When I was growing up, my brothers and sisters and I would play in the woods by the hour. We would set up elaborate “houses” and visit each other. This past weekend I found myself doing the same thing with my own family. We had been planning for awhile to go camping at Priest Lake for Memorial Day weekend. Friday…

We don’t heat with wood at home, but we do love a good fire when we’re camping. So Lyle keeps an eye on Craig’s List for bargains on firewood. Last weekend he found a deal on “mill ends.”  We loaded up the back of the pickup with short pieces of 2x4s. Then we packed it into paper boxes. It packed…

  We’re die-hard campers. Not extreme campers, mind you, but we usually go later in the season than most people. The campgrounds are quieter this time of year, naturally, but we also enjoy the fall colors, the cool crisp air and the warmth of the campfire. This past weekend we had sunny skies and brisk temperatures. Lyle and I went…

Turns out, as I’ve recently discovered, if you keep a man in town over the weekend, he’s gonna go in to work, at least a little while. So if the weather forecast is promising and the man says, “Wanna go camping?” I say, “Let’s go!” This past weekend we stayed at a Forest Service campground along the beautiful St. Joe…

We enjoyed spending the holiday weekend as a family at one of our favorite Forest Service campgrounds “up the river.” It was relaxing to get away for a few days and just sit and watch the squirrels and chipmunks who put on quite a show for us! We also had fun hiking, biking, reading, talking, driving the back roads, and…

We went camping this past weekend in central Washington, near Grand Coulee Dam. Steamboat Rock campground is open year round and we thought it might be a little warmer over there for perhaps the last camp-out of the season. It was. But it was also gray and drizzly……however, as I’ve mentioned before, we don’t mind the rain. The scenery was…

This past weekend we had another informal family field trip to the Grand Coulee Dam in central Washington. We were camping in the area, so took the opportunity to visit the dam while we were over there. It doesn’t tie in with anything we’re learning about currently… but it was built in the 1930s as a Public Works Administration project,…

It rained on the second day of our Labor Day Weekend camping trip. Not just a quick shower… but off-and-on all day. What do you do when it rains on a camping trip? Lyle enjoyed standing under the awning watching the rain come down.We had planned to go Geocaching that day, but didn’t relish the idea of tramping through dripping…