The Camping Trip

I learned I was ill-prepared for it.

And I learned that I really do not like roughing it.

K, the ill-prepared parts.....why didn't I think to bring an air mattress? Why didn't I set up the borrowed tent beforehand to make sure it was long enough to stretch my legs/and make sure the f*ckin tent pegs fit the thingies they go into? WHY did I forget my blanket? ( but of course remember to bring 8 dog blankets so they could at least be comfy? )

And, the not thrilled about roughing it part.....I know that even IF I had a tent I could stand up in, and it was square ( this thing I borrowed was round! Round for gawd's sake! AND it was a "2-person" tent! Ummm, are there alot of round people out there? I am only familiar with the up and down kind. sheesh ) I wouldn't pitch a tent anywhere. The shitters in the campgrounds....it doesn't matter how "clean" they look, they creep me out. "Nuff said about that topic. The picnic table was so sticky and dirty it was disgusting. I wanted to sand that crap off and paint the table before I set my beer can down on it! :)

I could go on, but I don't want to sound like a whiner. AND a sniveler.

Watcher and Frank, my German Shepherds, were also not prepared for it. When I take them up in the mountains they are always on 30 foot leads....but those leads are not tied to anything. They have them on just in case I need to pull one of them back from a raccoon, or a skunk, or gawd forbid a bear or? But in this case they had to be tethered to a tree. ( or they would have done a bit of wandering when my back was turned ) If it wasn't pissing me off so much it would have been comical....I had to untangle themselves from each other, or a tree, or my Van, or a huge boulder approximately every 17 seconds. They ended up becoming stressed by the whole situation. Poor buggers.

Anyway, I do NOT see myself "camping" anytime soon.

Oh, I could do it in an R.V. or a camper, 'cause I can get into a fire and BBQ'ing outdoors, and the aromas of the forest are great, but not in a dinky tent.

Here's a couple of photos of a Chipmunk, who hung around the entire time we were there. We didn't have to feed him anything, he seemed to be finding nuts and seeds all over the campsite.

And a couple of a Woodpecker.




No photos of Watcher and Frankie, I was too bloody busy un-tangling.