It's been a long time since I've been to the blog. Good intentions get side tracked by real life.

It's been three weeks ago (April 25) we took the 2010 maiden camping voyage, just a short ways to Thomas Mitchell park. However, the weather forecast was not good. We took the camper on Friday night and knew it was going to rain so left the camper and came home and grilled steaks and ate at home. The rest of the evening was spent playing cards with friends and family. Later Friday night Wendy, Joe and Hayley arrived from Minnesota. Saturday the sun came out and the women piled in the Suburban for a trip to the mall. The sun was out. By the time we got back to the campground we had a couple of hours before the thretening weather started again. This weather was worse than Friday night's rain. We ended up eating supper at our house again. We moved the car out of the garage and spent the rest of the evening sitting in the garage on lawn chairs visiting and listening to the radio from Jim's pickup. There were about 12 adults. Even though we weren't able to sit around a campfire, we had a great time. Sunday morning, the planned breakfast was all at the camper so I drove to the park and retrieved breakfast. We spent zero time at the camper but still had a fantastic weekend spending it with family and friends. Sunday when we got into the pickup to go back and get the camper to bring home, the pickup wouldn't start because it had been on accessory too long playing the radio. We just sat in the pickup and laughed,pbut the battery charger on and waited a couple of hours. It was a disaster of a weekend as far as camping is concerned but an overwhelming success for the good times and memories we made.

This weekend John and Kari and some friends camped out over at the farm. Saturday was cool and very windy, but Saturday night was a little better and today is beautiful. So far camping experiences this season have been less than ideal but we'll try again soon.

Today is Mother's Day. Mike and Leah went to Spencer. I was on Hunter detail so I put him in the backseat of the car and took him to the farm to run off some energy (and to keep him from eating his usual diet of remote controls when they're gone). David and Alicia joined us at the farm for a little campfire and a tractor tour of the farm to talk about different places to put a pond in the future. Later this afternoon there will be a trip to the ice cream store and then I'll have to go to work for a little bit.