Drinking Terrible -- The Campfire Girl -- featuring a sleepy goat

@cinoclav yeah, I should probably get one of those. Even if I only use it every decade… it would rescue some moments from Peril!

@UncleVinny I was anxiously awaiting the moment you burnt your finger.

@cinoclav I am just looking forward to PORN month!

@mfladd you could always take another turn at goat.

@djslack
meh
rocket fuel

@djslack
Why not just use a blow torch?

With respect to fire I can tell you that throwing diesel on the wood in a wood burning stove to start it up is not a good idea. You will watch your stove start to dance across the room and hold your fingers crossed that the chimney pipe does not disconnect… Chimney fires aren’t especially fun either. We were running a creosote still at an outside right angle bend (burning not quite dried long enough pine - oops).

@Kidsandliz Blowtorch won’t fire up alcohol that’s not very flammable.

Also Diesel is a brand of grain alcohol, not actual diesel fuel.

@djslack Well now you have evidence that I don’t drink and know nothing (grin)

@Kidsandliz I don’t think I’d want to throw either in a woodburning stove

@djslack It is pretty spectacular when you set up such a draft in there and the thing chugs and “walks” on the floor. Kind of scary actually because to kill the fire you cut off the air and it gets worse before it gets better. If it walks too far the stove pipe from the stove to the chimney gets pulled loose and then you are out of luck with smoke and heat and a big mess and no way to put it out.

We were young and dumb when we did that. Especially since that was our solution to burning frozen wood - which will put a fire out due to how cold it is so that is why put diesel on the wood prior to throwing it in the fire (umm yeah don’t want to do that the other way round). Was in NW Ontario where it was 40-60 below out at night, too cold for diesel generators to work so no electricity, no heat except wood, no running water.

We also had a tray hanging from the chimney and a ladder on the side of the cabin for chimney fires. When you burn soft wood with lots of sap and it hasn’t dried long enough there is plenty of creosote in the smoke and that is really flammable. It is also a poisonous to humans wood preservative; we filled a #10 can a day of the stuff at the elbow bend, the rest went up the chimney. Actually pretty surprising we all lived to tell the tale. Proof the frontal lobes don’t finish developing until about 30 LOL.

Even propane could be problematic if the tank was too low or the temps were much below -40 (some lights and the kitchen stove were propane; the rest of the lights were kerosene which hardly give off any light - maybe 10 watts).

So now I am really off the topic of making something to drink. Oops.

@Kidsandliz wow. I’m glad I live in the south, I have no interest in being where it’s too cold for wood to burn.

To get it back on track, I reread your first post and thought you might have been asking why not just try to drink a blowtorch. It would probably be comparable in smoothness and might make for a better story.

@djslack Umm well considering I missed the point of your post due to ignorance… drinking a blowtorch… would that be a lit one? Right? So you can then blame the goat?

@djslack @Kidsandliz I did a little research on flambé stuff before trying this, and they said I could get away with a 55% alcohol float and a big lighter. But if I had it to do over again I’d’ve sprung for a mini-bottle of 180 proof and one of those nifty long-necked lighters. Alas! There’s no returning to my days of innocence, and the Yangtze does not flow backwards, etc. etc. etc.

@UncleVinny but the Tonle Sap River in Cambodia does flow backwards during the rainy season (forced to do so by the Mekong River)… so maybe there is hope?

@kdemo colorized kate!

I went back to sleep with nary a problem. I may someday tangle again with 5-hour energy, but I think it’s too indecorous to include in my nighttime routine. Mango-persimmon, or whatever!? So gauche.

@kdemo @UncleVinny

Pretty sure The African Queen was shot in color.

If you have not seen it, it’s rather wonderful.

@f00l @kdemo whoa nelly!? I would have bet cash money that it was in B/W. Goes to show how little I know. Tangential lyric connection…

Anyhoo, I saw it long ago, probably would be good to rewatch.

But a theme with me lately is that I need to rewatch less and see more stuff for the first time. Like…I’ve never seen Grapes of Wrath, and I bet it’s amazing. (I’ve read the book, at least, so I got that goin for me.)

Also… you know the Kate movie I really really want to resee? How could you know? So I’ll just tell you: A Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Holy Freakin Flock of Sheep, neighbor, now that’s a movie.

@kdemo @UncleVinny

I think I saw that one. I think it was awesome.

@f00l @kdemo yes! In the “intense like chewing on pavement” sense of awesome.

@f00l @UncleVinny
The poster is worthy of a trashy romance novel lol.

I’ve seen the movie a couple of times, it is wonderful.

@UncleVinny - And 5 Hour Energy at night? This goat may wish to reconsider that bedtime protocol.

@matthew

@RiotDemon that would have been macho, and macho is not my bag. Woulda been more entertaining, tho!

@elimanningface Most bars are actually very bright- the bars that you go into are dimly lit so you don’t notice us taking notes on your behavior. I think this was dark in the hope that we’d see blue fire.

P.S. Great job!