Another day of rain and cold. The weather forecast said it would be mid seventies today but I no longer believe them. New England has it's own weather and can change within 10 minutes. Just dress in jeans and a sweatshirt because you feel cold and within an hour you need to get home or go to the store and buy a cotton blouse. I'm always prepared, I have a wardrobe in my car which hubby always has a comment about.
We have been having our same visitors every night and last night hubby was at the back door with his flashlight. We have a bright flood light to see with but he still using that little dinky flashlight. He's afraid if he turns the light on it will scare the skunk and it will spray the door if it happens to be on the porch. I won't comment on that.
Our kids and grandsons are still out camping and I pray the rest of the week goes better for them. All this rain. They intend to spend this week fishing and going out in the canoes. I've got my fingers crossed for them. They don't seem to mind the weather but the cold nights after getting wet and not having dry clothes to change into makes for a yucky feeling. They came to get more warm shirts yesterday and had to make another trip to the grocery store. I guess they are eating fairly well.
Daughter-in-law came home for the weekend in order to get caught up with the wash and dry out. She has to work this week so the guys are on their own. This gives her a break too as she didn't appreciate having to get up early in the mornings to cook breakfast. I could have told her that's what camping is all about. It's definitely not a vacation for the one who has to cook and clean up.
I always took a good book and read one after the other while the guys played at being Robinson Caruso. They actually built me a sink and hooked up running water so I could wash dishes and wash my hair daily. Those were my requirements... Hubby is very creative that way and if we stayed long enough we would have had a house built with branches with leaves to keep out the rain. Rain, did I mention rain? We had an 11 day vacation and that year it rained every single day. I busied myself making different soups and stews. Heck, I became quite good at it if I might brag.
Now they have the blow up sleeping mattress/beds (sissies), and the fancy tents. They even took the grill and the fry cooker. Boy has camping come a long way. We had to build trenches around our site to focus the water away from the tents. LOL, we got soaked one night and the three boys slept in the car. They were just little then. I got up early and started breakfast, one my hubby just mentioned yesterday and asked why I never made it anymore. Maybe because we are both on special diets (we cheat), and a pound of bacon fried crisp in a huge iron skillet and set aside until the chopped onions and potatoes were nicely cooked until well done. With the added seasonings and the crunched up bacon added, our stomachs were rumbling and we were salavating. I made that breakfast every morning and the boys remember it to this day. Of course they were all comfy in their sleeping bags until it was time to be served with the fried eggs. Ummm, I can just picture our cholesterol clogged arteries as all that grease built up. And we now wonder why we are on cholesterol lowering drugs.
It's after 9 A.M. already and it doesn't look any better outside than it did when I started on this at 7. It takes time at my age to get this straight. I already realized that I forgot to insert a picture up top. Visualize me with a large question mark on my face because I don't know how to correct it. If I try I might lose the blog again and I'm not about to start all over again.
Have a nice day people. And keep dry.
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