That Campfire Smell

The mornings were wonderfully cool!!! Hubbie stoked the fire and it flamed right up.

We had breakfast duty for this weekend's camping. Somehow that first night I only sleep in those morning hours... thru the night we enjoyed the owl hoots, an unknown squalker and in the depth of the darkness we were entertained by a racoon... we followed him with a midnight clean up!!! The girls were up at 7... time for a cup of tea and breakfast.

8 Deer!!! Making a solo run to the other side of camp at 7p... Hubbie spied the deer just before the Trout Pond. He came and picked me up and five kids... and the deer yet outnumbered us... the doe and fawns were beautiful and calm at our watching... the young had lost their spots and dad was not in sight.
Nature!! The walking stick, shedding salamander & dragon fly entertained us. We killed our fair share of mosquitoes and ants. We only noticed the flies as we left!!

Fishing!! The girls claimed we broke the world record with 82 fish!! Wow!!! They caught a fish every minute for our fishing time!! Good thing that was not our dinner plan... and we released all save one for Ladybug to keep a bit longer.

Snakes Alive!!! The big kids found a long grass snake & Hubbie found a little garter snake. Hubbie is way comfortable with snakes... and he encourages his girls....

We also saw a baby squirrel that was adopted by friends... We saw it's eyes open over the weekend! They fed it puppy formula. How do you care for a baby squirrel??? They wrapped it in a towel and carried it in a pocket!!! They knew how!!!

The catastrophe for us was a sick little girl and a horrible mess in the tent... with HUGE help from Kara.... we recovered and made back up plans.... if she got up sick again... I was leaving....

By God's grace... we slept all night... no coons or anything!!! She felt great ever since!!!

Sunday coming home the vote was unanimous... everybody was ready to camp again!!! And laundry was not even done.... everything yet had that campfire smell...

Even so... I'm eager to go too!!! I'm glad we have another date!! (Just not this weekend!!) Want to come????

We found we are looking into a camping upgrade... the bikes are horrible to pack with... so now we either leave the bikes for scooters or get another method of hauling them.... but first Hubbie thinks we'll fix the brakes!!!

Loving it!!! Grace! ss