October 30, 2006
GRRR!!
Mu.nu is acting up and ate my entire post! ARRGGHHHH!!
Well, dang. I hate it when that happens, because I never can get my thoughts together again when it does. Well, poop.
Anyway, I'm just going to have to give you a list of the pictures with a brief caption for right now--I've got work work to do, and don't have time to go back through and make a whole new post. GRRR!!
Also, since Mu.nu has been acting up, I can't upload any pictures, so I'm relying on my fallback Photobucket account. I'm just going to go ahead and post the entire image below the jump, so if you have a slow connection, please be patient and let them load.
Okay, here is bedraggled Boy as we set off on our expedition--
The place we camped was a very nice 31-acre spread alongside Logan Martin Lake that belongs to the sister of one of the Scout leaders. Or it did--they just sold it, meaning this is the last year we’ll be able to use it.
Here is Jonathan proudly displaying his tent-pitching skills--
After the boys changed out of their uniforms and had some lunch and some free time
--it was time for the exhaustive battery of team relays. Here the boys pretend to listen to the rules.
And here is Jonathan participating in the cracker-chewing-then-whistling relay.
He is accompanied by Sparky, who belongs to the man whose sister owns the place. Sparky appeared to be approximately 114 years old, and had two speeds--waddle and stop. Sparky looked to be a cross between a pug, a bulldog, and a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig. He liked crackers.
Our team eventually won. After that, Boy decided to sit down and sketch some--
This is the view he was looking at.
After that, suppertime. Here he prepares sausage for his faux Mexican pizza, which was really more of a quesadilla. Or pizzadilla, as he called them.
After supper, the campfire, and I went to bed early because I was cold and sleepy. Sunday was a bit warmer, but Sunday morning was still rather frigid. Pretty, though--here’s the fog rising off the lake as I poked my head out the tent on Sunday morning.
All in all, a wonderful trip, but I was glad to get back home, too. And I wish this stupid blog server was working right, because I said a whole lot more than that. HMPH!
Great pictures. I noticed two things that really struck me (or I think they stood out, anyway): 1) Jonathan looks a LOT like you, doesn't he? and 2) There is more fall color in those hills where you guys were camping than I had realized there was in North-Central Alabama.
Thanks for sharing these with us.
Posted by: Stan at October 30, 2006 01:46 PMActually, he looks a lot more like his mama. Rebecca is the one who favors me the most. And as for color, I-20 from Birmingham to Pell City is really pretty right now--my camera doesn't do it justice.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 30, 2006 01:53 PM