...the weekend approaches, and as I mentioned earlier in the week, Scout Boy and I will be heading for the wilderness with his troop tomorrow to spend a couple of days frightening the small animals. It's supposed to be a whole family campout, but the girls are content to let us go off and be savages for a day or two, which is just as well since the idea is for each Scout to take care of the cooking and comfort needs of his family for the entire time. Now I can wrangle five other people, but Boy might be a bit out of his league on that one. Taking care of himself and one old chubby guy is probably more his speed.
ANYway, he gets to cook my meals for me, which should be interesting since he's going to try to make pizza and cookies. Mexican pizza, at that. I keep trying to remind him that we don't quite have the necessary equipment to bake anything, but he's pretty determined what he's got planned will work. I have a feeling I will be giving some assistance. Anyway, we'll have sandwiches for lunch tomorrow, then our evening meal of Mexican pizza and salad with cookies, then sausage omelets for breakfast Sunday.
The rest of the time will be spent doing Scoutish things, I suppose. Looks like a whole lot of free time in there, judging by the schedule, and I'm not quite sure Boy is quite aware of just how long that can last when you don't have a television or a Game Boy and are expected to run around in the woods for hours on end.
BUT, that's okay. I think it'll be pretty fun, as long as I can manage to stay warm and dry and free of chiggers and ticks. And I can tell you that modern camping beats the heck out of campaign-style reenacting--nothing will remind you of your age quite so much as sleeping on frozen ground with nothing but a thin wool blanket around you. Which is one of the reasons I don't do that anymore--war is for young men, and so is dressing up and playing at it.
SO, anyway, that's the plan for this weekend. All of you have a good time and Lord willing we'll see each other again come Monday.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 27, 2006 04:07 PMYeah I like camping too but sleeping on the ground, NOT! Anyway this page holds what IMO what old chubby men need for a good nights sleep. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/subcategory/subcategory.jsp?id=cat601644 Now if it only came w/someone to carry and set up the dangged mess.
Posted by: Tony von Krag at October 28, 2006 02:09 AMWell, there's the thing--there's a fine line between being comfortable, and being more comfortable than it's worth. I figure an air mattress and a nice 20 degree sleeping bag work well enough. You also don't have to worry about falling out of it, like you would a cot.
But no more sleeping on the ground for me.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 30, 2006 01:05 PM