Wilderness Survival Part 2

I have made fire! – Tom Hanks, Castaway   As I mentioned in the previous post, at the beginning of August, I attended the California Survival School Core Skills class.  What a fantastic day!  We started with creating shelter and finding/sanitizing water, then we moved on to finding simple foods (small game hunting is a…

Wilderness Survival Part 1

People live in each other’s shelter – Irish proverb On Saturday, August 9, I had the most incredible day. I spent five hours with California Survival School in the Saratoga woods. I wasn’t sure what to expect before going up there, but the day was better than what I had imagined. Anyone who watches Survivor…

An Unseen Resident – Part 8

Note:  This is a re-posting of #8 since there was a permalink error. As always, if you’re new to this blog or it’s been a while, please read the previous Unseen Resident blogs since they (mostly) follow what has happened in our house in chronological order. #1  #2  #3  #4  #5  #6  #6A  #7 October…

Unseen Resident Part 9

On August 3, Janice and I gave a presentation to the Bay Area Ghost Hunters group about the experiences we’ve been having in our house.  I promised them that I would not post this blog until after that meeting so that they would be the first to hear/see the amazing evidence we got at our…