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Journal of the Yurt 6

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morning guys

about 5:30 I get this fire stuffed up it is pretty cold right now so fire stuff nothing today started here well guys time to do some laundry yeah got my bucket here again same bucket I'm peeing in but I'm not pooping in any way I'm gonna get in this fire pit real quick and loaded it up earlier so I'm gonna start it think what I'm going to do is not start it yet I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get here get some of these ashes out of here I don't need a whole lot for this just a few get all the big chunks out and just leave some ashes in there Mary

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gather up my clothes we're headed for the creek bells stay with me [Music]

okay guys so I've got my bucket here my laundry a couple pairs of socks or a pair of socks and my slow John I'm going to do these one at time here stuff the others off to the side and I should use hot water with these ashes but I don't want to take the time to make a bunch of hot water right now so I'm just going to give these things a quick wash by filling this up with hash water about halfway put the clothing in put my lid on and agitate this is mine go Billy washing machine

what I'll do is I'll take each piece out individually because I'm going to rinse them after the fact I'm just going to set this right down here to the water where we'll float away put my socks in and do the same thing looking down them dirty see little more water

put another where in like I said this is down-and-dirty guys it's not perfect by any means but we're going to be a whole lot cleaner than you or when you're done let that lye water out then you can bring each individual piece over here Roger good spot like this

your rinse them out real easy right here scrub a little bit [Music]

then you got to bring them out of course expected to everdry just going to get cold quick doing this this waters about 40 degrees

make sure you got all the water out your bucket why don't put them back in there and as you just do till the water runs clean once that water's running clean we'll call it good all right with a shirt yeah

nice cool prints fall right here looking out real good [Music]

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cheery wear waterproof boots to go stand in the falls what you're doing this right

he's back your get him hung up okay guys now it's just a matter of stringing the clothes line in here which I did with a piece of Bank line here and it's just temporary it's not even tie it off but what has to happen now is I'm going to get this stove stoked up real good so that this stuff will dry before 9:00 then you got to do stuff like this in a cold weather environment you want to get it done early in the day so you can baby set that fire babysit those clothes till they get dry because you're going to want this wool underwear at night if it's only set you got then you better get them dry or you're going to be cold one you

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