LIKE MOTHER, LIKE SON
Me, age 30: ”Here you go.” Camp instructor, age 18: ”Thanks, mom.” //
”I am not your mother, even if that could be just possible.” //
”Like, biologically possible, not socially acceptable.” //
”Well, that’s just like me: biologically possible, not socially acceptable.”
AUTUMN HIKE, PART 2/2
”It sure was windy and rainy last night.” ”The tent seems to have survived.” //
”Listen, fellows…” //
”…it wasn’t just raining last night.”
”Shall we continue?” ”Excuse me?” //
”Nothing, to Big Brother… I asked.” ”Okay.” //
”I mean, FROM Big Brother I asked. It’s so windy that I get prepositions mixed up!”
”There’s some sort of an orange cone in the hillside there.” ”What is it???” //
”Maybe it’s some kind of a weird tent?” ”Or some landmark?” ”A species of fungus new to science?” ”Could it be… an alien?” ”Or a spaceship?” ”Maybe it’s just a really big carrot?” //
What it actually is: A Kati wrapped inside a space blanket to shield herself from cold, wind and rain during a lunch break.
The first creek: ”Oh, what a beautiful creek!” //
”I want to immediately drink form it!” //
”I’ll take pictures!” //
”I love little fjeld creeks!” //
The 50th creek…
AUTUMN HIKE, PART 1/2
”I’d want to organize an autumn hike in the Kilpisjärvi area. I wonder if anyone would like to come along?” //
Big Brother: ”I could come.” Miko: ”Me, too.” ”Just the three of us? Well, it’s quality over quantity then!” //
Snowhorse came to help me with packing. ”I’d need to fit all this stuff… into this backpack.” ”I always hate this state of packing.” //
”And which order shall I put in all?” //
”I’d want so many things so that I can easily get to them, like the first aid kit, raincoat, dry socks, some food, the map and other stuff, too…” //
”You can’t pack everything on top!” ”I know, but I’d like to!”
Päätin tällä reissulla piirtää osan sarjiksista jo maastossa retken aikana, siksi nämä loput ovat vähän erinäköisiä kuin yleensä. Olen myös piirtänyt ne suoraan tussilla tai kuulakärkikynällä ilman luonnoksia, joten niistä puuttuu se vähäinenkin huolittelu, josta tavallisesti blogini lukijat saavat nauttia.
This time I decided to draw some of these comics already during the hike and that’s why the rest of these comics look a little different than usual. I’ve also drawn them directly with a marker or a ball-point pen without sketches so they lack the usual minimal effort that my readers normally get to enjoy.
On Kilpisjärvi: ”Let the hike begin!” //
”I guess it’s this path.” //
45 minutes later… ”It wasn’t this path.” ”Whoops, the very first path we followed was a wrong one. This is slightly embarrassing.” ”You don’t say?” //
”The view is nice, though.” ”Yeah, 6/5 would watch again.”
”It would be so nice if I found a white willow grouse feather!” //
”Oh, a white willow grouse feather!” //
”Trallalallallaa!” //
”Oh no, I dropped it!” //
”Oh no, the creek swallowed it!” ”Burb!” //
”Well, maybe it is the sacrifice I have to make so that the creek doesn’t swallow Big Brother!”
Surullista tässä riekonsulkajutussa oli se, että se tapahtui suunnilleen ensimmäisen kahden vaellustunnin aikana juuri kuten tässä sarjiksessa on kuvattu – enkä sen jälkeen enää löytänyt toista valkoista riekonsulkaa!
What’s sad about this willow grouse feather story is that it happened during the first two hours of our hike pretty much exactly as I’ve drawn it here – and I didn’t find another white willow grouse feather afterwards!
”It’s very annoying to walk in this wet mud…” //
”It might be drier further up the slope.” //
”!” //
”It’s over, muddy path! I have the high ground!”
Muistiin laitettakoon: ei kannata piirtää punaisella kynällä ilta-aikaan kun muut ovat jo nukkumassa ja sen takia pitää käyttää punaista otsalampun valoa ettei herätä muita. Punaisessa valossa punainen väri näkyy äärimmäisen huonosti, ja piirtäminen on todella hankalaa.
Note to self: it’s not a great idea to draw with a red pen in the evening when others are already asleep and you need to use a red light so you don’t wake them up. In red light you really can’t see the color red very well and drawing is extremely difficult.
POCKETS OF EQUALITY
”I went to buy trousers for hiking.” //
”And now I’m angry.” //
”First off because on the women’s side the colors were yet AGAIN pink and purple. Men’s trousers had more natural colors.” //
Secondly: the side pockets in women’s trousers were made ”inside” the trousers, whereas men’s were outside: You can barely fit a phone here… but everything fits here! //
”And thirdly, the design itself. I have properly wide hips so you’d think that women’s trousers would be the right size for me and men’s trousers too slim.” //
But no. Women’s trousers are made to be ”well fitting” which means very slim and emphasizing the woman’s curves. //
I found a fitting pair from the men’s side. ”Because they are supposed to be a bit too big and comfortable. And you use a belt to tighten them so that they fit.” //
”I mean, seriously: every hiker needs trousers that are comfortable and that have good, big pockets. And one’s gender doesn’t tell if one wants to camouflage oneself in the moss or not. Equality to trousers!” //
I went to the hike wearing trousers I bought from the ”men’s side”.
CLOTHING PROBLEMS
On a camp: ”Phew, it’s hot!” ”We wanna go swimming!” //
”Good night, instructors!” //
”I hope nobody minds if I sleep in just my underpants since it’s so warm.” ”By all means.” //
*Rumble!* //
”Now that’s quite the storm!” ”Should we go check the kids are alright?” //
”I’ll go. But where are all my clothes now?” //
”Never mind, I’ll just take my raincoat.” ”Tell us if you need any help there!” //
”I do hope everything’s okay! I really wouldn’t wanna move a tent wearing nothing but undies and a raincoat!”
PROPHECY
Summer Camp Fair: Fortuneteller! //
”Well, Peter, did you go see the fortuneteller?” ””Yes.” //
”And what did she tell you?” ”Well, that…” //
”I’ll get a new sister within the year.” //
*Plab* //
”There there…” ”No! Not another Rosie! Not another Rosie!!!” Rosie: >:(
SUPER POWER
”The others are on the next bus, it should be here in a moment.” //
”I think I’ll wait on the bank there.” //
…//
…//
”Hey, Kati is there!” //
”How long have you been there?” ”All the time. Apparently one turns invisible if one doesn’t move.”
LAST WORDS
”You ready?” ”I hope so…” //
”Here we go!” //
”This is a bad idea!” ”This is a BRILLIANT idea!” //
”And if we die now, those were my magnificent last words!” //
”No they weren’t, you spoke after them.” ”!” //
”This was a BRILLIANT idea!” ”Good! Now shut up and concentrate on steering!”
MOSQUITOES
”Damn, mosquitoes!” //
”And I don’t have a mosquito net. What would MacGyver do?” //
”Well, he’d of course take out the duct tape roll he’d brought along…” //
”…rip off some pieces with which he’d tape…” //
”…the hammock into a ’pea pod’ where mosquitoes won’t bother him.” //
”Hah. This actually works.” ”Darn.” //
This method is 100% MacGyver approved!
Eli ”Se suojaa varmaan hyvin myös hyttysiltä”
A.k.a ”I guess it’s pretty good against mosquitoes, too”
”I’d want a Clone Trooper armor.” //
”So that you could paint it in some cool way?” ”No, but to actually use it.” //
”You see, Clone Troopers wear the same armor on almost any planet. Only when it’s really, really cold the clones have some special gear. But they can even go to space in that armor!” //
”And since the armor itself probably isn’t that warm, the clones must have the best underwear in the galaxy!” ”Well… that is true!” //
”And I mean, I want the whole armor because it would be so handy on camps.” //
”Welcome to the camp. I’m Kati, your camp leader.”
The title of this post is a quote from The Clone Wars episode ”Rookies” where Captain Rex introduces himself to Hevy, Fives, and Echo by saying, ”The name’s Rex but you’ll call me Captain or Sir”. Later on at least Echo calls him just Rex.
Star Wars created by George Lucas