Since several folks have emailed me recently asking what was up with the Barefoot Domestic Goddess, I have been prodded to come out of hiding and post.
Actually, I wasn't really hiding. I was here in plain site spending a lot of time laying about reading and doing various other things. It has been a cool drizzly spring following a blah winter. In fact, it is cool and drizzly today.
BDG and her family went camping this weekend. Yes, camping. I know, many who know me, don't think I am the type of person who camps, and, well, you would be correct. My idea of roughing it is a Motel 6. But, as it happens, BDG married a man who likes to camp. And we have friends who like to camp. So, this weekend we went camping at a not too far away state park with a large group of friends. We left Thursday and I spent Wed and Thurs getting ready.
BDG and her dear spouse have an arrangement. He doesn't want to take her camping TOO often (no more than once a year. Next, she gets everything ready. He does everything at the camp site and treats her like the Goddess she is and then after he hauls all the stuff back home, she deals with it. This works out well, except I still feel like I am involved in the camping. Loads and loads of laundry and several tubs of stuff have to be unpacked. I did several of each already today and should be done with all by late this afternoon.
We don't pack light when we camp. We took too vehicles (LOL) and a large 3 room tent, accessories and some decor items (the BDG likes a pretty camp) a canopy and tables and stoves and coolers and tubs and rugs and chairs and ended up with a large portable home. With many of the comforts of same (although the wind doesn't blow through my real home quite so much).
Before I go I make out menus for the entire trip for all meals and snacks. I make a number of check lists for all categories. Food, each family member, campsite things, etc. This works really well, and helps elimates forgetting important things.
And it was fun. For the most part. It is lots of fun to be in a lovely campsite with lots of friends forming a great little tent village. Being out in the fresh air, seeing wild life (herrons, ducks, turkeys, deer and raccoon as well as hearing wolfs or something and many birds including woodpeckers) is nice. But, the downside is it doesn't last - you know you are going to be taking it all down and packing it up to go home. I have decided that the next time I camp, it will have to for at least a week. And that my friends won't be for a couple years since our vacations are planned for the next two.
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