Dear Diary

Finally quit sprinkling in the afternoon.  Jax spent the night with us and was up bright and cheerful for his full day of camping.  He got to spend some time before the rain with Papa in the campground park.  Slides got another full wipe down with towels meaning Gma has some laundry to do when we get home.

Visited the 

Hooved animals today.  bisom were more than willing to eat the carrots and apples we provided but the elk missed out.  Jax got a kick out of feeding them and attempting to throw the apples over the high fence.

He took an afternoon nap in his own bed, then Brought his mom, dad and little brother to the campground for supper and a campfire with s’mores although he sees no necessity in toasting the marshmallows.

The set up of Lake Jacomo, the campground and Fleming Park is perfect.  I will assume the area is very busy in the summer.  We will be back!

Home in the morning for some R&R!

Until next time….

Dear Diary

Pretty discouraging chance of rain today but really only had a couple of mild showers and it moved on…the sun would come out then back to clouds and dark sky.  About 9p we started the heaviest rain of the day and I had to leave the bonfire.  My sprinkle and rain look.

We tried to visit the 1855 town that is incorporated into the Lake Jacomo/Fleming Park but it is closed on Monday…just like hair salons and a lot of mom/pop restaurants.  Did drive thru the wildlife area to see the buffalo but didn’t get out of the car…didn’t have carrots or apples and didn’t have Jax with us.  That will be Tues or Wed.  We did find a sailboat cove with lots of sailboats and an unbelievably nice shelter house….we enjoyed the solitude and the peacefulness of the moored sailboats gently floating on the water.

He took a hike into,the woods and I sat outside and read this afternoon…peace.

My camping jacket.  bought it at Bennett Spring in 2000 and campfire pops burned holes in it a month later.  Seldom wash it and will never get rid of it!

I know….I’m a prize when I’m camping 😉

That’s all today…..

A really nice spring day and we are camping!

Temps in the 60s this week…

While sitting around the campfire, we had visitors

They didn’t seemed to have any fear until a dog barked in a neighboring campsite.  Then they were back just mosey-ing along the treeline.

This is a beautiful lake and campground in Lee’s Summit.  Hard to believe this oasis is so close to the hustle of life.

until next time…….

And I’m not listening.  We’ve all heard the stories about people missing planes for whatever reason and the plane crashes or some other catastrophe that was averted because something else happened.  That fear has been hanging around my neck since Saturday.

The plan was:  my friend, Suzy, came down from Des Moines for a birthday weekend…then…he and I were going to leave Sunday for a week of camping at Bennett Spring Park near Lebanon, MO.   We weren’t able to do a lot of things I had planned in my mind because of rain.  Lots of wet, heavy rain.  We had a good  time In spite of the weather but we kept hearing about rain and flooding in Southern Missouri.  I just knew in the back of my mind that this was going to suck!  Sure enough the campground was  flooded as well as a lot of people trying to get their lives back to normal with significant damage to their homes and cars.

Back to my woes.

We decided Monday morning that since we weren’t going to Bennett and eat trout that we would load up and head over into Kansas.  Just an hours drive to a large lake with several campgrounds…but in the back of my mind I had an uneasy feeling that maybe everything was pointing to this being a bad idea.  Various little complications like a cat vomiting 3 times in a row.  We went.

With no particular information, we found a campground with full hook up.  NO trees.  No place to buy wood.  No one outside enjoying the evening.  More like an RV park on the prairie where everyone set up camp and went somewhere else….or were all murdered in their campers and  no one checked.  Always a novel in my head.  When I heard the forecast for 100 percent chance of rain again, I went into angst and pissy mode and told him I wanted to just go home.  This morning he agreed and now we are home.  I feel relief, I feel calm and I feel content.  Still don’t know what I was mental flapping about in my head….perhaps nothing…perhaps I finally listened and averted tragedy.  I do have new fodder for the novel I probably will never write.

Until next time.