Natural Insulation Bed/Wool Blanket Overnight

My usual romping grounds, not at the normal place I go. I've walked in about four kilometers and there's a couple ponds out that way. So the reason I'm here is because I'm gonna do an overnighter and I'm gonna do a natural insulation bed and use a wool blanket for warmth as well as a fire. So the reason I chose this place, if I can just show you, is because of all the grasses here, so I can use as a natural insulation bed. We don't have pines and spruces and whatnot, so I've got a bunch of grasses there And if you look, go to 360, or sorry, 180 from there. There's some Phragmites off in the distance. Not much, but it'll help to make the insulation bed. That's coming along. I'm gonna wrap my space blanket or my emergency blanket over top of it, a little burrito there. What I do need to do is add some more insulation up this part, because it's higher in the middle and my head's gonna slope down, and that's not gonna be comfortable. So as it is, it's pretty lofty, good six inches maybe in the middle. It is too wide in the middle, I gotta even it out some. Well, this is gonna be my setup for tonight. I've got my Italian wool blanket down, my emergency blanket, a bunch of grasses and reeds in there. I think most of it's Queen Anne's lace and some goldenrod. Without a tarp tonight, the weatherman said that there's zero chance of rain, and you know those guys are always right, so hopefully they are this time. But it's about 7.30, I think, yep, 7.40, and all I have left to do is clear the spot for a fire in front and cut a bunch of firewood. So, that should be fun. Found ash is gonna make for, Scout keeps stealing my firewood, leave it. Not for you, leave it, leave it, Scout. Oh, that's good, thanks, bud. So that's back where I'm camped right there. My fire's gonna be in front. We got a nice little hill there. And then behind me, we got this dead ash, which I'm using for firewood. And if I walk through this little bit of shrub, shrubbery it's actually a farmer field on the other side surprisingly enough that's all that my county is is farm field and over here there's more phragmites but what I'm really interested in is grabbing some cattail and cattail is pretty uncommon now that the phragmites is here it's pretty much taken over taking all over everywhere the cattail has been but over here for some reason there's still some so come on the farmers gonna shoot you so there's some cattail and you can bet I'm gonna harvest some of that for my fire later on it's really nice out and it's supposed to get down to about 15 degrees Celsius 15 or 12 I can't remember degrees Celsius I don't know what that is in that crazy American temperature though probably like 80 degrees or something and it's perfect it's not wet or anything grab a few of these bad boys and get my fur going real good I'm here at the pond and I got my little hobo fishing kit see if I can catch myself some dinner well fishing was a failure and might have been because I didn't use a real worm. No, stay up here. Where are you going? But that's all right. It just goes to show you this is the same spot I came the other day and I caught a fish in about 10 minutes in my hobo fishing kit. Let's go. No, no, no. Up, up, up, up. Stay up here. Trying to go in that mucky water. No, stay up here. Crazy dog. Site selection is a big thing. I picked this spot because there's a lot of grass and reeds around so I can use for my insulation bed but the downside is that there's no real firewood around there is some there was that ash that I was looking at over there and I've really collected as much firewood as I can get that's all dead seasoned ash there and it's a nice pile but barely any of the sticks are big thick rounds so this is probably the thickest one there and it's only about three inches if I'm lucky across so like I said really tonight it's not going to get down too cold but uh if it did I might need to be in a different place and it's give and take right I I don't have I don't have the the reeds and the cattails and all that stuff in the woods but then I have the wood so really it's it's it's kind of difficult I guess you could always make a a raised bed just out of logs that That would work too. Not very comfortable I imagine though. It's just past 9 now. As you can see we're losing light. Start up the fire and keep it small for a while. Try to conserve my fuel. I got it about a step away. A good step away from my bed roll there. I cleared all the dry debris out of the way. There's still a little bit of green vegetation. But what are you going to do? That's not the biggest deal in the world. I got these. These are cattails. So I got three of them because they are a flash tinder. try and use just the cattail. I might add a little bit of shavings after to see how it goes the greatest I guess. All I got planned for the rest of the night is just relax. I brought a book Day by Day Armageddon Beyond Exile. It's the second part of the two-part series. It's a good book. So I'm going to read about zombies while I'm sleeping alone in the woods. I think a good idea. I got some rice on there. I was hoping to have some fish with it but the dog wasn't really cooperating and i couldn't catch a fish on a fake lure so rice it is i got some oatmeal and whatnot to tide me over if i get real hungry too but i had a nice supper before i came out so it's no big deal rice it was actually pretty good brought some seasoning and uh and some uh olive oil and it really helped a lot nice fire it's good night it's my birthday tomorrow and uh i really just wanted to spend the night out with me and the dog so tomorrow i'll do birthday things with the family and whatnot but tonight is for me well it's four in the morning uh start packing up pretty soon and get out of here stay warm didn't stay comfortable i miss my bed thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed it