Camping

Hello my friends. Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been commenting on your blogs the past couple of days. That’s because I don’t have my laptop with me and we are out camping. We sure do love this camping as retired people. You can camp during the week when there’s no one else here! We have been at Lewis and Clark State Park in Iowa for the past couple of days. It is so pretty here. Our cousins and good friends Curt and Barb are camped right next to us. We’ve been having a great time sharing meals and taking walks. Today we drove to our church camp that is across the lake and wandered around there. Dennis has been there for several workdays, but I had never been to the camp before.  When we lived here before, Mandy and Jamie went to a church camp south of Omaha, this one is about one hour north. It is a beautiful place. Dennis and I have already booked three more nights here at the State Park very soon before the season ends. We’ve decided that will be our last trip out for the season, unless we’re lucky enough to go south at some point this winter.

Here we are sitting outside Curt and Barb‘s camper. They just bought it this spring and have been out a lot in this little trailer this summer. It’s very cute but does not have a bathroom in it. I love having my own bathroom. I don’t have to worry about the cleanliness of public bathrooms. This is a pop-up, but without the typical canvas sides. They like to camp in the mountains like we do and so they needed a hard sided camper because the bears, mountain lions and cougars.

There’s our truck and the camper. The sites here were very, very large. There was plenty of room for us to spread out. The first two nights there were only two other campers in the entire campground.

Did you notice that gorgeous red tree above Curt and Barb‘s camper? The fall colors this weekend are absolutely perfect.

This was our campfire last night. Zoey enjoyed it as much as we did.

Gorgeous beautiful golden leaves.🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

And just look at the trees across the lake. The church camp it’s just to the right of this view.

And this was our campfire tonight. We played trivia and Family Feud around the fire. By the time we came inside at 10:00 it was down to 57°F. Tomorrow night is supposed to be below freezing. Brrrr.

I did manage to finish a pair of Christmas socks. They are made with a simple 2 x 2 ribbing down the leg and then a plain foot. Before we left yesterday, I finished a new cardigan for Miss “J” in London that will be part of her Christmas gift. I have also begun working on another prayer shawl identical to the one I finished last week. I need to buy yarn when I get home to make Miss Piper a new sweater for Christmas. Technically I have finished everything I was making for Christmas, but decided to add a sweater for Miss Piper and Miss “J” because I have time and I know Piper loves the sweaters.

We are absolutely loving our time in the trailer and enjoying the beautiful crisp fall weather. We are so thankful that God has blessed us with a beautiful place we can come camping. We also have wonderful people who volunteer to watch our house for us while we’re gone and we really appreciate that too.

I hope you are all having a wonderful week. Take care and stay safe.

Blessings and love,

Betsy