For those who may have never read about the great 08 Shivaree here is a link to the day before the day of and the days after......
http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?t=20312&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=150
It was a fun reread for me.
There were lots of firsts and funny thing going on behind the scenes
This was mine and Vickies very very very first teardrop outing.
It was also my very first Dutch Oven cooking experience and we had a great stew for dinner.
Dan had had a fight with his table saw a few days earlier and split his thumb and yet he tuffed it out and made the event.
The birth of the "Apple Pie" experience thanks to RAP.
I played with the mini wood stove in the teardrop and I am sure the look of panic on my face when I opened the door and smoke billowed out had to be priceless. I thought I had really made a mistake but it turned out to just be poor planning. I had forgotten part of the chimney and It was not drawing out well and with every puff of wind it shoved the smoke inside the trailer.
For those that don't know it went to -1 temp and a record -15 wind chill the minute the sun went down.
We learned that you can take off a tiny bit of chill in a vault toilet with the addition of a good Coleman lantern left running to light and somewhat heat the space.
The single funniest thing that happened that day was the great coffee experiment... Anyone who has met Vickie knows that once she warms up she can talk the legs off of a picnic table. Well in the midst of a cup of coffee she started one of her stories. A few minutes into it, she took a "next" sip of her coffee and it hit her square in the nose. The look on her face led to an explosion of laughter from the rest of us. In a split second she realized her coffee had froze in the cup between sentences.
These are the silly treasures that we take from these slightly insane winter outings. The friendships and comradery ,the experiments, and happy accidents are just little memorys to treasure. I want to thank all of the brave folks that have not only joined us but also those who have simply stopped out to visit with us during the day to say hi and check on us.