It's FRIDAY
Hey everyone! It's Friday, and I just realized that I haven't written anything to the blog since Saturday. Man, I'm not very good at staying up on this.
We're going camping this weekend, which is going to be a lot of fun. We both love to go camping, but it seems like there's really never enough time for it. At least to go for more than one night at a time anyway. But after last weekend, being out of town for the hydroplane races, it just sounded good to be in the outdoors, sitting around a campfire and relaxing all weekend. We're both looking forward to just spending the time together.
I've spent the last couple of days getting all of the arrangements taken care of. Grocery shopping, planning meals, checking all of our gear to make still it's all still where it's supposed to be, etc. It's been fun!!
Work has been going great! Today I'll likely finish up a PR Plan for the agency that I work at. We've "hired ourselves" to do some PR for the agency. That's been a fun project, and I should be able to present the plan to the bosses next week sometime. The agency, obviously, is one of my clients, so that'll be a fun project to work on. One of my clients, the winery, just got another really good media hit for its wine (with a mucho positive review) in yesterday's Salem newspaper, so that's great news . . . and another of my clients will likely be featured on the Channel 8 (our local NBC affiliate) news one night next week. So I've been busy!
As is the usual practice for our summers, Mick and I have been getting together once a week, almost every week for a "boat night", where we hang out, have a couple beers and work on our model race boats together. We're both building new boats right now (Mick actually has THREE new boat construction projects currently going on). My new one is coming right along. The frame is done, and once the stringers are in place (next week probably), I'll be able to start putting the decking and bottom on . . . already. Seems as if I just started working on it! Weird.
I still have to download pictures from my camera, so I'll do that soon. Some of those include the work in progress on my new boat. It's been fun.
posted by Dawn & Nelson @ 8:37 AM
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Camping. Now there is a subject that can generate discussion. I don't get the whole camping deal these days.
Back in the "horse and carriage" days, known as our youth--you remember Dawn, fill Nelson in--one would travel for miles, down a dirt road, windows open (no ac in cars then), always being delayed for road construction, to arrive at a state forest camp. No running water, no electricity, no "nuthin". If you were lucky, you might get a cute little outhouse. Lawd--don't select a site downwind from that place, and keep a good hold on that flashlight at night, it's the only one we have. You get the picture. There might be one or two other campmates, who select sites as far away from yours as possible. After finding the most level spot, the tent would go up, and down, up and down. No pop-ups in those days. It was the good old center post and corner stakes. Misery made of canvas. And the aroma of an old tent just cannot be duplicated these days. Are we having fun yet? What to do with the "cold" food? Well, there would be a stream running through the camp cold enough to freeze the hair off of a polar bear. That was primative refrigeration. And--you could fish all day and nobody would even consider raiding your icebox. People had great scruples while camping, even if they didn't have them any other time. Of course, while you were out fishing for your next meal, you were the next meal for every biting insect within a days fly of your location. Bring on the calamine.
Campfire times. Try to get the spot where the smoke doesn't blow. Is there one? Oh well, the burnt smell is better than the tent smell. S'mores--a camping staple. Of course some smart a-- wants to light their marshmallow afire. Then, in sheer panic, flip it on someone minding their own business. Can't you just hear the sizzle of searing skin? Or, if it was the second night, and threats had been issued about burners and flippers, there was the age old problem of gluttony, which we all struggle with. Just gotta take that bite before you really should. Hot, sticky marshmallow. Burn, sizzle, YEOOOW! Bet you didn't even realize how many yards of skin were inside your mouth until they were all hanging down like sadly tattered curtains.
Bedtime!! Rocks, ouchy! Airmattress. Rocks-- POP--no airmattress. Ooochy Ouchy! Are there any bears around here?
Need to perform the necessary morning hygiene? That freeze the hair from a bear stream is the only source for washing. Knock yourself out. You will be the most beautiful shade of pink you have ever seen by the time you are finished.
Forgot something? There is a store down the road--about 10 miles. Arrive at the store. They sell lard, grits, block ice, fish hooks, bait, and lantern mantles. What the heck else could you need?
So--camping today.
As you said--we see folks doing it around here all the time-- the week before you drag out all of the crap to "check" it. For what? It's camping. Rough it. Besides, there is probably a Walmart within 15 minutes of every campground in America. It's always the guys doing the checking and they always look grouchy. I guess because if they don't "check" and something isn't right there will be hell to pay on the relaxing getaway. God forbid!
So, you get to the campground and plunk within 10 feet of the next "escapee". You have more privacy at home--oh, I get it--not the same ambience. Wait, before you get too settled, check the cell phone signal. Someone might need to call us. Do they have Wi-Fi? I thought we paid extra for that when we made the reservation(?). Hurry, get the TV going, Greys Anatomy is about to start. Fire up the microwave and get the Hot Pockets cooked. Man-- how long are they gonna play that obnoxious music? Love those neighbors. Be sure you keep the beer in the trunk of the car. Pilfering is now part of the "sport" of camping--so I hear.
So, I don't know if you have a tent or a camper, but I am sure you have an aerobed, or some other new fangled nicety. And lord knows you'll pick the campground with the quarter peep show--uh, I mean shower.
So, I hope you have a blast. I will be here on my "God's little acre", harvesting beans to can and making applesauce from my tree, which is heavily laden. That old fashioned "work" stuff. But--come Sunday night, I will not be in my front yard "inspecting" the camping items that I just loaded in my car two hours ago, so that I can put them away until I need to "inspect" them again for the next trip. I will be sitting in the lounge chair, eating fresh apple crisp, with all of the skin in my mouth still in tact.
Hope you have a great time. Sorry I was so windy.
What is this "Comment moderation has been enabled" Is this a screening device? I think it just grabbed my long winded speel on camping and sent it into cyberspace.
Sorry Joan, we've been getting spam on the comments so we're ok'ing them now.
I think you need to go camping. It's really lots more fun than you make it out to be,
OK, I'm game. Tell me the fun stuff. You can't just say "try it you'll like it" without telling me what the good stuff is. You see--I have these repressed memories that do not spell fun to me. Elaborate please--I want to know.
Wow! Blog Boogers. I had no idea. Why would anyone want to spam on a Blog?
In your world what is camping? is it Trendwest or the full blown motor home or a real tent and camping? Remember I cut the steaks into 3 and 4 peices before Bar-BQing them. Sorry you guys didn't get enough to eat maybe next year we can have a bigger and better meal!!! The last time I went camping we had to take the boat to the camp spot and we made several tripps to get the camping stuff into the camp before we could do any thing like eat or sleep. But it was alot of fun. Fresh water was only 5 miles away and the gas station only 21 miles away from the boat ramp. Have fun!!
Sounds like fun NOT
Ok Joan,Sorry my note was so short about camping. I was at work and I got really busy. And I'm still not going to tell you why camping is so fun, because... I'm going camping! We'll be back on Sunday. I guess you'll have to just wait in anticipation until then... bye.
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