Fight to Survive: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller (After the Outbreak Book 1) by Bowman Dave

Author:Bowman, Dave [Bowman, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

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September 8

Jessa and Liz stood in the tool shed, grabbing what they would need for the day's projects.

"Can you hand me that shovel?" Liz asked, pointing.

"That's a spade," Jessa said, lowering the tool from its hook on the wall.

Jessa had been teaching Liz about the various tools and what they were used for. At first she had been a little impatient with Liz's ignorance of the subject, but Jessa had to admit that Liz was a hard worker and was eager to learn. Before long, she would know how to use the tools better than any other city slicker.

"It's kind of nice to be working outside, isn't it?" Liz asked as they grabbed their tools and closed the shed door.

"Wait till you've been digging all day in the hot sun," Jessa said, smiling.

"Yeah, I know it's going to be hard work," Liz said. "But it's different than working in the city where you earn money to pay for someone else to grow your food. Here, you're working to grow or hunt food to eat and have clean water to drink. It's more direct, more real, you know?"

"Exactly," said Jessa. "That's why I went to work on the wilderness crew. It's not the same as homesteading, but it's outdoor work you do with your hands. Honest work, my grandmother always called it. I think I'd go crazy working at a desk all day."

"Well, I guess that won't really be an option for any of us anymore," Liz said. Although she liked living and working at the lodge, it was bittersweet. She was glad to have left the city, but she still felt grief over losing the old way of life.

Liz got to learn some knife skills while Jessa taught her to fashion rough stakes out of fallen branches. She and Mia took the stakes, along with sheets of black plastic, and began to stake down the sheets where the garden beds would go. The hot sun would bake the weeds underneath the plastic, killing them before they planted their fall garden.

While Liz was busy working on the gardens, Jessa began work on a primitive smokehouse for preserving meat and fish. She cut down a few large, green saplings and de-leafed them. She stood the poles up in a tripod, lashing them together with cordage. Then she secured some smaller poles in between the poles of the tripod, and started to build a drying rack where they would lay strips of meat to smoke.

She planned to build at least three or four drying racks, and then construct a small fire pit out of rocks underneath. The smoke from the long-burning fire would keep insects away from the drying meat. The heat from the fire and the sun, in addition to the circulating air, would preserve the meat. Once they had a nice deerskin, they could wrap it around the structure to keep the smoke moving in a funnel over the meat, which would especially be useful on windy days.

The structure was starting to look pretty good, and she hoped the guys would bring home some venison.

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