A Survivalists Tale by James Rafferty

Author:James Rafferty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Contemporary, Action & Adventure, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Wolfyn Publishers
Published: 2013-05-28T06:00:00+00:00

The big pit saw was not as hard as they thought it would be, once you got the hang of it and only cut on the pull not push, we broke two blades until people got the hang of that. One person on top and the other in the pit getting covered with sawdust, others were making charcoal piles that had to be watched all the time.

Amanda and Jess were brilliant at producing charcoal, I admit was rubbish, I was lucky if I got fifty percent. They got over ninety percent, they could keep the blacksmith supplied no problems. Others would be shaping the wood for the cabins; it always amazed me how lucky I had been with my team. Just before our second winter we had all our cabins finished and moved in, we had this winter to learn how to now make really good furniture, for we now had a lathe, chisels, saws, box planes, nails and hammers. Everything to make nice chairs, tables and cupboards, Jack even volunteered to make sun baked tiles, with a waterproof slick he had worked out, while doing pots. Every day was full and when the weather was bad we done all the indoor jobs, life was so good, we had birthday parties and crop parties everything was going so fast. We were well into our third year when we had a disaster with the crops; the weather turned bad a hurricane came early out of nowhere, rather than let it get us down. We just re-planted the veg and looked for wild substitutes, which we had gotten our type of veg from any way, the wild wasn’t as great as our ones were for ours didn’t have competition, but it meant we wouldn’t starve either. By the third year, we were like a small village, rather than survivalists, Jack had even started making barrels for long term storage. We had a try at glass but didn’t seem to have the right sand or something, it never worked. We had made a couple of dugout canoes and used them for fishing with nets, we were however running out of new things to challenge us, never before had anyone gone this far under controlled conditions, so it was pretty amazing. However, it was getting to the team now; we had not only survived but were flourishing. Therefore, it was starting to mentally bring them down, not for the reasons you would think, it was a case of the team wanted to stay here and bring their families here to live. It really was a quiet and peaceful life style.

We even had our first indoor metal baths, pure luxury, and soap also, Mike made some nice smelling shampoo, it was green but done the job very well indeed. We still done a lot of cooking outdoors sharing the work and sitting down to fantastic meals under the stars at times, I wondered what the world must have thought while looking in on these people who were supposed to be having a hard time of it.

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