Yes me too........ I have to go out tomorrow night to a Party political do.... Mikey on my hip and breast feeding ...I'll be a hit..hahahaha <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Snow camping.

Snrk!!

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Snow Camping is fun and remember, there are NO FLIES.
No snakes either.

SS

You should have heard Mom this morning when I broke the news to her that the reason Dad felt justified in spending "a bit extra" on the tent was because he expected that they would be "doing this a lot more often", and "there might be snow". Actually you wouldn't have heard Mom. She gave whole new meaning to 'deathly silent'.

Neaksis and I, on the other hand, have been belly laughing nonstop. "...A lot more often..." she chortles, wiping the tears from her eyes. "SNOW!" I reply, then we fall, gasping and helpless to the ground.

I wonder why he didn't get THIS one???

This one is just about like the one he got, though his is tan. The picture of the camp stove wouldn't fit on the monitor.

Hey Neaksis,
Tell us the real story about your mom, and camping. Is it the work of going camping she doesn't like, or is it something else?

AW, Great story. Thanks for sharing.

Every one realizes of course, that while she is sleeping, we could say anything we wanted and then edit it out before she sees it.

Of course, the MODS would probably start locking threads again. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

SS

It's like the story of the princess and the pea, but there are lots of fans involved. Mom likes her little amenities.

She also just doesn't think the work involved is outweighed by the fun.

Ok,
Do you, her children like camping, and if yes, then how come you do, and she does not?

Our family always liked it, but I understand that not everyone does.

I would have liked to have been there and watched that exchange ..... T&L silent - who would have thought. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

SS <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Edited to add:
OK, so she doesn't like the work, and she likes her little amenities. You mean your dad doesn't do all the set up, take down, and all the cooking so that she will want to go?

I can't beleive it.

My, my, my, haven't WE all been having fun today while the feline was comatose?! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> I don't know if my attitude towards camping was forwever skewed by the fact that we went camping on our honeymoon, which even minus the the massive chigger attack I had from my waist to my knees, was NOT a good idea. I was weighed in the balances right out of the gate, and found wanting because I didn't know how to pitch in and carry my fair share of the load. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Or maybe it happened because every time we went somewhere he overpacked (IMHO) for the trip, including every possible supply but the kitchen sink--and sometimes the kitchen sink went along, too--then after we lugged it all over the place without using most of it, it was MY job to put everything away when we got home again. I don't have any objection to going somewhere (besides hospitals) and doing something (besides vaginal exams and and teaching uncooperative women how to push). I don't like the packing that goes into a trip, and I. DEFINITELY don't like the unpacking that comes afterwards <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I would travel light, and eat at Taco Bell, if it were left up to me.

It's not! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Susan, the reluctant good sport... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I'm leaving for work very early today so I can get the turn signal fixed on the car, buy bread for the trip, and go to the mandatory computer lab so I don't have to do it in the morning before I come home to join in the family frolic. See Susan. Susan is going CAMPING tomorrow. See the wonderfully-sincere smile on her happy little face. Pretend like you believe it's real. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

You have a very intelligent gluteus maximus. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />


<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Excuse me, once again the humor on this thread has left me momentarily overcome by mirth! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Bwwwaaahhhhhaaaa <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Ok, Ok,
It's fun to tease people who are good sports, but you do know I was thinking you would be smiling right along with us - don't you?

SS goes camping to the Grand Canyon -

I learned something from this trip - against my will.

It's early summer. The SS family (Aren't the kids excited, wheeeee !!) gets ready to go to the Grand Canyon. We pack up our tent trailer. We don't take EVERYTHING but we do take plenty of food. With 8 kids, you always pack extra food.

Trip goes well, we hear about campground on dirt road that is not crowded, and we find it. Wonderful place, but no Amenities - like water, and restrooms. We make do. Mrs SS likes it anyway. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

View is nice.
Near our camp

We hike, the kids play. We do pizza over a camp fire, it actually works. Kids ask why there isn't any more of it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

We find wild rasberries, and pick enough to have a nice dessert. No one gets sick. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We pack up, and we start the trip home. The tire goes flat, so we stop. Notice the tire is shredded. Notice that the bolts that hold the axle on are bent and or broken. No idea how, or why, but wheel rubs on wheel well.

Un bolt axle, move back on springs, and bolt again.

Drive 10 miles and repeat, so the tire won't go flat from contact with the wheel well.

Do this for 180 miles. SS irriated, angry, sullen, mean.
SS W, plays with children. Children happy as can be.

Few years later........ Children recall the trip, say it was the best trip they ever went on. SS's jaw drops, he is speachless. SS Wife picks up jaw, tapes it to head. Pats head and says "there there, you'll be OK.

Turns out the kids got extra time to play, and did it all day in abut 18 different places. They could tell me about most of them, and they had a ball.

T&L, you make me smile. Thanks.

Uhhhh, be sure to have lots of fun. I'll be thinking of you.

SS

I just re-caught up today... there was an AWEFUL LOT TO READ too. My my. If I miss a week, kaBAM! There's 15+ pages to catch up on. It was more like 20-something pages.

ANyway, yes, school has started, and I'm in survival mode right now... but everything is going well thus far. Flard and I chatted yesterday for 25 minutes (I looked at my cell phone to see how long it was) and he wanted to hear all the gossip in the Anderson clan and also the news about you guys... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> of course I told him to ask you himself and he said it was too much work <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> and then he begged me to send him a picture of me with long hair and I told him he resigned the right to see when he chose his path, but he knew I said it deviously. He told me Robert said that I "looked lovely" and he just wanted to see for himself. He also said, "So, you should give Robert a call" insinuating that I should hook up with HIM. I told him to put a cork in it. So he said he'd ask Tina for a picture <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I thought about sending him one anyway. Or maybe I'll let him beg. Begging is nice.

But we had a good talk. That's the first time I've really had a conversation with him since May--and of course divorce papers came up and supposedly they are almost done. It sounds like he is pretty overwhelmed by life in general, and is trying to hang on, but I definitely do not see any real noticable yearnings for me, just curiosity. Oh well.

I need to run, but I'll try to write something more informative about me and life later <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I'm just so exhausted I'd like to keel over and pass out for, oh, 12 hours or so. But then I guess you know what that's like. Love to all.

Oh, and p.s. I LOVED the camping story that AW shared!!!!!! THat was unbelievably cool! I emailed it to an Australian friend of mine who lives up in Darwin <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Snirp. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Tee-hee! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Neak and I entertained ourselves this afternoon imagining you hunched over a campfire, hair whipping wildly in the wind, trying to make breakfast in the snow. Do you think it would interfere with Dad's quality time if we stood aways off with binoculars and a camera with a telephoto lense?

Oh, and AJ found a better tent for you. It's called something like a car tent, and it fastens on the end of your car so you could crawl directly from your tent to the car and not leave until it was time to go home. Maybe Daddy will get you one for Christmas.

T&L - We have always done a lot of camping. We raised 8 kids, and they enjoyed it and have fond memories. To me it was almost like being at home. First you get everything ready for the night, then you make dinner, then you do the dishes (without hot running water). Then you put the food into the cooler.

In the morning you get up in the freezing cold and make the fire so you can make breakfast. Then repeat for lunch and dinner.

Actually, instead of coming back refreshed, I always came back exhausted. But we do have nice pictures, and the pictures look like we were having fun.

TRUCK TENT
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Sorry, AJ! The best thing is a TRAVEL TRAILER!

What is nice is that you can keep it stocked with clothes, towels, toiletries, and basic staple foods. When you want to go camping, just pack the perishables, back the truck up to it, hook 'er up, and haul @$$. When you get there, just plug 'er up (be sure your campsite has all the amenities!) Queen sized bed is already made up, turn on the A/C, and t&l can sleep to her heart's content. When hungry, you have a gas cookstove, PLUS a microwave! What more could a girl want? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />