Saturday, September 17

We lived!

Good stuff:
Great campsite 30 ft from the backwaters of the lake:


A great blue heron hung out with us for several days..and a green heron popped in yesterday morning:



Our dogs were quiet and well-behaved:


Last night, all hell broke lose!
We never camp on weekends.  Now I remember why.
FOUR loose dogs wandering around.  Apparently, leash laws only apply to..us?
  I think ALL kids should get to go camping..don't get me wrong..but with that comes teaching respect for other campers.
Stop the damned screaming.  Stop running into other campsites.
I would have gotten my head handed to me for screaming for no good reason.
Had I run into someone's campsite (screaming), I would have gotten strapped to the roof rack.

Or fed to the fish!

14 comments:

  1. Freaky fish!!!! Yikes. That threat would be enough for me to keep my mouth shut.

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  2. Great photos, Samantha! It looks like you had good weather. My tolerance for the screaming kids running through camp would have been very low. It's sad when dogs are better behaved than people.

    Love the herons! Glad you had fun!

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  3. That fish looks nasty!

    Welcome home. Looks like it was a good time (great site) and super pictures!

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  4. Oh, Samantha, doesn't that just irk the crap out of you when you play by the rules and others don't?!?!?! Glad it was a lovely time for you, the family the dogs!...:)JP

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  5. sorry for the disruptions, but glad you had some peace and beauty! :)

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  6. Nice site and great pics! I've done some fishing in my time, but I've never seen anything like that:@)

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  7. That's why we hardly ever do regular canpgrounds...just doesn't work for us. In Arizona you can camp anywhere in the national forest or BLM land...if you don't care about hookups it's the way to go.

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  8. glad you made it back home safely. your dogs are so sweet. that fish with "lips" is a-m-a-z-i-n-g
    LOL
    KAT

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  9. We've never had a problem if we camp during the week...weekends are HELL, though!

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  10. The weather looks great there -- it's cold and rainy here today. Blah.

    Nope, I would have no patience for screaming kids.

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  11. My son and his wife just said the same thing, during the week it was great and then on Friday night, people camped in their camp sight next to their firepit. Watched them like they were the T.V. until they were so cheeped out they came home. It makes you wonder but we stayed in a hotel and the kids were running up and down the stairs 5-7 year olds while the parents partied on the roof, until 3:00 in the morning.
    Something has so changed in the world it freaks me out.
    So glad you had fun and didn't freeze.

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  12. great post!
    Blue herons I know- but GREEN!

    Magical...


    Aloha from Waikiki;

    We are crazed moving! Please excuse my absence!


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  13. Noise at night whilst camping is traumatic. If I want a racket I might as well stay at home and sit on the couch as it's a lot more comfortable! That tent is truly the 'Taj Mahal' of tents :)

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  14. yeah, weekends...esp when the weather starts cooling down...can be a madhouse at the campgrounds!
    looks like a beautiful place to be though...love your pictures...and your tent! wow! so roomy!!
    (we're going camping next weekend! can't wait!

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