Since christmas covid has been running through my family as well. Some family in law members had the typical no smell/taste symptoms, mother in law is quite sick and if it gets worse we will get medical help.
And since last week it reached also us, both my wife and I are tested positive.
Wife is feeling sick, does not smell anything and gets dizzy occasionally + feeling for throwing up.
Me and my boy are 100% healthy, no symptoms at all.
But due to this my boy is not in kindergarten anymore for the next 15 days.
So what do we do.. Recently we had a lot of snow so we build ourselves a "igloo/quinzee" kinda thing, like we do almost each year.
In version 1 we slept, but it was quite tight, so next day we expanded it to version 2.
Now it is a quite comfy 2.5 person place, plus a side igloo for our dog. (he will never fit in this, but my son insisted on it and the idea is nice)
Tonight another night in the igloo, it will be -4c / 24.8f and upcoming weekend it should even be around -10c / 14f.
Since my boy is almost 5 years old, i have to make sure everything goes perfect and he is not cold.
So for me it is a nice way of showing him that every season is great to go outside, and putting my winter gear to use.
(I had 2 hikes on snowshoes planned, but all got cancelled due to me being in quarantine now)
These days our activities is playing in the snow, fill every bucket and wheelbarrow with water so it freezes overnight and then he likes to play with the ice, and so on.
Other than that I made a fishing rod rack for my rods. After years of standing in corners they have finally their own dedicated place :-)
Some axe restores (the Hults Bruk has become my absolute favorite user)
Made some awls, from spalted birch and birch bark as well.
And some other stuff not really outdoors related.
And a couple of pics:
Igloo v1
Igloo v1
Igloo v1
Igloo v2
Fishing rod rack
Awl with spalted birch and stacked birch bark.
Hults Bruk restore, used the original handle and metal wedge
New handle was needed, old one was broken. Burned it a bit for looks.
Left the Ochsenkopf Iltis from above
Middle, Dutch modded axe with new handle, mixed the blo with some green food coloring, but did not work out great.
Right, Czech modded axe with new handle, mixed the blo with some red food coloring, worked out great.
Still in the planning is to make:
- 2 new hammocks, 1 with and 1 without bugnet.
- haversack kit
- bedroll kit
For those 2 projects I still need to gather a bit more info and do some reading up.
And if I get really bored, I still have about 120 or so axes that needs some serious tlc :-)
So, outdoors related, what keeps you guys busy these days ?
