Closing Blog Post
A lot of great memories were made while doing Woodsmoke
Woodcraft School. It was a real privilege to mentor the youth that we mentored and to do the other related camps and activities during those years.
I was, in all the doing, personally challenged to keep learning, growing, and
practicing. I always felt that I was the one that benefited the most. I still
feel that way.
Those were some terrific years!
We had some great classes and enjoyed some great camps doing
the Woodsmoke Woodcraft School. I find myself often looking back over those
files of photos that were taken during those classes and camps.
Life has changed a lot for Shirli and me the past couple of years.
Part of it has to do with a life changing geographical move
as part of our retirement plans. After all those years living on the edge of
what Shirli and I referred to as the ruburbs … it was no longer an area that
could be called rural and it had not yet developed to the point that it could
be considered suburbs … we moved to the woods and made our home in a little 12’
x 28’ cabin tucked into the shade of oaks, pines, sweetgums, blackgums and the
other stuff that makes these lower Alabama coastal plain woods what they are.
Woodsmoke Woodcraft School is now a part of the past.
It was great while it lasted.
We’ve retired.
Retirement doesn’t mean we’ve stopped doing though. We’re
just doing things a bit differently now that we are retired. We’ve even recently taken
on a small group of youth that we meet with once a month mentoring them in basic
outdoor skills. It's going to be another fun journey with them as they learn and develop these outdoor skills.
You can still follow our doings if you’d like.
You can follow our journey to this little cabin in the woods
at the following link.
You can also follow our outdoor doings at
A third option is via our David Kralik Outdoors YouTube
channel.
Shirli and I had a terrific spring camping tour and are
basically hunkered down waiting on this Deep South summer heat and humidity to break
so we can hit the camping trail again in the fall.
We hope you will follow along. And, who knows, maybe we'll cross paths and share a camp somewhere one day.
