You can create a dining fly to both cook and eat under. Find two trees that are fairly close together. Tie a rope between the two trees - about eight feet high. Place your tarp over the rope, leaving about the same amount of tarp on both sides. *Tie rope to each corner of the tarp. Run each of the four ropes to the ground and secure them with tent stakes.

You can experiment with height as well as with how low the sides will be, depending on wind and weather conditions. Now you have a place to cook and eat that is protected from the rain. ALWAYS be sure your camp stove has proper ventilation, and that it is not near anything that can overheat and burn.

*If your tarp does not have holes for rope in each corner, find four small stones. Place a stone in each corner of the tarp. Tie a knot around both the stone and the tarp. Neat, huh?