Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: December 1st, 2025
  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Sean Aloysius O'Brien would be proudEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Isn’t that also known as Turkish Coffee?

    Basically just boiling coffee grounds, then let it all settle and you drink the liquid at top and leave the muddy stuff at the bottom.

    I’ve done lots of camping when I was younger. My family is Indigenous Canadian and we were affected by the English historically … so our hot drink of choice is orange pekoe tea. Same thing, you boil it until it steeps. My parents came from a time when they used to buy it as loose ground tea that made a mess. In my time, it all came in tea bags so it was easy to heat, steep, pour and collect. We also liked to boil multiple tea bags for about 30 seconds … this speeds up the steeping process and makes a strong bitter dark liquid that is almost like coffee.

    Fun fact … in the winter time, people used to use the spent hot tea bags from their tea to melt and wipe off the ice from the sled runners. It melted off the chunks of the ice and smoothed out any liquid to make a new shiny solid ice layer to make your runners slippery smooth again.

  • Ininewcrow@piefed.catoTenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•MFW I see the Colorado weather todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    We have similar worries here in northern Ontario. The forests here basically lie in or are surrounded by wet swamps. But all that water is dependent on what happens in the winter and the snow. If we don’t get enough snow during the winter, there won’t be enough run off all spring and into the summer to keep the swamps wet … if the swamps aren’t wet enough, it dries out the forest … dry forest equals forest fires.

    The same thing happens with the type of winter … we could have lots of snow but warm periods in the winter time that melts things and keeps the snow pack down … or spring arrives too early and too hot, melts everything too fast and leaves the forests dry by summer time.

    We always have water up here but it only takes a small dip in snow accumulation and spring run off to dry out the forest sufficiently and create the conditions for forest fires. We approached those levels for the past few summers and squeezed by without major fires but every year that tipping point gets closer and closer.

    Short answer is … as global warming keeps changing weather patterns … even though we still get freezing cold winters up here … every year, we’re in high danger of massive forest fires that will probably happen here in the coming decades. Once our forests dry out, we’re going to produce some of worst smoke events similar to what happened in 2023 and probably worse.

    Take a nice deep breathe of fresh country air … and do it as often as you can … we might not have that luxury in the coming decades. :(