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Ebenezer
Sep. 6, 2006
Camping checklist works for me!
This entry is a blatant attempt to get blog traffic from Rocks In My Dryer's Works for Me Wednesday posting, as I'm sure this is a totally unoriginal idea, but as I'm doing this RIGHT NOW I thought I'd pass along the trick that has made annual camping trips so much easier: a checklist that stays on the computer all year long.
For some reason we persisted for many years in rewriting our list before each trip, invariably forgetting something or remembering it once the VW was already carefully packed to popping. So now we have one list that only needs minor modifications and updates each year (for instance, I just took off "Pack&Play" and "Bibs"). We even have the standard food items listed, such as ketchup and dog buns. Works for me!
Bonus works-for-me: You know those campfire sandwich makers for doing grilled cheese and stuff? We use ours for pizza pockets and, best of all, for fruit pies. Butter your bread on the outside, put pie filling and a little extra sugar on the inside, smash, cook over coals, and voila! Don't burn your tongues!
By the way, we're headed to a homeschool camping gathering on Lake Michigan. Interesting tidbit: upscale lakshore property owners and neighbors of the conference grounds -- which has been offering camping forever and I think predates the neighbors -- are miffed about campfire smoke sullying their air. Do you think I should feel sorry for them?
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