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31 Monday Jul 2023

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on Friday evening I brought the lounger onto the deck and put a number of comforters on it…

Friday night…

then, once it was dark I headed out for my version of camping, lol…

had a pretty good sleep and enjoyed looking at the stars whenever I woke up during the night… and there were no mosquitoes;-)…

Saturday morning…

the weather looked good and that went so well that I decided to sleep out again on Saturday night…

around 4:30 am drops began to land on me😳, and shortly thereafter all of the paraphernalia was on the kitchen floor and I headed upstairs to my bed, lol…

stars…

10 Monday Jul 2023

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as I was sitting in the hot tub on Saturday night and watching the few stars that I am able to see from there, I was reminded of a Saturday night we spent at the lake…

we went out, with blankets and warm clothes, and laid on the couch on the cliff deck and watched the stars through the tree canopy…

it was a beautiful night with few bugs and the sky was spectacular…

we saw satellites, constellations, and shooting stars… even some fireflies;-)…

and I even got a few photos with my iPhone…

Maui, day twelve…

22 Monday Apr 2019

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interesting day…

started early with breakfast of hard boiled eggs and mini eggs (from the Easter bunny) before leaving to drive across the island to the airport…

we stopped at the little cafe next to where we are staying to get hot chocolate and tea for the drive… what we received was iced chocolate and black tea without milk and sweetener…

we arrived at the heliport in ample time for our flight and got all the way to the exit door when we were told that the video equipment wasn’t working so we would need to wait while it was repaired… we waited for an hour, finally got into the helicopter… took off and immediately returned to the pad as a light was on that shouldn’t have been… then they cancelled the flight and rebooked us for a few days later, sigh…

we did spend a lovely afternoon in a sister facility to our hotel where we lay by the pool and enjoyed slushy drinks…

we walked along the Main Street in Lahaina and had appetizers at two different places for our supper… at the second one, I dumped my water glass all over the table… our wait person said “sh*t happens”… kind of felt it covered much of the day’s activities, lol…

ended the evening listening to the waves and watching the stars…

camping, day four…

13 Monday Aug 2018

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last night we spent about an hour laying in the boat watching the Perseid Meteor shower… the boys gave up and went to bed after about an hour, but I watched for nearly three hours… some of them were amazing…

this morning the boys got up around 9:30, had cereal for breakfast, packed up snacks and then we headed over to the beach…

only the second time I’ve been in the water since Friday, lol… very refreshing…

back to the camper for lunch of peanut butter and raspberry jam sandwiches…

a relaxing afternoon of playing at the park and sitting around the campsite… much cooler than yesterday, which was a relief…

the daddy arrived and brought fresh supplies and we sat and read for a while… had a great supper of chicken, cooked cauliflower, gravy, raw cucumbers and carrots…

it rained for a few minutes as we did the dishes, but now we have a roaring fire going…

sleepout…

31 Tuesday Jul 2018

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last night I had my annual sleepout…

I miss camping and this is a fun way to get the feeling… also a great opportunity to see the stars;-)…

it is a process and I left it a bit late to get organized… it was dark by the time I brought up the air mattress from the basement… I always put down a comforter underneath to be sure that no slivers puncture the mattress…

I couldn’t find the cap that goes on once it was filled with air… searched upstairs where it had last been set up but could not find the cap… came downstairs thinking there wasn’t going to be a sleepout… started to take out the pump, only to discover the cap was on a string which was inside where the pump was, lol… clearly I should have done the set up in the light…

then it was on to bringing up comforters and bringing down pillows…

had a great sleep, although the mattress went down a bit, likely because it cooled off a bit… not a single mosquito, woo hoo…

a lovely view to wake up to… took everything down, put things away, had a hot tub and then the sky clouded over…

great timing… looks like it will be overcast and rainy most of the day…

heavens…

06 Friday Oct 2017

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of course, on a day off I woke up at 5:30, so I headed out for a hot tub…

the heavens were amazing and the moon was huge… the stars were very bright and I was able to get a picture of Orion’s Belt…

considering it was on my phone it came out pretty good, lol…

the streetlight shining on the lawn furniture was also lovely…

as I was driving toward my appointment this morning the moon looked like it was close enough to touch…

happy I stopped and took a few photos, because by the time I got out of the car, it was gone…

had a nap this afternoon;-)…

stargazing…

06 Sunday Aug 2017

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been planning to spend a night sleeping under the stars for a while and tonight is the night…

it was a lovely day and I spent a good part of it in the garden watching a red squirrel stash peanuts from the neighbour’s feeder…

there’s been a hole beside the back deck for a while and today this little guy spent time going into and out of it, lol…


now we know for sure who lives there…

my bed is nearly ready for tonight… just have to bring out the pillows…


the plan is to be in bed for the 9:36 fly past of the Space Station and then maybe a late night hot tub… looking forward to some great stargazing in the night;-)…

wildlife…

10 Monday Aug 2015

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last night I spent an hour on the ground looking up at the stars… what a great ending to my camping trip… below is the birthday boy and his mom…

  
he and I spotted the space station and two satellites… we checked out some constellations and talked about the Perceids meteor shower which they should be able to see during the week…

during the night there were skunks, raccoons and even a wolf wandering around… my daughter and I didn’t sleep so well with all the wildlife visits, but my son-in-law slept through it all, lol…

after breakfast we spent some time at the beach and fishing… watched a bald eagle sitting on the top of a tree across from the beach, which was one of the few places where you could usually connect with the Internet… the campsites were not so good for that… 

  
my daughter and I headed home around 4:30… about half way here the phone started to beep and ping as Facebook, Instagram and all my other apps started to reconnect, lol… 

stopped at the Half Moon for a burger and shared a few fries and onion rings…

watered my plants and watched a lovely dragonfly on the window’s edge…

 
had a great time, but happy to be home… not expecting any wildlife bothering me tonight…

camping…

03 Friday Jul 2015

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been waiting for a nice evening to go camping… 

on the deck…

tonight is the night… might not see any stars as it is still hazy, but you never know…

only concern is the mosquitoes… I do have a great comforter that can go over my head if necessary…

fun little adventure… I’ve been needing something special and am looking forward to going to sleep to the sound of the waterfall…

although there is a concert in the Park at the Lyric so I might be going to sleep to the sounds of Streetheart, lol…

  

we shall see…

was thinking back to our many camping experiences… we used heavy canvas tents, light nylon tents, a pop up trailer, and sometimes hotels… great fun over the years… enjoyed Birds Hill, Hecla, Falcon Lake, Rushing River and Sioux Narrows…

looking forward to spending a few days camping with the kids this summer… 

but I do plan to bring my air bed:-)…

moon…

11 Monday Aug 2014

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just finished a great hot tub with a couple of my BS buddies…

the sky was clear and as we were chatting one of us spotted the space station crossing the sky…

I now get email notifications advising what time it will be passing overhead… this is helpful because I’ve seen it a few times but not been positive that’s what it was…

sometimes it is huge and bright and then it gets tiny and dull… I think it must be turning…

tonight, even though the moon is nearly full, the stars in the sky are amazing… often I can only see five or six… way more tonight… maybe on Friday or Saturday I will sleep on the deck…

the mosquitoes chased me in just as the moon rose over the trees…

last night I took a few shots of the moon through clouds on my phone… must have spent half an hour watching it out the bedroom window… picture doesn’t do it justice…

IMG_7184.JPGbeautiful…