And so winds down the first day of the Outdoorfest.
I had to throw in a little tip o’ the hat to Charles Schulz. I am, categorize me any way you like, a cartoonist. And I’m old enough to remember that I wanted to learn to read partly so I would know what Charlie Brown was saying. After drawing three sets of ‘And then the rain started’ cartoons, it was time to wrap that up… but I couldn’t get Charlie Brown on his pitcher’s mound out of my head, so I put it on paper, sorta. That usually gets it out of my head, anyhow.
Also, it’s 12-12-12. Anybody care? Has the world ended? No? Well, Australia would have called or something if things were going wrong. It was 12-12-12 there yesterday. Now we gotta wait out 12-21-12 and see if the New-Ager “Raise-Your-Vibrations” crowd gets their monumental Ascendance or Transcendence or whatever the %$#@ they’re expecting. Can you tell if I expect they’re gonna get it?
Oh, and I’d like to point out that I have tried to skate on a wet ramp. The rain WON’T hurt you. The wet ramp, on the other hand, can snap a bone for you.
Pow. There you go.
Put sandpaper on the wheels. Problem fixed.
I would be the guy putting sand on the paper int the port-a-lets.
Oh Greg, you block head. 😛
Poor Paste…
12? Not care.
You know, the more I look at those tents, the more I really wish I could go camping again. I haven’t camped in a tent in decades. Find a place with good bouldering in Joshua Tree and just go native for a few weeks…
Tempting to just shout “Let’s All Go!!”
So let’s all go!
Last time I did that we had put our tent up in our allocated campsite and it was … hardpan … then it decided to open up and rain. We went elsewhere for 3 hours and returned to find my pickaxe mining of a drainage moat and runoff channel before the flood started had been in much vain… and the airmattress inside the tent was now a freefloating raft, at five minutes to pitch black. It continued to rain until about dawn and I smartly grabbed the surplus wool army blankets-emergency blankets-from the car. Those WILL dry out from your body heat and keep you warm even IF the soggy tentside keeps slapping you all night. Spouse used the high tech fill sleeping bag and slept in soggy misery. Might be the best birth control ever invented, but don’t laugh at my wool blankets… um… maybe that’s why I haven’t slept in a tent since 2000… hm.
Lets go Canadian Winter Tent camping!!!
Paste looks like Charlie Brown, screaming.
Exactly. I actually went and found one of the Charlie Brown baseball cartoons where he’s standing in the rain, scanned and sized it and put it on the light table to get it just right.