Back to nature ! ...

   Oh how I sometimes wish I could take a couple of my
'City Born' friends for a weekend out in nature.  Let them
experience the joy of seeing wildlife in it's natural habitat..
enjoy the flavor of 'cowboy coffee' brewed over a campfire
savor the taste of fresh caught fish and hot crispy bannock
cooked to perfection while watching a beautiful sunset and
feeling the gentle summer breeze blowing up the hollow.
Then to wake up to the sound of wild turkey gobbling as
they come off of the roost and watching baby bunnies frolic
in the clover playing like little kids at recess.
   In fact, I wouldn't mind experiencing that myself !  After
this weekend I may just rent a studio apartment in Manhattan.
   I should have known the weekend wasn't going to be
spectacular when I woke up Thursday with one of those
'something just doesn't feel right ' kind of feelings.  I got
through the day so Friday I head for the great outdoors.
Somehow mother nature got the memo an almost immediately
started her waterworks.  Oh well .. good time for some inside
work  But no evening campfire with friends.. bummer !  Fast
forward to Saturday .. cloudbursts.. followed by a half hour of
unbearable humidity, then followed by bigger cloudbursts.
Then repeat .  We got close to a  roaring campfire once but
showers reduced it to smelly, smoky smoldering mass of ashes.
That's alright I have to go home anyway,  Come home late,
hook up boat, charge batteries, shower and hit the sack.  Did you
really think I was going to get a good night's sleep ?  Think
back to Thursday morning... yep  up four times for various
reasons.  Finally give up and get up at four thirty and off to
the lake.  Slight drizzle but it looks like a promising day.
However the only thing I would be promised would
be six and a half hours of relentless pouring rain.  Oh well ,
fish are wet anyway.. they won't care !  Obviously fish don't
like going out to eat in the rain either.  So fishing stinks, soaked
to the bone, and the bilge pump can't keep up with the rain water.
Of course at three o'clock the sun comes out and everything is
just beautiful for the weigh in and the trip home.  (high point)
Back boat in carport, wipe it down, plug the charger in and grab
a quick shower.  Just sit down and I get a text from a buddy at camp...
Everything's high and dry.  going to be a beautiful evening, come
on out.!!  Meet you at pond three !!  Back in the truck and off I go. 
It's a short drive  but somehow I managed to get there the same
time as the rain.  At least I was a little smarter,. put out my awning
and grabbed a chair and a cold beverage and sat and watched as the
storm approached.  Several moments later I see my buddy's truck
coming through the field.  Out jumps four drowned rats.
(enter here profanity laced conversation about High and dry text)
Once again no campfire so everyone decides to give up and go home.
Almost everyone !  I haven't had quite enough yet. Besides the rain
should have done wonders for the Morel mushrooms.  Tomorrow
will be a good 'room' day.  Morning comes early.  Not because I'm
well rested but because a flock of wild turkey hens had wondered
into the campsite and decided that my truck was just the cover they
needed at the butt crack of dawn, and the poor Tom somehow got
separated and ended up behind my camper in a small strip of woods
just outside my open bedroom window and decided to gobble his
fool head off repeatedly while the hens just cackled and egged him
on.  Remember  I love wildlife !!!  (with mashed potatoes and gravy)
So with my over-perked extra strong coffee and my way too runny for
my liking oatmeal, I set out to face the day.  I found no mushrooms,
got soaked about three different times.  Topped off my afternoon with
some quite nasty red beans and rice side dish I had in stock.. buttoned
up the camper and headed home to the sounds of pounding raindrops
the swishing of wipers.   I guess it could have been a worse weekend.
I'm not sure how.. but it could have been.   OH  I KNOW !  Let's let
him get about half way home and remember that he left his wallet, extra
keys and meds in the camper !  Yea.. that's the ticket !