‘Campfire Pizza Party’

One of our last days at Three Lakes Linda organized a Pizza party. We invited everyone in camp to come to the campfire to make their own pizza in a pie iron. Some folks had already made plans to dine together days earlier, so they didn’t attend but we still had 16 brave individuals.

John, our Canadian friend, got the fire goin’ around 4 PM so we would have coals to cook on. We set up tables for all the fixin’s fer’ the pies.

I didn’t get any pictures durin’ the setup cause I never even thought of the camera. So when it finally dawned on me, as folks were makin’ their pie irons ready for the fire, I ran for the trailer and grabbed the camera. There was pizza sauce, cheeses of several varieties, mushrooms, onions, sausage of several types, ham, pepperoni, and lots of other ingredients that I can’t even remember along with lots of different kinds o’ bread to wrap it all in.

The fire was a beehive of activities as folks prepared and cooked their pies.

Some of the folks had never made or eaten a pizza, or anything else, made with a pie iron. The more experienced assisted those would had never used a pie iron. There were some burned pies in the beginning, myself included cause I was takin’ pictures , but everyone got the hang of it shortly.

In all everyone had all they could eat and before we cleaned up, we made fruit pies for dessert. We had cherry, apple & peach pies for anyone who so desired.

Everyone pitched in and we had everything cleaned up in no time. Then we settled in to sit around the campfire for the remainder of the evening.

We spent a little more than three weeks camping with no hookups and had only one problem, our inverter started goin’ off on ‘overload alarm’. After hookin’ up the generator I found the same problem with it. So I figured the problem was in the house wiring. I went through and made sure all my connections were tight and then the problem mysteriously vanished and hasn’t returned. I didn’t find any connection that I would consider loose, but I guess I fixed it anyway.

Well that was the ‘Campfire Pizza Party’. As always we hope to see ya’ down the road as we’re;

Dancin’ on the Wind.

Just Another Day at Camp

Well we pass the time here at camp as we all see fit. Some perusin’ the pages of a good book

Some just conversatin’, preparin’ fer’ the evening tellin’ o’ lies around the campfire.

Some tinkerin’ & tweakin’ their toys tryin’ to make their trailer more resemble a porcupine here in the woods. Guess they want to blend with nature better.

But it’s not all fun & relaxifyin’. Some days there’s work to be done. Fred & his lovely wife Pat seem to be the self appointed wood gatherers for the community campfire. We can‘t cut any standin’ trees, dead or not, but we can gather anything that is already down on the ground. Not always an easy task in the thick palmetto scrub. Today they went out into the woods and arrived back a while later with a tree they had located. Soon after they unloaded it they were hard at work cuttin’, stackin’ & splitin’.

The sounds brought myself as well as several other folks to pitch-in. I really went to take some pictures and I told the worker-bees I was with the Camp Newspaper. They seemed to have more help than needed at the time and I didn’t want to crowd things. So I returned home to do some finger tappin’ on these keys.

As fer’ our personal camp things weren’t so busy, a mite slower pace ya’ might say. Linda was in her mornin’ getup, or ensemble as Donna of the Cave Dwellings would call it. I think ya’ have a protégé’ in trainin’ Donna.

Well I better get out to the wood pile to spell some o’ the other worker bees fer’ a while.

Oh, on another note, for those interested, our solar system seems to be doin’ just fine as we’re charged back to 100% most every day. Sure is nice to live in the woods with the comforts of home.

As always, hope to see ya’ down the road as we’re;

Dancin’ on the Wind.