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traildancer
True Blue Farmgirl
485 Posts
Loyce
Glide
OR
USA
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 Posted - Oct 04 2011 : 7:33:03 PM
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I wanted to pack in to Thielsen Creek this past weekend with a friend. She doesn't do horses so I offered to pack in all the stuff and she could hike to the camp. She does a lot of hiking. She thought that was a great idea. We have tried all summer to no avail. I thought this past weekend would finally work but she had a bunch of activities so I decided to go by myself. Well, it rained so I stayed home.
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Saturday night I slept down at the barn in the horse trailer!! The next morning I told my husband that I was pretending I was camping. He said he wished he had known because he would have built a campfire to sit around--in the barn parking lot. Hee, hee.
So I slept in the trailer for three nights altogether and listened to the rain on the roof. It wasn't quite the same, but a lot drier!!!!
Do any of you pseudo-camp?
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13631 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
1735 Posts |
Posted - Oct 05 2011 : 07:59:22 AM
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We enjoy the daytime activities then sleep in our own beds. We hike our little valley, eat picnic style food on the back deck, roast hot dogs and make smores over a campfire, and drink lots of coffee from our campfire coffee pot. It's a fun way to spend the day, then we carry the sleeping 2y/o to her own bed and sleep in our own bed. Camping fun with at home simplicity!
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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
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Posted - Oct 05 2011 : 11:23:06 AM
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We've been having campfires now that the pool has been taken down and put away. Can't camp out here. We've had a series of crimes happening in our area and I just don't feel safe sleeping outside.
Camper is at the shop getting winterized. I hope we can head out at least 1 more time before winter hits.
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Oct 09 2011 : 9:46:38 PM
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Hey Ceejay, i hear ya ! a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do....
I have one of those portable firepits that I sit out buy my trailer.... hubby & I sit out there in the late afternoon on the weekends.... ofcourse, now that it's been rainy up here we have had to sit by our fireplace in the living room....
As for my trailer... I have one more weekend of Glamping, next weekend...so I am keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't rain to hard.....
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
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Lindsay C
True Blue Farmgirl
117 Posts
Lindsay
Rogersville
AL
USA
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Posted - Dec 03 2011 : 06:59:51 AM
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For our son's birthday party last month we made a campfire and put bales of hay around it for everyone to sit on. We have left the fire pit there since then to enjoy at night by ourselves! I'm hoping to start pseudo-camping in our yard more often.
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Catherine L
True Blue Farmgirl
408 Posts
Cathy
Newton
Texas
USA
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Posted - Dec 03 2011 : 08:35:13 AM
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I keep wanting to camp and my husband keeps saying that's a good idea, but we don't ever go. I think he is just agreeing to keep me happy. I think Pseudo-camping might just be the answer. We do enjoy sitting around a fire in our backyard making coffee on our campstove. Now all I need to do is pop up the tent. He couldn't talk his way out of that one.
~Cathy~
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13631 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Wildcrafter
True Blue Farmgirl
340 Posts
Suzanne
Seattle
WA
USA
340 Posts |
Posted - Dec 06 2011 : 07:27:17 AM
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Sometimes I sleep out in the camper. It's next to the chicken coop and there's electricity in there, so I plug in my heater and dvd player and relax. One time, I slept out there 4 nights in a row...it's so peaceful!....and on the 5th night, my husband came out and very quietly asked if I had moved out. Dang! Grabbed my stuff and my camping adventure was over.
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Dec 06 2011 : 7:18:52 PM
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hey Suzanne, who wudda thunk it...here we are in early Dec. and so far no real snow... wish I hadn't put my lil trailer away for Winter... cuz I would be out there, snuggled in with my kitties, laptop & a stash of junk food from Trader Joes! lol!
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Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
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Wildcrafter
True Blue Farmgirl
340 Posts
Suzanne
Seattle
WA
USA
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Posted - Dec 07 2011 : 06:24:58 AM
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Grace, we had snow and ice last year on Thanksgiving! That's big for us. And big snow in February. I had brought my niece and nephew up to visit during their midwinter break and was going to take them up Hwy 20 into the mountains to play in the snow. The day after I brought them up, we had that big snow and we sledded down a hill next to our Home Depot! Fun! My nephew, on his own, dug out places for the chickens to walk around in their pen and out the door.
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Dec 08 2011 : 09:45:15 AM
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Dang it! I knew I moved to the wrong side of the state! lol!
Woke up to a good blanket of snow/frost on the ground this a.m., & a thick blanket of fog....but oh well, that's life in the Pacific/Inland N.W.! 
Tonight kpaints & I are hitting the trail to head over to Spokane Valley for dinner with our
'Sisters on the Fly' ~ E.WA & ID. Panhandle group.... so I am glad there is no snow right now.
We did get a snow on Thanksgiving day, but nothing much more since then.
But Winter isn't over yet! lol!
Have a wonderful weekend.
>^..^<
Winter 2008
 
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13631 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13631 Posts |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
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USA
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