- I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We take more stuff with us for family campouts than a squad of soldiers will take for an 18 month deployment.
- Giving the dogs a bath in the bed of my truck created a clean spot, which required me to wash the rest of the truck.
- Of course it rained all weekend, why do you ask?
- A lot of people are saying that the Obama presidency is sliding fast toward irrelevancy. I think we need to strengthen our flanks and double the guard. A rat is most dangerous when it’s trapped and losing.
- I tried an experiment of freezing water bottles and putting them in the cooler to see if they took longer than ice cubes to melt. I was also trying to not have waterlogged food after a couple of days.
- They worked OK for about a day, then we had to go back to ice cubes.
- Non-DEET, natural insect repellant isn’t worth the trouble.
- Not effective against mosquitoes, gnats, or chiggers. No ticks, though. Unless you count the one that I developed after two days of Boo singing his own interpretation of Disney anthems.
- On Thursday night, I worked hard to make sure that there was appropriate, nutritious, and tasty food for everyone. By Sunday morning, I was letting Boo snack on yellow Skittles while I got a breakfast of MegaMart banana muffins and juice boxes together.
- When it’s too hot and muggy to drink beer, it’s time to envy those who own an air-conditioned camper.
- Life sure has gotten easier since I figured out that I have two teenagers who want to learn how to do stuff.
- For the family pot luck dinner, a real man would have made something roasted on a spit over a slow fire or made using natural wood coals in a cast iron dutch oven. I, not being a real man, threw a ham into a crock pot and called it good.
Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on June 23, 2014
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Old NFO
/ June 23, 2014But you survived it, right? Any camping trip with kids is an exercise in survival… especially of the temper… 🙂
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daddybear71
/ June 23, 2014I had my moments, but this year went better than most. Boo has started to really mature, and not having to constantly keep him from running off, bouncing off the tent, or getting hit by cars was nice.
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Ruth
/ June 23, 2014As someone who lives in an area with a voracious mosquito population and a fairly signifigant tick population, the non-deet repellents are OK for daytime use in the cleared yard. If I want to stomp through the brush, or if its headed for dusk then I need the high proof stuff….The clip on mosquito repellent are actually halfway decent as long as you’re not doing alot of moving around (ie: sitting and weeding the garden) even at dusk.
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daddybear71
/ June 23, 2014I consider myself a conservationist, but by the end of this weekend, I was ready to douse the entire campground in high concentrations of DDT.
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falnfenix
/ June 23, 2014small water bottles don’t do the same job that large bottles do, regarding keeping coolers cold. also helps a GREAT deal if you have marine coolers.
as a heads-up: Costco tends to have nicely-sized, wheeled Igloo marine coolers from time to time for quite a bit less than retail. might be worth looking for if you have a Costco near you.
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daddybear71
/ June 23, 2014Once the current crop of Igloo coolers ages itself out, my plan is to replace them with higher end coolers. We got maybe 24 hours out of a couple of bags of ice in them before all we had was cold water.
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falnfenix
/ June 24, 2014gah. yeah, sounds like you have drink-only coolers. no bueno for camping, that’s for sure!
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Drang
/ June 23, 2014If I ever say it’s too hot and muggy to drink beer, grab a shovel and call the bugler.
As for what Real Men cook, in the immortal words of Jerry Niven to the author of Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche (as reported by Larry Pournelle, who was at the same party) “A Real Man eats whatever he damned well pleases!”
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daddybear71
/ June 23, 2014With the storm fronts coming through in waves, the humidity was oppressive. Something heavy like a good beer just wasn’t appetizing. I was tempted to go into town for some Miller High Life so that I could rehydrate.
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