A couple of days ago a sign appeared at the ‘Y’ from Libby Creek Rd to Black Pine Lake Rd with some weird name like Zindzandoi with an arrow pointing up Libby Creek Road.
Later that day I was looking on line at calendar things about stuff going on in the area and discovered that it is really Saskatoon Circle and they are having a four day primitive skills workshop. saskatooncircle.blogspot.com
I sent an email and signed up. Drove to the end of the road up Smith Canyon this evening for the intro pot luck. I took pasta salad.
The main event seemed to be a road kill venison. Serious. A first for me. Quite tasty. Venison is an old like of mine but this was a first for road kill... The real deal starts tomorrow. Where among other things they are going to tan the hide.
Many people in buck skin clothing and eating (other than road kill and pasta salad) some interesting wild greens and blooms salad, and the required amount of brown rice. I’m here to tell you. It does not matter how old or how young a batch of hippies happen to be, there will be brown rice.
Very nice time around the fire, introducing ourselves and then introducing each other. Making up what you didn’t know. Some were hysterical. I mentioned that I am a recent refugee from corporate America and am currently homeless.
They honest to for goodness real started the fire with a stick. You know, rubbing a stick fast between your hands etc. Took two people but it worked.
A young kid named Zach, slightly too old to be my grandchild walked me back to my car as I didn’t have a flash light.
In addition to (no doubt more) brown rice and tanning tomorrow should include classes in herbal medicine, basket making, sandal making, felting, cording (using roots and possibly some of the road kill, I heard a comment about sinew for cording which I tried to ignore) primitive shelters, traditional foods and medicine. On and on…
Beautiful setting. Huge meadow surrounded by foothills.
A couple named Lynx and Rico brought three horses. I’m making friends with them. (The horses in particular) And Zach.
I got a pedicure this morning, had the radiator flushed on the White Ghost at noon and road kill for dinner. I think this is having a full life.
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