Shopping for camping stuff...
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la_rainette...should be done before end of July, when everything that's left is for sale, but there isn't much left anyway.
We set up the (enormous) tent in the backyard this morning: it ate up a third of the backyard, which is decently sized to begin with. It took all our wits to get the damn thing together (I persist in saying the instructions made more sense when read upside-down).
The shopping was, to say the least, ominous. I wish the people who organize the stuff in the store would make up their minds and decide whether they want to focus on the finicky camper who likes to be clean shaven, or the adventurous Indiana Jones wannabe for whom only interior camping in Algonquin Park - complete with bears - will do. As things are, they just put everything that had to do with camping together, organized alphabetically, thus placing the little mirror next to the machete, giving me horrible visions of what would happen if a camper tried to shave with a machete. Urgh.
We didn't buy a machete. I didn't think it would do much against the mosquitos.
Ceasing transmission now. Will talk to you in a week. If am not back by then, send rescue mission with machete. Please?
We set up the (enormous) tent in the backyard this morning: it ate up a third of the backyard, which is decently sized to begin with. It took all our wits to get the damn thing together (I persist in saying the instructions made more sense when read upside-down).
The shopping was, to say the least, ominous. I wish the people who organize the stuff in the store would make up their minds and decide whether they want to focus on the finicky camper who likes to be clean shaven, or the adventurous Indiana Jones wannabe for whom only interior camping in Algonquin Park - complete with bears - will do. As things are, they just put everything that had to do with camping together, organized alphabetically, thus placing the little mirror next to the machete, giving me horrible visions of what would happen if a camper tried to shave with a machete. Urgh.
We didn't buy a machete. I didn't think it would do much against the mosquitos.
Ceasing transmission now. Will talk to you in a week. If am not back by then, send rescue mission with machete. Please?
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Razor burn
Date: 2004-07-25 03:46 am (UTC)I don't think it would be so horrible. I've seen hardened adventurers/soldiers/cowboys dry shave with hunting knives and stuff... in the movies.
Perhaps the most famous instance was the disposable razor dry-shave enacted by Sergeant 'Mac' Eliot (Bill Duke) in Predator while the team were waiting in ambush for the alien beast. However, due to his dark skin I could not establish whether he managed to avoid razor burn.
Mind you, Mac did cut himself in that scene -- but only because it's a little bit hard to concentrate on shaving in the jungle when you have a fear that you may be about to be disembowelled by an invisible creature from another planet. Still, I reckon I'd risk shaving with a machete just to avoid the itchiness of my five day old stubble. I'd be a much more affable adventurer that way... admittedly less rugged... but also less bitchy.
Re: Razor burn
Date: 2004-08-02 02:23 pm (UTC)The point with THAT machete (the one I saw in the shop, I mean), is that you need to have ridiculously long arms to shave with it. Unless you're an ape, the only way you could manage that is by holding it with your toes. Dangerous, very dangerous. Even without the invisible creature trying to disembowel you.
And now, thanks to you, I also understand why Husband (the machete camper at heart), would camp with only a swiss army knife and a sleeping bag, but wouldn't forget his electric razor. Not that he is that much more easy to deal with when clean-shaven but v. wet from torrential rain.
random friend-age
Date: 2004-07-26 09:14 am (UTC)Hope you're having fun, camping with little ones. Sounds like...and experience. I hope it's alright that I've friended you? I have a little brother and sister who are probably a bit younger than your kids, but still entertaining. How old are Tadpole and Froglet, if you don't mind me asking? I read your account of Brother Bear, it reminded me of our recent viewing of Spirit, the horseymovie. Never a dull moment...
Re: random friend-age
Date: 2004-08-02 02:18 pm (UTC)Tadpole and Froglet are 3 and 5, respectively. and, you're right, never a dull moment, especially when watching a movie (by the time you're done explaining it to them, you're not quite sure you understand it anymore :D ).
An experience is the right term. Knowing I would relate it here and finally get to laugh about it is what kept me sane through, well, the worst of it.
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Date: 2004-07-28 06:14 pm (UTC)c4mp3r5!
Seriously, enjoy the trip.
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Date: 2004-08-02 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-02 01:56 pm (UTC)Sending rescue mission with machete, and some antihistamine.
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Date: 2004-08-02 02:14 pm (UTC)Did you see? Apparently there is a movie called "Alies vs. predator" coming out soon. They're so going to need your machete. :D
*goes back to equipment cleaning/reorganizing the house* My GOD. Packing was bad enough. How come no one warned me about unpacking?
Machete
Date: 2004-08-02 02:25 pm (UTC)Happy non-US holiday.
Out of interest... over the weekend I posted two fairly provocative entries locked to a specific gorup of my flist... about my move to Iowa... and not a soul has commented. Are they even viewable? Feel free to get to me tomorrow on this question... and spend today laughing at the sword-shaving imagery.