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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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sit around the campfire
kick back on a log and grab some of these over size marshmallows to grill to a toasty brown and enjoy 
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| July 30, 2011, 04:14 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
Oh yeah, just the sounds of crackling fire, rushing water from the river, those tiny little frogs along the bank,
Waking up to some one making coffee and frying bacon.
I don't have a sleeping bag, someone bring an extra please.
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| July 30, 2011, 12:01 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
Chazzy, I have an extra for ya. I haven't been campng for years. Crackling sounds of the fire, smoke getting in your eyes. making smores. The great outdoors..  
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| July 30, 2011, 14:00 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
campfire coffee... good times
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| July 30, 2011, 14:31 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
Bass all day, catfishing at night.
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| July 30, 2011, 14:35 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
night fishing is the best,, sipping coffee, a late nite swim, all this talk makes me wanna throw the tent in the pickup & go
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| July 30, 2011, 15:06 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
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Many Glacier Campground,
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The Campsites at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort,
Disney World, Fla.
Oregon Trail Wagon Train Campground, Bayard, Neb.
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| July 30, 2011, 17:42 |
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (NRG4U @ July 30, 2011, 15:06)night fishing is the best,, sipping coffee, a late nite swim, all this talk makes me wanna throw the tent in the pickup & go
Lake or River?
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| July 30, 2011, 18:31 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (Chazzy @ July 30, 2011, 18:31) QUOTE (NRG4U @ July 30, 2011, 15:06)night fishing is the best,, sipping coffee, a late nite swim, all this talk makes me wanna throw the tent in the pickup & go
Lake or River?
lake, I love taking the boat out on the lake at nite, drop a couple lights in the water & fish for white bass & walleye
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| July 30, 2011, 18:55 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
Use to go camping on a big ole private lake, just down the road. It was nice, lots of woods to hike in all day, a nice clearing and boat dock ,my dog sure loved to go swimming,
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| July 30, 2011, 20:13 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (Chazzy @ July 30, 2011, 20:13)Use to go camping on a big ole private lake, just down the road. It was nice, lots of woods to hike in all day, a nice clearing and boat dock ,my dog sure loved to go swimming,
Thats kinda like my lake, i have a small dock, a canoe & a peddle boat there, love to swim & have BBQ's there
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| July 30, 2011, 20:27 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
Someone needs to bring a fiddle or harmonica.
I'm not that good of a cook, so who knows how to make hushpuppies to go with the fish?
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| July 30, 2011, 21:12 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
i cant play either of those, how about a guitar?? But i can cook just fine
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| July 30, 2011, 21:25 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
Guitar is fine!
Whatcha got left in your garden, some fresh home grown stuff?
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| July 30, 2011, 21:29 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (Chazzy @ July 30, 2011, 21:29)Guitar is fine!
Whatcha got left in your garden, some fresh home grown stuff?
garden isnt a very accurate description...lol, small field is more like it, 3 acres of corn,tomatoes, cukes, onions, okra, squash, melons & peppers
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| July 30, 2011, 21:43 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
how ya keep the weeds out of that?
we just had a storm come though and it drying out again
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| July 30, 2011, 22:43 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
1st, I plant the rows wide enough to get the tiller through it, 2nd, I use a mesh fiber to help control the weeds,, which leaves very little weeds to hoe
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| July 30, 2011, 23:18 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
Well, bring plenty of tomatoes and melons (No, no melons for you, Free)
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| July 31, 2011, 00:23 |
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NRG4U
63 / male
Beaver City, Nebraska, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
he's thinkin of different kind of melons...lol
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| July 31, 2011, 00:27 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
He's Free and sleazy....he doesn't care what kind of melons.
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| July 31, 2011, 13:10 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
had to go get some rope hotdogs tonight as i was reading about hotdogs yesterdasy not being good for you now they were saying they cause cancer and have too much fat and sodum and they do....
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| August 2, 2011, 03:36 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (ashkats @ August 2, 2011, 03:36)had to go get some rope hotdogs tonight as i was reading about hotdogs yesterdasy not being good for you now they were saying they cause cancer and have too much fat and sodum and they do....
If we all stop eating and drinking what is bad for us or causes cancer or whatever,we wouldn't eat, drink or breath.
I happen to hate hot-dogs (except when I'm pregnant or the occasional (I mean like once every five years or so ) craving for a Nathans Frankfurter from Coney Island in Brooklyn or a dirty water hot dog.But still there is the belief that you should enjoy life as long as you don't kill yourself doing it. So enjoy that hot dog just do it in moderation. Besides next week there will be a new study that it cures something else.
Just out of curiosity, did anyone ever eat a hot dog thinking it was actually healthy? Lets get real that would be like saying I ate chocolate in the amounts I have my entire life because I thought it would make me skinny. I don't need a study to tell me It's fattening, and I'm sure no-one needs the study to say that hot-dogs are fatty and filled with crap. So save the money on the studies and use it for something that makes sense.
So go out to the campfire and cook and enjoy. Just don't read the studies that say that the fire causes cancer because of all the carcinogens. See I just saved someone thousands on a study.
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| August 2, 2011, 06:26 |
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (NRG4U @ July 31, 2011, 00:27)he's thinkin of different kind of melons...lol
There's more than 1 kind? Who knew?
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| August 2, 2011, 11:24 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
well i dont like honnydew, then them there over size marshmellows , their as big as a babby food jar
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| August 4, 2011, 01:27 |
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niceguy29
44 / male
Winnemucca, Nevada, US
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Re: Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (newbie1011 @ August 2, 2011, 06:26) QUOTE (ashkats @ August 2, 2011, 03:36)had to go get some rope hotdogs tonight as i was reading about hotdogs yesterdasy not being good for you now they were saying they cause cancer and have too much fat and sodum and they do....
If we all stop eating and drinking what is bad for us or causes cancer or whatever,we wouldn't eat, drink or breath.
I happen to hate hot-dogs (except when I'm pregnant or the occasional (I mean like once every five years or so ) craving for a Nathans Frankfurter from Coney Island in Brooklyn or a dirty water hot dog.But still there is the belief that you should enjoy life as long as you don't kill yourself doing it. So enjoy that hot dog just do it in moderation. Besides next week there will be a new study that it cures something else.
Just out of curiosity, did anyone ever eat a hot dog thinking it was actually healthy? Lets get real that would be like saying I ate chocolate in the amounts I have my entire life because I thought it would make me skinny. I don't need a study to tell me It's fattening, and I'm sure no-one needs the study to say that hot-dogs are fatty and filled with crap. So save the money on the studies and use it for something that makes sense.
So go out to the campfire and cook and enjoy. Just don't read the studies that say that the fire causes cancer because of all the carcinogens. See I just saved someone thousands on a study.
The way I see it is that I'll eat, drink, and breathe whatever I please rather than stressing out about calories, fat, carbs, sodium, potassium, and whatever else doctors want everyone to look at in the "nutritional information" that is supposed to be on every product out there. I'd spend so much extra time in the supermarket if I did that. I'd also end up stressing myself out so much trying to keep track of everything that I'd probably have a stroke or heart attack before I turn 40. How healthy is it now? If people don't like my decision, just remember that it's my life, not yours.
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| August 7, 2011, 21:35 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
well the ole saying i live your life to the fullist and when the time comes cash your body in totaly used up and wasted and as we say on a harley live to ride and ride to live .... 
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| August 8, 2011, 00:56 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
I don't think there is any real harm in a few hotdogs around the campfire. Our ancestors got along pretty well with cooking their unrefrigerated mammoth meat on an open fire.
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| August 9, 2011, 14:54 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
That was before we "new and improved" them with chemicals, nitrates, sulfates, growth hormones, flavor enhancers......Don't you love progress. Glad to see they are watching out for us and making our life better.FDA is doing such a bang up job.I wish they would stop helping and leave our food alone and maybe we can go back to eating real meat with our meat.
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| August 9, 2011, 16:31 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
get the hardwood burning, ill get the spit ready load it up with a few free range chikens, a peice of beef and a small hog and throw it on the coals and start basting lol
ah sweet baby rays....
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| August 9, 2011, 22:00 |
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Grandelf
64 / male
Northern, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
Some of the best times in my life were sitting around a fire..sometimes on a Sunday night, maybe on the weekend after the gig...we had a place way back in the woods, we'd build a fire and a handful of people would show up...usually three or four guitars...playing songs that we knew and those we didn't know and it didn't matter. No pressure of an audience, just play...anything. There was no "I can't sing"....if one felt like singing along, go for it! Play your nose, it was about fun..and that's exactly what we had. I learned as many cool songs, finger picking styles and chords in that arena as I did in the clubs...the laughs were huge. Again, such fond memories...I would love to relive those days.
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| August 14, 2011, 06:11 |
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catlady
60 / female
rostraver/belle vernon, Pennsylvania, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
Way too long since I've been camping.
Add to you list of camping places Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. I learned how to make a shelter from what I could find in the woods, got to teach kids the same. Fun times .
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| August 14, 2011, 06:34 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
pine bough work good , we were up in Minnesota in a native village, it was pouring down rain all the around the big lake, they also have the fur trappers fort there too, were the gun flint trail started around the pigeon river falls ,don't go in the water leaches....but they had the native gardens and birch bark huts i would call them they were quite dry and nice in side, all ya needed was a small fire to keep the dampness off, and some nice furs to kick back on, smoke your pipe and and chew some venison... it was a 14 mile hike to the upper falls and the other fort with your supplies and furs , put your canoe in and off to the boundary waters ....sometimes i think i was born 250 years too late
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| August 18, 2011, 01:55 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
I think I will stick to the Marriott. It sounds a bit easier. They even have rooms with amazing views and if I want food the only hunting I have to do is for my glasses so I can see what button to push for room service.
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| August 18, 2011, 02:19 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
aha come on , don't ya want to cook me a beaver tail? and some cattail tubers or maybe some prairie stew, chicken snake and Prairie dog,tators and carrots and a hearty gravy..
i think ill hang out with a couple of ice cream sandwiches
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| August 19, 2011, 01:46 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (ashkats @ August 19, 2011, 01:46)aha come on , don't ya want to cook me a beaver tail? and some cattail tubers or maybe some prairie stew, chicken snake and Prairie dog,tators and carrots and a hearty gravy..
i think ill hang out with a couple of ice cream sandwiches
OMG Is that stuff real? LMAO I know the ice cream sandwiches are but not so sure about the other stuff.If they are real the answer ids a definite NO THANK YOU, I THINK I WILL PASS (More like pass out if I had to see that stuff.)
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| August 19, 2011, 03:51 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
oh ya its is , i just love stuffed beavertail... and chicken snake is rattle snake meat mighty tasty, read not to long ago some hiker in southeast mn got bit by a timber rattler, as a lot of coments about callimg the dnr to remove them , folks wanted them dead period, and use to be a bounty on snakes , the dnr says dont shooten their protected.. alot of folks say screw that.. the first guy wakes it up and the next one pisses it off and the 3rd gets bit...
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| August 19, 2011, 20:23 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
I've come across rattlers while hiking, geez...they give you plenty of warning.
Never tried beaver tail, I've tasted squirrel, rabbit stew, frog legs and turtle meat....just for curiosity.
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| August 21, 2011, 12:25 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (Chazzy @ August 21, 2011, 12:25)I've come across rattlers while hiking, geez...they give you plenty of warning.
Never tried beaver tail, I've tasted squirrel, rabbit stew, frog legs and turtle meat....just for curiosity.
No gator? My friends own a gator farm. You can buy gator meat or all types of nice products made from gator hide.
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| August 21, 2011, 16:20 |
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thechunkyone
35 / male
elizabeth, New Jersey, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
i never been camoing in my life. i'd like to try to rough it a bit though. i'd like a private area though so i can walk around freely if u know wut i mean lol
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| August 21, 2011, 18:01 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
I joke about camping and although there are some types I would never do. Like camping with my sleeping bad hanging from the side of a mountain or other extreme camping.The truth is I have three kids and all have been in scouting and big on camping. Although I do try to camp with as many comforts as I can bring I do like to go camping. There are just some things and places you can enjoy camping that you can't get from staying at a hotel.In many cases it can be the most restful sleep you will ever get.
We go to a place for SCUBA divers that you camp out on the property. It's so pretty and nice that we can hang out with all our friends that are there to dive as well and enjoy stories and campfires as well as food and just general fun like some of the people that bring guitars and sing at the camp fires.
If there is anyone that has never been camping you can go as rough or as comfortable as you choose and I really do think you should try it at lease once or you are missing out.
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| August 21, 2011, 19:22 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
i love to watch all them survival shows on discovery and other chsns, with them living off the land , sleeping in trees , eating tree bark, snakes and turtle claws , bugs ,grubs and so one , I'm just not that hungry yet...lol
i have had venison, Buffalo, rabbit, duck, goose,gator ants lion ostrage and a few others . too many people up here with Lupus and duck is dry and goose is greasy.
then we got them movies like Jeremiah Johnson , dances with wolves and Jeremiah didn't like his new wife's cooking and tells the kid to go check the traps and bring back some proper food ,,, were back to eating beaver again in stead of elk, and with dances they were chasing Buffalo
i myself will stick with a rack of baby back ribs off the grill and icecream sandwiches
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| August 22, 2011, 00:48 |
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Re: sit around the campfire
Ok, I tried camping a few times just to see what the big deal was about. And Im not gonna lie, I was dragged in, kicking and screaming. And it was in cabins with toilets and showers. Nope. Aint for me. Call me a priss, a pussy, a city boy, I dont give a rats ass. Nobody's draggin my white ass into any of those places again. I'll expound on what Newbs said before. To me, roughing it is going to a Motel 6 that doesnt have a microwave, a hairdryer or in room coffee maker
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| August 22, 2011, 01:31 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
Well, I've been camping a couple of times. The first time was nice at Peace River. We were just kids. We had a large tent with bunk cots. They had a large swimming hole with a swing. Lots of kids of all ages. I was only 7, and I got slammed into by a kid on the swing.
I also remember my mom, me and my two brothers canoeing. If I was 7 they were 10, and 5. Is that really safe? One adult and 3 kids?
My ex-husband's family were big on boating, fishing, and camping. Lake George is a nice spot, just watch out for snakes dropping into the boat.
There was the one time it was pretty cold, around 32'. The ground was cold and hard. Didn't sleep well anyway. All night I heard the sounds of raccoons screeching and fighting. Seems even though they wedged the cooler under the picnic table, the raccoons got into it eating all the eggs, bacon, etc. They had another cooler in one of the tents. I think I would have been a little nervous about that.
I know I had a good friend who was explaining to me how FUN camping is. I retold my story. He kinda agreed, it didn't sound like much fun. And, the was a building with bathrooms and showers. A plus! My ex found his way in there so we could have sex .
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| August 22, 2011, 03:25 |
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newbie1011
62 / female
The Shore, New Jersey, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
My mother was talked into camping at Lake George when she was a teenager or a bit older, maybe early twenties.She was and is petrified of snakes so they convinced her that if she tied a rope around the tent at ground level the snakes wont go over it so she will not have to worry about it. (She got much smarter as she got older.lol) They also told her that she had to go to the campsite by canoe and that she didn't need to worry because canoes "can't" sink. It started pouring on the way. In those days they used down blankets and other very heavy and absorbent things when camping.Well it turns out if you have enough down and wool get wet canoes CAN and DO sink! I don't think she has gone camping since.lol
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| August 22, 2011, 06:55 |
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Re: Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (Iwant2kssuallovr @ August 21, 2011, 16:20) QUOTE (Chazzy @ August 21, 2011, 12:25)I've come across rattlers while hiking, geez...they give you plenty of warning.
Never tried beaver tail, I've tasted squirrel, rabbit stew, frog legs and turtle meat....just for curiosity.
No gator? My friends own a gator farm. You can buy gator meat or all types of nice products made from gator hide.
I've heard gator meat is really tasty, I'd try it.
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| August 22, 2011, 14:43 |
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (ashkats @ August 22, 2011, 00:48)i love to watch all them survival shows on discovery and other chsns,
Dual Survival is pretty cool, with the military guy and the hippie guy, and Man,Woman,Wild is pretty good too.
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| August 22, 2011, 14:49 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
chazzy the gator i tried i wasn't impressed,it was nastier.
and free that's not camping if your at motel 6 , that's not even a good motel, damn noisy but i do like a pool.
camping is sleeping in some kind of make shift shelter or tent, on the ground with the dirt ashes and bugs, getting soaked in a storm, we even had one night up in munising were a tree fell over that was close enough to feel the ground bounce. and ya we been raided by the coons too , steal my chips ahoys will they and a loaf of bread too.
up here , some places are clearly posted to hang your food from a tree or you will get a fine , becouse yoggie bear will come and rip your windows out just to steal yor picnick basket. i never had that problem but they did take my fishing bait for me one night, my minnows and leaches and crawlers....and as that wasnt enough for them they had to empty 3 dumpters too all over the parking lot
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| August 22, 2011, 21:43 |
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funlovingpair
59 / couple
Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: sit around the campfire
I've had yogi show a time or two while camping with the boy scouts. Not good when going to the can and come around the corner only to be face to face with yogi and boo boo to. Needless to say, didn't need to go the bathroom any more. Mostly just rocky the racoon made his presents known, and his friends the ants. 
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| August 22, 2011, 22:34 |
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Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (freensleazy @ August 22, 2011, 01:31)Ok, I tried camping a few times just to see what the big deal was about. And Im not gonna lie, I was dragged in, kicking and screaming. And it was in cabins with toilets and showers. Nope. Aint for me. Call me a priss, a pussy, a city boy, I dont give a rats ass. Nobody's draggin my white ass into any of those places again. I'll expound on what Newbs said before. To me, roughing it is going to a Motel 6 that doesnt have a microwave, a hairdryer or in room coffee maker
OOOOooooo I see....you're a "pouter"
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| August 23, 2011, 21:36 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
62 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Re: Re: sit around the campfire
QUOTE (Chazzy @ August 23, 2011, 21:36) QUOTE (freensleazy @ August 22, 2011, 01:31) I'll expound on what Newbs said before. To me, roughing it is going to a Motel 6 that doesnt have a microwave, a hairdryer or in room coffee maker
OOOOooooo I see....you're a "pouter"
A hairdryer???? I must be the only one who doesn't ever use a hairdryer! "priss pouter" .... funny
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| August 23, 2011, 22:13 |
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