Monday, July 26, 2010

Campfire #2

I'm a "Wise" kid. That is, I went to Camp Wise, the JCC camp here in NE Ohio, and I learned the proper way to build a real campfire. No lighter fluid for me!

Fist, I walk around the grounds collecting dead wood (which is hard to find because our groundskeepers do a pretty good job). Then I sort it into three piles - tinder, kindling and fuel. (I don't collect the fuel. That's the big stuff and we buy most of that.) I make an "A" frame with two of the pieces of fuel, and gently lay some tinder at the inside point of the A.
Here I am about to light my famous
"One Match Fire."




We sing songs, tell stories and, of course,
roast marshmallows.