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To get rid of them once and for all is to mix a glass of alcohol,
half an ounce of spirits of turpentine and half an ounce of
powdered camphor. Rub this preparation everywhere there are
bedbugs and they will disappear completely.
This will keep the eggs fresh for months. If you want to keep
them for more than a year, place the eggs in earthware crock &
cover them with a 10% lime solution. Cover tightly to keep the
air out and store in the wine cellar.
TO FILE OR NOT:
Make sure that File trick is in your survival kit for its many uses,
sharpening bones and wood etc. a small one used by women in knife
shape would do it, and maybe it can be sharpened in 2 side to make
a surgeon or butcher knife to check it out.**
On top of the BBQ put a big juice tin can which you have removed
the top and bottom it will act as funnel or chimney and get your
fire going hot a lot quick-her for her and you too!
FIRE STARTERS:
For all you campers who are environmentally conscious, here are
instructions for the ugliest but the absolute best fire starters.
Use old paper egg cartons, stuff till full with dryer lint (you
know, the greyish blue stuff), then melt old candles and pour wax
over.
Leave to cool and dry and then rip the little cups apart. You
have 12 fire-starters that will help you light any type of wood.
Just throw one in and light the edge. Told you they were ugly!!
Not a good gift.
HOME REMEDY:
So if you cut yourself even deeply and you see between some roots
etc. a big web pick them up with a stick and roll them into a
ball and pack them into the wound with a tampon of shirt.
Here in N. America or wherever you can find it, when you cut
yourself you could use that trick too but also use the "**sapin
baumier" to stick or stitch your wound together and it heals
quite faster than anything else.
They heard the soundless movements of animals and miles away they
heard the restlessness of the buffalo and the distant hoof-beats
of a rider.
Take a lot of egg whites beaten with oil and finely grated
potatoes. The egg whites are applied very gently to the injured
area and reapplied each time the preparation dries. After this,
plasters made of grated raw potatoes should be applied to reduce
the inflammation and relieve the pain.
SCARRING PREVENTION:
The best remedy is the bark of the Tepezcohite **pix needed tree,
which must be placed on the burned area. NB Unfortunately the how
to proceed is missing, maybe someone could tell us more, this
recipe came from the Mexico area, so maybe some good brujo could
help.
ONION TO SLEEP:
Cutting an onion, leaving it open on the table for 1/2 hour, then
smelling for a minute will put you to sleep in a jiffy.
Plastic rope can be used for shoes laces, insuring you to have at
all times a rope for many usage, tying up whatever you want, from
hooks to bones to tent etc., as fishing line or as snares etc.
Beside burning and giving a high heat, the rope does not rot and
it can be unravelled to make longer rope as need comes along.
So MAKE SURE you have it with you, in your survival kit and
specially replacing your normal hiking boot laces, use a yellow
colour one so that it can also be used as markers on a trail.
Goretex helps to keep you dry. Thinsulate will keep you warm when
you are dry, but ONLY WOOL will keep you warm when you are soaking wet.
The MOST SERIOUS DANGER from the snow it its BRIGHTNESS, which
causes a debilitating -if temporary- affliction known as "snow
blindness" especially in bright sunlight.
HOT SHELTERS:
COLD SHELTERS:
WINTER BEDS:
These dead trunks are easy to break off and several of them laid
side by side on the snow with a thick covering of pine boughs
will provide as much insulation from the ground as possible.
PERFORMANCE:
Place your body between the reflector and the fire. Direct heat
from the flames will warm the portion of you body facing the fire
while reflected heat from behind will warm the other side.
(The principle is the same as that used in convection oven). For
maximum heat reflection, place reflectors on 3 or 4 sides of the
fire. Additional reflectors can be made from a dense latticework
of branches stood on end to form a wall and stationed a minimum
of 4 feet from the flames.
STENCH OFF:
Rough riders in Calgary stampede shows are now more and more
wearing a new protection vest against horses and bull kicks which
has proven itself as extremely effective, the thing to remember
is that it must be done in conjunction with an under padding made
of foam same type we see for sleeping bush mattress. ***** To
investigate further.
But the combination of both does the trick and you can get in
tough situation with hardly a bruise but to your pride.