Seam Stress

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I figured it out. Everyone thinks it's the occupation of women sewing. Well I think anyone who sews seams has stress. As it happens, my wife is the one occupied with the sewing.
I can do it, I have done it, so I sew so so. (yes, I positioned myself to be able to type that, but it's true.) With the recent addition of a 90.00 sewing machine, Heather has probably spent around 20 hours altering clothing, making food bags, or 2 grams of fabric stuff sacks that will help us stay better organized on our hike by putting like items together.

This morning's break from some sewing was research on how to properly tie your food in a tree so little furry creatures aren't able to chew through your food bag or large furry creatures aren't able to rip it open, bear. Fortunately, bear, for the most part, don't want anything to do with humans, but there is this excellent training video available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dfd18Zfv2U

We opted for using a food bag hanging in the tree as the lightest option. A bear resistant food container is not only heavier, it is somewhat awkward to fit it in your backpack with everything else. Besides, we get the daily challenge of putting a rock in the bag we use for the tent stakes, with a rope tied to it, to throw the rope over a tree limb, to hang our food high enough above ground for the night. Maybe we'll be the only ones that eats our food for the entire trip..that's the challenge.

It's not all work, while we continue to get ready for being dropped off at the trail. Since we weren't going to use a bear resistant food container we might as well see how good they were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn7oayAaf4k