Not sure if there’s another name for this style of campfire (maybe “log cabin”?) but I’ve become a big fan of it this summer, partly because you can build it so big, sort of like the world’s most dangerous game of Jenga! 😉
The day after a fun pot luck supper with many of the seasonal campers who live near us on Saturday night, Shea and I got busted the next day trying to build a giant honeycomb fire (not lit) in the firepit of another couple whose husband is a particular aficionado of this style of fire (they’d run into Fort Qu’Appelle for supplies but pulled up at their camp site just as our tower was starting to reach out of their fire pit, not the five foot height we originally planned!) 🙂
We were out at the lake all weekend and just got back today (Tuesday) but I’m going to do a few quick backdated posts for the past few days starting with the Friday Fun Link I missed – Reddit’s r/solareclipse sub-Reddit which actually works really well as a delayed link because it now has lots of great images from Sunday’s solar eclipse.
Camping is a strange thing – you pay a lot of money to basically live in the wilderness with all the attendant dangers and risks.
This summer, we’ve had a few…
Pace hit himself in the face with a metal scooter while attempting a trick, cutting his face, giving himself a fat lip and loosening one tooth.
Pace fell on a hillside path and scratched his chest with a branch pretty good
Pace (see a theme here?) injured his wrist briefly after a wipe out at the Fort Qu’Appelle skate park. Â I initially feared a break but luckily it was just tender for awhile.
Sasha fell while running on the road in front of the campsite and scrapped her knee pretty good.
Sasha’s had a few “sand in the eyes” moments on the playground. Â My hope is that it’s not from kids throwing sand intentionally at her but just being careless as they dig wildly.
Both kids have been hit by a swing when not paying attention.
One cousin who was visiting had an accident on his bike and hurt his groin pretty bad.
I have had innumerable splinters because I keep forgetting to put on work gloves when I haul/chop wood (or even lifting logs from our wood pile to the fire can give a splinter if you’re not being careful/have a couple beers in you!)
I’ve also had a couple headaches in the morning through the summer but I’m not sure what caused those! 😉
At different times, Shea and I have both suffered through at least one weekend with a cold/sore throat/runny nose which is not fun at the best of times and especially when you’re camping.
I’m usually most susceptible but none of us have had any bad sunburns all summer though I did burn my nose one weekend.
(One fun highlight of our most recent weekend was watching him create various playlists on our streaming music service – one for rap songs, one for rock songs, one for pop songs.)
We’ve tried a few s’mores variations ourselves with a current favourite being “Exploding s’moreos” where we not only use an Oreo instead of a graham cracker but also the limited edition Fireworks Oreos that have pop rocks candy mixed in!
