Lady Tear Droppers, drop in and say "Hello"!

[Joanne]

Thanks Becca!

I've been spending so much time trying to keep the camp-cook.com site going and working on our local Dutch Oven group (I was just elected as director of our local IDOS chapter). Hopefully things will settle down a bit and I'll be spending more time here. You all are the greatest!

Joanne

[Joanne]

:applause: Looks beautiful on the beach Peggy.

Pam, Sam, Shelly and Joanne (and all the others) you all take care driving, and have some fun for the rest of us too...

Thanks Miriam! Sure wish we could get together in person some time. I'd love to sit down with you, drink some iced tea, and have a nice long chat.

Joanne

[cccamper]

:applause: Way to go Amy! I am so jealous. I don't dare take my canoe on a big river, especially when high. Not enough skill or strength. Looks like you had a wonderful time. And thanks.

Mandy, Any fish is better than cleaning house. I have been burning and cutting logs again. I can see the ground now. This pile was over my head when I started.


and the resulting pile of firewood


And still left to go. These are at least cleaned. My neighbor didn't want them so I collected them and will cut them for the fireplace when the electric company can keep it on
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i'm browsing through here for the first time in many months and saw your first photo...made me jump! couldn't remember posting any december 2007 ice storm results here! things were terrible right in a couple blocks around us. people from a few miles away would drive by looking totally amazed... at least the MO river bluffs seem to make the full force of storms jump right over us most of the time.

sure is a lot more sky to see now! Thank God the airstream and guppy were in the front drive so they weren't smashed like our house. easier to have the insurance take care of the house!


elizabeth
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[Miriam C.]

Joanne we will all land in the same spot sooner or later. Elizabeth, we got hit twice in a year. The first time we only lost small limbs. I know as bad as ours was it was much worse 10-70 miles East of us and South. We just have had lots of reasons (excuses) why the piles didn't get cut up and stacked. Number one on that list is the hard start of the other two chain saws we have.

I love my new saw. I will get a picture when I am finished. Fence line looks like a fort in the making.

[mandy]

Wow this thread is jumping with activity. To those going to IRG Have Fun and Be Safe. Don't forget to take lots and lots of pics ( it makes Aunti M Happy) and me too cause I can't go this year.

Peggy Congrats on your first Trip with your TD.

Rebecca: Rain rain go away come again some other day.

Joanne I bet it's hard to decide what to take to IRG. I personally would take everything including the kitchen sink.

Have Fun
Mandy

[Miriam C.]

Joanne I bet it's hard to decide what to take to IRG. I personally would take everything including the kitchen sink. Laughing

Have Fun
Mandy

Maybe Gage has the right idea. I hear he only takes a fork.

[CAJUN LADY]

Joanne I bet it's hard to decide what to take to IRG. I personally would take everything including the kitchen sink. Laughing

Have Fun
Mandy

Maybe Gage has the right idea. I hear he only takes a fork.

[CAJUN LADY]

Mandy, it rained so hard and so much yesterday, I thought we were gonna have a flooding problem and it was only a 20% chance of rain. Today it was 80% and it drizzled...go figure.

[mandy]

Mandy, it rained so hard and so much yesterday, I thought we were gonna have a flooding problem and it was only a 20% chance of rain. Today it was 80% and it drizzled...go figure.

I guess I don't understand Humidity cause one time they said that we had 90% humidity, so it thought that ment that there was going to be a lot of rain coming .

I still don't understand the humidity thing.

Mandy

[peggyearlchris]

Thanks ladies for all the kudos on my trailer. Becca I was having so much fun I forgot to make a list of what and what not to bring.Thanks for reminding me.I know one thing to bring the A/C. Not cool enough at night in July.Glad there was a nice breeze those nights.Cheers, Peg

[Mary K]

Mandy here's what ya do. Turn the heat on in your house up to oh....98* then, go in the bathroom and turn on the shower on HOT. And sit in there for 30 min. That's what living in Florida is like.

Hi Ladies!!


Mk

[cccamper]

Mandy here's what ya do. Turn the heat on in your house up to oh....98* then, go in the bathroom and turn on the shower on HOT. And sit in there for 30 min. That's what living in Florida is like.

Hi Ladies!!


Mk

oh yeah!
the summer after i was in 5th grade my family took the train from washington (umatilla, oregon actually) to tampa, florida. we lived in the washington desert (hanford atomic reservation) that had 8" rain/year.

the trains in the west were wonderful. like in old movies. vista dome car! then we got off in chicago and spent the n ight with my father's aunt. next day we get on a commuter train. that's about all they were all the rest of the way.

when we got to jacksonville we got off for our final transfer to get over to tampa. it was the middle of the night and i was miserably tired - the way when your eyes hurt and you head can't remember why it is attached or what to do.

i got off that train ready to gulp in some fresh, cool, clean desert night air. HA! i never knew what humidity was! i couldn't breath! it was just like Mary K said.

nothing like fresh cool summer mornings in the mountain evergreens. sure wish gas wasn't so high!

elizabeth . . .

[flygal6]

Hey everyone,
Sounds like a busy summer for many of you with lots of camping adventures ahead.....safe travels to all. And for the rest of us still trying to get out there some more....keep the faith.
Just an update for you all as its been 4 months or so since I have been on. Made it to our midwest cooler by the lake campout back in April when it was still definitely COOLER. Had great fun with everyone. No camping since but for a very good reason. I have been up to my eyeballs getting my home in Chicagoland sold, finding a new job up in Appleton, WI and just purchased a new home there. First sale finalizes end of this month and I close on the new home the friday before Labor day. I lucked out and got a site in Pennsula State park in beautiful Door County, WI for the holiday weekend. So I am putting all the house stuff aside and making time for at least one other camping weekend for this season and hope to make more in the fall. New job at the hospital is great and love this area and the friendly and welcoming folks here in Wisconsin. I now am only 10 min from my sailboat and this area sits right on a 30 mile long Lake Winnebago. I know this was a great decision to come here.
The best benefit of being here as been my new found friendship with Tammy (packerz) who has been great and quite helpful with my move and launching the sailboat. I met her here and started contacting her last fall and now are great friends as well.
This site as you all know offers so much to so many. I love reading all your stories and about your lives as well.
Miriam I promise to take pics over Labor day.
Great to see this thread is still going strong ladies! Keep the stories coming!
Carol

[mandy]

Carol: Welcome back! Good to hear that things are going well with you.

Elizabeth and Mary K: I've heard how bad the humidity is out in Florida, I've been in Dallas/ Ft Worth and the humidity there almost killed me.

I like it here it's hot but dry, and the mountains are cold at night if you go camping.

Rebecca: It's been raining here alot too, were in the monsoon season. At first we haven't had any rain now we have too much rain. I won't complain cause that means the mountains won't burn.

Have Fun
Mandy

[Lynn Coleman]

Wow, have we all be chatting.

JoAnn, I'm sure you'll get everything in and then some for your trip. Congrats on the DO stuff, you'll make a fine leader of your group.

Peggy your tear looks great.

Sam, so glad you met up with our fellow teardroppers and had a good time.

Shelley I'm excited that the new job is going well for you. I'll be praying your get some serious camping in soon.

Carol wb and do I understand you sold the old house? If so, congrats, it's a tough time to sell right now. Flipside is, it's a good time to buy. Hopefully your sale benefitted you on the new purchase.

Well, the Inkwell is being worked on this Saturday. It needs a new axle. Tomorrow Paul and I will bring it to the weigh station and see how heavy it is. I believe the first axle was defective but I didn't know sooner that was a real problem. I mentioned to Paul that the wheels were on too much of an angle but he thought it was the way the axle was build. Needless to say, I want it weighed to make sure we aren't over the specs for the weight of the axle and if so, I'm hoping to get a refund on the old one. I was thinking of making a post asking everyone to guess my weight but then I realized that could land a bunch of comments I wouldn't want to deal with.



Lynn