SATURDAY UNDER THE PINES
Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 7:03 am
Molly in her camping hut!
Good morning to us all!
It's a nice cool morning at 55 degrees here at the campground, and many people with many dogs came in yesterday. Molly has been having a ball playing with some of them in the doggy playyard----a fenced-in area where they can all run and chase balls, etc.!
I visited with my friend, Kathy, who lives just around the corner from this campground yesterday afternoon, and we got caught up on our latest lives. Her kids and their families are coming for the weekend, and they invited me over for the cookout....I will decide on that later, but will surely go over for a visit as I haven't seen her three girls in a long time. I will also drive over to visit more long-time friends today and take some pictures of the house (once a log cabin when I lived in it) where I was living when my daughter, Mandy, was born. It is such a beautiful place over there. The other friend and her family I have known since elementary school, and we both moved up here after graduation from college to live in a tent until the snows flew in the winters.
I am going to move out to the picnic table with my coffee, as it's so nice to be able to sit out there and not get bitten by black flies! THERE! So nice out here under these stately white pines!
Little Hope and her mom, Lily, are wandering together, playing as they did before the separation, and dispelling the worries of so many who believed Lily would no longer want her baby. I believe it was the misfortune to have that horrendous rainstorm that obliterated Hope's scent that COULD have meant her starving, her mother no longer able to produce the much-needed milk, and then the inevitable estrus cycle beginning all over again. This would have meant the loss of a very important member of this bear research that Dr. Rogers, (Lynn) is conducting.
I hope your weekend is as nice as it is here in the Adirondacks, and that you will have company and/or family to share the cookout fare this vacation is famous for! I think the pig roast for the campground is tomorow, but maybe it's today. Will have to get a schedule and see.
Stop by for coffee, and tell us about your day!
Dang I wish we had reservations for this weekend, but 90 days ago when reservations had to be made our camper was still surrounded with 8' foot drifts. DH was afraid that he was going to have a late planting season so when the Memorial Day organizer (I'm the 4th of July organizer) was making the reservations for this weekend we told them to pass on us. Well wouldn't you know...snow melted...fields dryed up fast and planting has been done for a week! Just can't second guess Mother Nature. But Radar and I did sleep in the camper last night....we like to play pretend! 
Anyhoo...he had me on my side and working on my hips pressed down and I passed gas... 
Thought I was going to die of embrassment! But I felt better and so did my back! 
No big plans for the weekend, just getting together with some friends, so it will be nice.