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Winter in Nebraska

Remember how we said we wanted to get north out of the heat? Nebraska decided to help us out. 50s during the day and 40s at night, with a little rain, okay it poured, thrown in for good measure.  No, this isn’t normal Nebraska weather…they ordered it just for us!

To show we are true northerners, and know just what to do in chilly weather, we fired-up the woodstove!

Only a northerner would travel with a wood stove attachment!
Darrin tending the fire.
And me slaving over the hot stove preparing dinner. Check out my pretty purple curtains!

Those of you who grew up camping in state parks, know what we mean when we say we did the “Sunday wood clean-up after all the weekenders left”, so the heat from the woodstove was 100% free.

 

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The Braudis Breakfast

We were cooking breakfast this morning and Darrin said “Hey, it looks like we are having a Braudis Breakfast!”.

I said “What’s that?”.

Apparently, a Braudis Breakfast is a 3 course meal that Darrin and his winter camping buds look forward to when planning their January forays into the wild. Chris Braudis takes the breakfast cooking reins and Mike and Darrin sit back and enjoy the good eatings.

In this case, I am sitting back and enjoying Darrin whipping me up a delightful breakfast, so I guess he is Chris and I’ll do my best to imitate Mike!

Here are some pics of Darrin cooking, notice our really cool kitchen set-up!

Darrin concentrating over the stove, which sits on a drop down shelf attached to the backdoor. Behind him is our kitchen drawers and the fridge.
And viola…The Braudis Breakfast! Yum!
Sorry Bill🙄😁
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Home below the range

Today, Darrin installed our cook counter and new gas range.

Back door cook counter

On the inside of the back door of the Land Rover he added a drop down shelf. This will be our counter and our stove.

Just inside of the back door will be the fridge (big empty spot) and drawers (far left)for pots, dishes, food, etc. And they double as steps up into the roof top tent.  I’ll post better pictures of those later.

Cook stove

The cool thing about our new counter is the laminate is a leftover piece from when we redid our kitchen.

A little piece of home traveling with us