[quote author=jmcclung11 link=topic=1989.msg17470#msg17470 date=1350526167]
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Can I quote that?  😀

See you tomorrow, Matt. I'm bringing Fire Captain Jim's RV NiteLites - put them in the van today - and also donating a Halloween basket of some goodies and will bring them over to your site. Also have Li'l Smokies in BBQ sauce for Friday. Hope the rain is gone by Friday evening!

Not only did it not rain, but the whole weekend was beautiful. The Aligator Warrior Festival was interesting and a good day's outing. The reenactment was fun (and funny - only one guy "died" and it looked like he just got tired) and the "fire sticks" shooting in the woods by both the "Seminoles" and "soldiers and farmers" were loud and exciting. Louder still was the canon! Lots of smoke, yelling "orders" to the troops, Indians whooping and hiding behind trees -- all to the delight and enjoyment of about 150 spectators. The spectators got a big thrill before the battle began when an innocent rat snake decided it better high tail out of the battleground via the spectator line.  :dance:  There was also a beautiful Native American Indian Dog on leash who was very calm but did get pretty worried when the canon and rifles started blasting. He did much better than the 10-yr. old crying girl who got scared and had to be brought back to the "Indian village" by her mom. The village was interesting with the reenactors in full costume, dancing and playing drums, selling their wares, and demonstrating (and selling) their crafts. There were food vendors out front of the village, and we skipped a camp lunch and bought some delicious BBQ ribs and fried fish before heading back to the dancing circle.

We found an interesting way to make an "oak cross" fire which we have yet to try to replicate. You use 4 oak logs of approximately the same size to make a fire and put them in a cross shape with a hole in the center. Fill the hole with hot coals and regulate the temperature of the fire by moving the 4 logs in or out. The man demo'ing this technique (which was used by all the reenactors) had just boiled a pot of water on the log circle formed over the hot coals and then moved the pot off to a side log on the cross. Then he put another cooking pot over the coals and repeated. He said he could keep all the pots hot because the radiant heat from the cooking pot would keep everything ready to eat. I guess it was the precursor to the Coleman campstove. ;D

Same principle, 01, but the logs do not stand on end but rather flat in a cross pattern. The heat is adjusted by moving the logs in and out of the center.