Happy Monday everyone!
It was a crazy busy weekend for us. We left on Friday at about 5:00 pm to head for John Bryan State Park for a camping weekend with some of the couples from our small group. It was a blast! I’ll give a brief overview now with more details with pics later.
Friday night: Arrival, Set up, Start the fire, Dinner, Clean up, Hanging out at the campfire, Bedtime
Friday night: a visit from raccoons woke a number of us up.
Saturday: Breakfast, Hiking, Lunch, Hanging out, Games, Youngs Dairy, Cornhole, Dinner, Games/Hanging out, Bedtime
Saturday night: we were exhausted and slept hard!
Sunday: Breakfast, cleanup, Broke camp, left John Bryan
See…it was a fun and busy weekend! After we left, we went to my parents house in Cedarville to shower and clean up (John Bryan has less than stellar “facilities”!). We stayed for Sunday dinner; Deb and the girls came over, too, because Chris was at a NASCAR race with Indy for the day with Deb’s brother. They left, we picked some green beans from the garden and headed home. We relaxed for most of the evening…very enjoyable!
Today, my plans include a trip to WalMart, unpacking and sorting our piles of stuff, doing laundry (everything smells like camp/smoke), and attempting to can the green beans we got yesterday. That’s right, I think I’m going to try my hand at pressure cooker canning. Wish me luck!!
No, all my stuff definitely smells like campfire smoke!!
^I forgot about the ham girl. Funny.^ So Shannah, did you think all your stuff smelled like ham?
We had a student once(7th grade) whose family heated with wood. Evidently the flue had a problem, because Sara came to school several days smoky. The English teacher came into my room at break and asked why Sara smelled like ham!!! LOL!
My discovery about canning is that stores sell all those vegetables. Fresh and canned.
Hot wayter bath for green beans works just as well as pressure canning and it’s easier. Good luck however you do it!
Good luck canning!!
What are you going to WalMart for?
did you get rained on when you were camping? we had crazy storms here!!
Kelly and Elijah did very well together! The little girls came close to getting trampled and didn’t love the splashing as much, though! That’s okay; I got them Goldfish!
Elijah somehow remembered Kelly from previous trips, so apparently he’d been asking about her on the way down. It ended up working out perfectly. Deb had just enough time to bring them over before the guys got back from golfing.
Isn’t canning a lot of work? I love the result, though!
So you didn’t get rained on? Sounds like a fun trip. Happy pressurizing–hope it goes well.