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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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 Posted - Jun 03 2008 : 06:05:42 AM
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I don't know if this is an old trick that everyone knows, but it seemed like a miracle to me when my husband thought of it on our camping trip last week. So let me brag on him a little, even if you've heard this before.
We don't own a lantern, just flashlights. It was after dark when we pulled into most of our campgrounds and had to pitch the tent and cook a meal. It was so frustrating trying to set up the stove and get out dishes and food with a flashlight in one hand and a narrow beam of light.
So here's the trick: if you have a flashlight and a large clear water container (we had a gallon milk jug), just set the jug on the flat surface that you are cooking on and set the flashlight up against it so that the beam is shining through the jug. The water diffuses the light and your jug gives off a cozy glow that illuminates a 2-3 foot radius. Just enough light to cook and eat by, hands free. |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - Jun 03 2008 : 07:23:51 AM
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very clever!!!!!!!!!
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller
http://www.thebodyshopathome.com/web/dcole1 |
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Jun 03 2008 : 10:46:03 AM
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Your DH deservers some bragging! What a great idea! My Dad discovered a few years ago during a power outage that shining the flashlight right at the big white refrigerator in their kitchen bathed the whole room with light.
Jo
"Wish I had time to work with herbs all day!" |
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JoyIowa
True Blue Farmgirl
273 Posts
Joy
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Posted - Dec 08 2012 : 2:49:55 PM
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Another variation of this is to strap a headlamp style flashlight backwards onto the milk jug so the light shines through the milk jug!
Have fun!
If it's not illegal, unsafe, or immoral, why not try anything once? Who knows? You may come back for a second helping! |
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Katlady93
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
Charlotte
Denmark
SC
USA
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Posted - Dec 09 2012 : 07:56:13 AM
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clever, we have set up camp by the headlights once, but i like this idea a lot better.
Some dreams are worth the risk it takes to make them real.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footsteps on the moon. |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17025 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Jan 14 2013 : 11:15:18 PM
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I just saw this on Pintrest as well on one of the Camping FB sites I visit... {attach a headlamp style flashlight or flashlight backwards onto the milk jug so the light shines through the milk jug} it will illuminate/diffuse the light... what a great idea.
Another trick is to use those $1 stick in the ground Solar lights,,, we put them in a cluster...to create more light... you can also pop the top part off and put a couple in a large glass jar to give off more light.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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Edited by - katmom on Jan 14 2013 11:17:24 PM |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13569 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Make do camping lantern
