When you’ve got a trip planned with 40 of your favorite people to hang out with, you just don’t want to cancel because of a little rain! My babysitting exchange, which also includes the members of our bee co-op, likes to go camping every spring. This year the weather was not promising on the first […]
Dogs and Doughboys
Posted on July 3, 2016 Written by Leave a Comment
This year on our annual camping trip I was sitting with my young friend by the fire making doughboys and discussing why some people like dogs and some don’t. She’s a huge fan of dogs and told me she likes them so much because they are soft and cuddly and always like to play. I […]
Camping with Thermo-electric Generation (Powered SmartPhones)
Posted on July 29, 2015 Written by Leave a Comment
While camping over Memorial Day this year, I witnessed several people complaining about their SmartPhones (iPhones, etc.) and having to sit around the bathroom trying to get even to 20% charge. Last year Alicia and I had to coordinate who had the chargers and cables to plug in our iPhones so that we could keep […]
How to Easily Grill Corn on the Campfire
Posted on July 26, 2015 Written by 1 Comment
This year Ellie & Christor were old enough to actually help us plan for our annual camping trip, including participating in meal planning. They declared that they were going to make pancakes, and since I know that Ellie is perfectly capable of making pancakes at home by herself, that sounded great to me. She also put in […]
Getting Started Hiking
Posted on October 5, 2014 Written by 5 Comments
I’ve loved to hike since shortly after I started going to a summer camp at which you hike one or two mountains each summer and then after summer camp, my mother began dragging me up Mt Washington every year. I eventually became known as an expert hiker at camp, and I think it is perhaps the only […]
Camping With Friends
Posted on May 27, 2014 Written by 1 Comment
We love to camp. We’ve been camping every Memorial Day weekend with the same group of friends since long before we were married. Conveniently, some of our very good friends have children similar in age to ours, which has made continuing to have family outings together easy. Many of these outings have inspired camping posts from […]
Skip the Nitrites, Love the Meat
Posted on August 8, 2013 Written by 1 Comment
As we have learned more about eating healthy, we have been trying to limit the amount of nitrites and nitrates that our family consumes. Even though they are used in fertilizers and rodenticides, they are still allowed additives in food in the US, typically to preserve meats. Some studies show that higher concentrations of nitrites […]
Camping Desserts: Apple Crumble
Posted on May 27, 2013 Written by 5 Comments
We love to camp. We’ve been camping with a group of friends for years. In fact, it’s the group of friends that Alicia used to camp and rock climb with back in high school. Before any of us had kids we used to go for hiking trips where we would camp at a campground at […]
Reusable Dishes or Disposable?
Posted on May 29, 2012 Written by 4 Comments
Going camping? Should you take paper plates and cups and plastic silverware, or should buy special camping dishes and silverware? Which is more green? What is the right thing to do? Like most things that are “green” the answer is, it depends. Much of this discussion is about camping, however, many of these reasons hold […]
Is Your Gear Ready? Prepping for Camping
Posted on May 20, 2012 Written by 3 Comments
We love to go camping! If you’re a regular reader of our blog you’ve probably picked up on this already, given the number of posts we’ve done about camping. How often we camp depends on a number of things, but we have an annual camping trip with friends that we look forward to all year, […]
