...soupy weather!

 ...which differs from Soup Weather, which is when it's dark and chilly outside.  Soupy weather is muggy and humid.  It's not even ultra hot, just sweating weather.  Last night, I will admit, was rough sleeping.  A fan in the window didn't do much.  I tossed and turned and had lots of good thinking time.  I considered maybe putting the AC in the window...

I am not a fan of air conditioning, in general.  It's unnatural to be so cold in the summer, and coming in from the heat to the cold, sometimes it does feel great, but it makes you not want to go outside at all.  I like open windows and breezes coming in.  We don't have central AC here in the house.  We do put a window unit in our bedroom some years, and the other upstairs bedrooms have that option too.  There have been years we've put window units in the kitchen and living room windows.  

But overall, where we live, there are only, in my humble opinion, like ten days where the heat and humidity are almost unbearable.  And, we have a pool.  

My thoughts, when the kids were younger, it was nice it was just as warm in the house as outside, it helped them want to go outside.  When I was a kid, most of us didn't have AC, and we all played outside all summer long.  

Now if I lived in Phoenix, it would be a totally different story.  They're in the hundreds all week, barely cooling down at night.  It's actually quite deadly to live in that climate without AC, and it's happening...last year over 600 died in the summer, in JUST the Phoenix area, from heat...many were homeless...(Whenever I visit there, I wonder why the heck did they build all this in the DESERT?!)

We have decided to go ahead and go camping, tomorrow instead of today.  Charlotte Claire can't miss school, and Paul can't miss work, but we will leave around noon tomorrow.  So I have PLENTY of time to pack!  

The camper is very lightweight, and cannot hold more than 400 pounds of cargo for towing, including contents of refrigerator.  Now, we don't have a campsite with electricity or water hook up, so ultimately we would fill the fresh tank, but we don't want to tow that weight.  We do have a battery that's charged, and a generator to recharge it, just to turn on the lights a bit, and the refrigerator is on now, plugged in to our home's electric, but we'll switch it to propane for the weekend.  It's nice to have a refrigerator, not just coolers.  We can also make our coffee right there in the camper, a three burner stove to heat the kettle.  Morning coffee in the camper, ahhh.  Will my expectations be met?  

The camper is very small.  We're towing it with a Nissan Frontier, so it has to be small.  The dogs are going with, they will take up every single bit of floor space, and more.  Charlotte Claire and Camille are coming too, then Paul and I.  Others will be up to visit during the day, but just the four, rather SIX of us for sleeping.  I don't know how it will all work with storage yet, but it's very exciting to me to get it all figured out.  

The weekend weather doesn't look as menacing as it did a few days ago.  Right now, it should rain the first half of Friday, we'll get there right as it clears up, hopefully.  It'll be cool, in the sixties, but still pleasant, I hope.  Our site is right there across from the beach, so sunsets are gorgeous, mornings are gorgeous, it's just nice.   Saturday it's supposed to rain in the morning, then clear up for the rest of the day, still chilly though...but hey, campfires are nice!  

This post has been written in fits and starts, as I have to go out to the pool frequently to empty the filter basket...those pesky cottonwood trees, snowing down their fluff, which lands in the pool, which clogs up the basket...I also brought a load of things to the camper...some mugs, a frying pan, marshmallows....I pack in fits and starts too.  I wish I had a normal brain that did things more logically.  

I got up to let the cat out, which led to loading up to take things to the camper, then I raked up after the dogs a bit, then wandered back in, down to the pool, and oh, those pans I left soaking last night!  A load of laundry, now here I am, back in the comfy chair.  Of course I don't want to sit here all day anyway, or do I?

Camille will be taking her test on this computer, so I decided to get back to this and finish it up.  But first, here are some random photos...we went strawberry picking yesterday!  I told the kids, eat them up before they go bad, I don't want any to go to waste, because I had to lean over for each one, and ugh.  :). I thought I was smart, washing them all up and putting them in glass jars...but nope, you're not supposed to wash them first, oops.  My gravestone, as my dear son Aaron once mentioned, should read She Tried.

Rhys

Jamie

Look at Rhys all the way up there...we had the place to ourselves...

Guess which basket Rhys picked?

Achilles...more went in his tummy than in his basket!

Oscar and Sonja...:)

Camille and I went to the thrift store yesterday morning.  

Yes, we bought this and brought it home....it has project! written all over it.  It's veneered wood except for the top, I think, so maybe we'll sand and refinish the top wood and paint the bottom...Camille has been wanting one of these for a while...and it was marked down to $29.99.  

Ah well....the rain will be moving in soon, hope it cools the air a little so I can vacuum...have a really good day!