All I can say about this past weekend is “Wild!” Everything about it was rip-roaring, frustrating, chaotic, dizzying, exciting, yet I would do it again if I could.
Most of our weekend was spent at Planter’s Point where we did a small amount of cleanup work, but mostly played on the four-wheelers with the kids. Those kids would have ridden the whole day and a half we were there if they could have — they loved riding! Hubby and No.1son cut new trails in the woods, then would take the bikes through the new trails. We rode so much that our hands hurt from holding the handlebars and pressing the gas.
There were only a couple of problems with the weekend. First of all, I didn’t feel the best in the world — I didn’t feel bad enough to stay home, just headachy, a little dizzy, tired, lethargic — probably a sinus infection coming on since the oak pollen is so high. All I wanted to do was lay down and sleep but I entertained the kids on the four-wheeler some and did some knitting on the poncho for Baby-Girl. The poncho’s main front and back portions were completed in a denim-blue color. I added a hood to the poncho in a light-mauve which went well with the blue. I think the poncho is absolutely precious! The blue color is the poncho portion, the light mauve is the hood, I almost knitted a light mauve pocket on the front of the poncho.
The second problem with the weekend was the lack of supplies. We forgot the charcoal to cook with. Luckily, there’s a Wal-Mart just a few miles down the road. We also forgot the sleeping bags, cook-stove, syrup. I don’t know what our problem was with packing for this past weekend, it’s not like we’ve never camped before — we have camped before plenty of times. We just couldn’t get our acts together and didn’t remember to ask each other if we remembered to pack “such-and-such.” That night, we paid for our sins memory-lapses — we nearly froze to death with only sheets to keep us warm. Hubby had towed the popup camper to the property the day before and being up off the ground protected us some. We wouldn’t have lasted the night on the ground. Hubby and I were in the queen-size bed on one end of the camper with a sheet and a lap-throw that was found in the SUV. GS2 and Baby Girl were on a bed in the middle of the camper with coats and thick clothing that we had with us. No.2son and GS1 slept on the full-size bed on the other end of the camper with a sheet covering them and a new tarp. You might laugh at that idea but the plastic tarp held the body heat in. Those boys were the warmest of the whole group.
An environmental event occurred which surprised Hubby and me. Caterpillars were in the trees by the thousands and I guess the caterpillars had just hatched and were gorging themselves in the lush green tender leaves that had just sprouted before falling by their silken threads to within a few feet from the ground before plopping to the ground.
Poor Baby Girl was almost traumatized by the “snakes” she called them. The fuzzy little colorful worms were everywhere — on the chairs, on the tables, plopping from overhead on to your shoulder while Baby Girl was crying “snake, snake” in every breath. I don’t think she’ll ever recover; we’ll probably have to drag her on to the property from now on.
This is a cocoon that the caterpillars came from. The cocoons were in the trees by the hundreds.
And for home-building purposes, we now have a drive-way in.
We are so excited. We have completed the next step towards building a home on this property.
