December 2010, and our very first backpacking trip. [ 21 Pictures]
Our Mutha Hubba tent on it’s first outing at Berry Bend campground on Harry S. Truman Lake. We spent a long time researching and looking at tents. Each time we thought we’d found the one we wanted we saw another... Continue Reading →
We cheated on the fire. We didn’t want to spend a lot of time and energy gathering and cutting wood, so we bought some logs for $4 and I split them. We did light the fire backpacking style using cotton... Continue Reading →
This weekend we tried out our backpacking gear. Friday evening we took Alek, Katie, Emilie and Malaki to Kansas City for Happening. We needed to be on hand to collect them again Sunday afternoon, so we left Lanie in the... Continue Reading →
Getzger Cat realizes that the pictures of him sitting on the bed yesterday might end up on Facebook.
"Oh Getzger!" That's a fairly frequent exclamation here.
We decided to make the most of the nice weather and packed the van the previous night, got up extra early and loaded the Kayaks on the van before the school run. We were on the lake by 9.30am. We... Continue Reading →
Pre-Dawn at Table Rock Lake. We were up late watching the Perseids meteor shower, which we did by laying in the warm waters of Table Rock Lake. [2 pictures]
Still Waters - Waiting for the dawn on Table Rock Lake.
A couple of days break. With Mick heading back to the UK, we had a couple of days leisure time before we had to collect the girls at St Louis and then get ready to start back on the school... Continue Reading →
A fairly scrawny looking deer, but it didn’t appear to be at all put-out by us watching it for a while.
Despite the horrid heat, today we took Mick on a walk around the nature center. He enjoyed the birds, and we spent a long time watching a totally oblivious Muskrat foraging for food. One day I’ll get round to uploading... Continue Reading →
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