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May 22, 2012

Father/Son Campout

It has been raining, thunder storming and high winds for over a week now, so nothing much to report on the garden. Too squishy out there to do much, and I'm sure the tomatoes are now freely spreading on the ground since there has been so much wind I'm sure they are no longer secured to their trellis system.

I know we need the rain, but it's putting a damper on a lot of my plans.  I've had a "Mother's Day Marshmallow Roast" planned for my Cub Scouts for over 2 weeks now and we have to keep canceling due to the weather.  

The weather didn't stop our church's Father/Son Campout, however!  Although there were high winds, the rain stayed away for them.  They went up to the Eastern Shore of Virginia.  For those unfamiliar, it's a trip across the 13 mile engineering wonder of the world Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel  :)  It's actually only a 30 minute or so trip to the other side but it's like another world over there, very rural, seaside agriculture and fishing and not too much else.  Some may only know of the area as the spit of land where the Chincoteague Ponies swim, but that's the general geographical area.


I had to entrust the photography to hubby and sent him off with my camera with instructions to "make sure you don't just take pictures of crap, make sure there are people's faces in them!!"  Well, he gave the camera to Loch for the weekend, so we get what we get and we don't throw a fit, right?

Dads setting up tents 



One of the boys' friends, (and one of my Cub Scouts) hamming it up...


Whittling... this is why I made sure I threw a first aid kit in the car LOL


My child sent into what was probably a Water Moccasin infested field... this wouldn't happen if moms were there, ha!


Oh great, a snake hunt?  One of the dads said after returning from the trip that they were sent to look for the elusive Wheat Cobra, LOL!  But hey, I'm still stuck on the whole real, native snakes we have...yikes!


Finn surveying 


Love the bullhorn... this is on my wish list!


Lots of dads, lots of sons...


Campfire shot, I think Loch took this one


Finnegan


Breakfast time!


I love these tired morning faces! (also my Cub Scouts!)


How did this one get in here?  LOL, was too cute not to post, this is the latest instrument to take up residence in my house.  Finn is dreaming of South Pacific seas...


What was I doing all this time?  I had dreams of reading a book, gardening, etc but after getting all their stuff packed for them and sending them off, I found myself stricken by creativity and made this little cake-pop garden for one of the gals at church that needed sweets for a teen dance.  It was so fun making them but it takes so long!  After that I was so tired I just watched a chick flick LOL.


More thunderstorms today... my poor garden, I haven't been out there in a week!

13 comments:

  1. P.S. to his credit, Loch said he went into the field to chase down a plastic bag that had blown out there! :)

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  2. How fun! It looks like all the dads and all the boys had a great time together. I would have been freaking out about the whole snake thing though...
    Your cake pop garden turned out really cute. At least you got to work on one garden, right? ;-)
    We had quite a bit or rain last night, but it was very welcome here. Good for the garden and to cool us off a bit. Still no air conditioning...:-(

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    1. Anke, sorry to hear you still have no a/c! I know when that humidity creeps into the house that's when it starts to get really awful, hope it gets fixed soon!

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  3. What a great outing for the dads and boys!

    Figures you would use some of your precious "you" time to do something nice for someone else. You get a big gold star for being such a good person!

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    1. Mama Pea, funny thing was that with no boys underfoot the usual "chore" of baking actually turned out to be pretty fun! Music turned up, no screaming kids... LOL!

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  4. I think Loch did a great job with the photos. Looks like they had a blast. Now send some of that rain up here please.

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    1. Jane, you can have it! One more evening of thunderstorms tonight and it's supposed to dry up here for the weekend.

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  5. It looks like they had a great time! We have been having rain here too. It was supposed to rain all day today....but, the sun just popped out!

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    1. Robin, they did have a good time, I hope you are getting some sunshine to work in those gardens this week!

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  6. great outing for the boys and dad's. I don't here about enough of them ,just stupid dad's that put there kids in front loading wash machine in the laundromat.I'll give 2 gold stars to send me up a 100 cake pop[s jk I wouldn't even ask my sister ,they look yummy tho. I'm trying to beat my head in for this grad party .I had it figured out to do cupcakes.my daughter ,says " Richie needs a cake" walmart wants $45.-- for a sheet cake ,I'll try costo ,someone said $18.00 for a 1/2 sheet

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    1. Judy, yeah - YouTube isn't a good place to go for parenting advice LOL!!!

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  7. Ran across your site...somehow! Scrolling through, the ‘ukulele caught my eye. Perhaps useful: http://liveukulele.com (my 19 year old son's site). Aloha!

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  8. Kris,
    I will definitely check it out!

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