Wimpy Campers

We spent the weekend in Ohio with our daughter, Cheryl, and her family. The main purpose for going this weekend was Arianna's baptism on Sunday morning but it expanded to stretch from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.

Gerald and Kelly were looking for a place to go camping that was not a campground. Cheryl said they have plenty of room to camp on the thirty acres they own above their house. They would pull their camper up the hill for Gerald and Kelly to use. They snapped up the offer and went with us. 

We got there a little after 7pm on Friday. Richard had the camper in place and a blazing fire ready to make mountain pies for supper. We hurried to make them because a thunderstorm was coming. 

We got some mountain pies eaten but retreated to the house when it was obvious the rain was coming. After it blew over, we went out again and made more mountain pies. I totally trashed my less-carbs diet. Gerald and Kelly slept in the camper but we are wimpy campers and went down to the house to sleep.

Cheryl said it had been in the 90s all week but the thunderstorm broke the trail for fall to arrive. There was an abrupt change Saturday morning and we needed jackets. We went up the hill to the campsite where Gerald had a fire ready to make breakfast. It was about 9:30 when we had breakfast but we couldn't believe how much food the seven of us put away. Must have been the cooler air and campfire that induced us to go through two dozen eggs, two pounds of bacon, a dozen sausages, coffee cake and cinnamon rolls.

The men went fishing in Richard's dad's pond.

The women went to watch a bit and Kelly even tried her hand at fishing.

While they were fishing, the women went to a coffee shop and to see the bulk food and deli store where Arianna works. Angie was surprised I had never been to a coffee shop. I decided to splurge and see how a latte tastes. It was good but I am much too tight to spend $3.75 for a cup of coffee unless it's an emergency.

The men came back with a string of ten fish for our supper. Josh caught the most but Gerald got a few too and Leroy caught two. They spent the rest of the afternoon shooting clay birds up at the campsite. We just watched them having fun blowing up their money.

Raindrops were threatening so the women went in the house to prepare supper. The shooting went on until it started getting dark. Then the men came to grill the steaks and Josh fried the fish.

It was a privilege to be able to be at Arianna's baptism Sunday morning. She was one of a class of six young people who were baptized. May all of them be faithful to the vows they made and grow in their walk with Christ.

We all went back to the house for lunch and then headed home as soon as possible. It was a good weekend of sort-of (for us) camping. Gerald thought his nephews enjoyed it and maybe they should do it again next year. Maybe we will---as long as I can sleep in the house!