Camping: The Art Of Staying Wet Indoors

 

Day Two (Night): Torrential rain, non-stop.

Day Three (Morning): Sun and strong winds.

Day Three (noon-six p.m.): Torrential rain, non-stop.  No stopping. Constant, pounding, ongoing, perpetual, unchanging, relentless, monotonous, uninterrupted rain for six solid hours.

The woman camping alone next door in – I kid you not – a child’s pop-up tent, complete with the necessaries: beer fridge and TV, packed up and went home because she was flooded out.  Our gazebo died and the boys had to disassemble it.

We had a back-up plan for entertainment: lunch, cards and Rhyl Sun Centre. RSC is an indoor pool with slides and waves and things.  In any other country, an indoor pool with slides and waves and things on the beach front would seem daft, but we are talking about Wales.  Wet, wet, wet Wales, where everyone wears cardigans over their bathing suits in August.

The Hub dropped the kids off then came back and dropped off.  

I dogsat and read my Kindle.  I started three books and couldn’t get in to any of them.  Hundreds of books on my Kindle and I couldn’t find something new to enjoy.  It was like having literary cable.

I thought for a moment: I was alone in the wilderness (the Hub was en route); there was little food left; I didn’t know or trust anyone around me.

Time to re-read The Hunger Games.

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Joke 516

 

 

Picture of one of the ceiling fans in my collection; this is a “Delta” made by the Casablanca Fan Co.; model 10666, manufactured 6/5/1982. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

From Will and Guy.

 

What A Mother Of Small Boys In Texas Knows

 

• A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house, 4 inches deep.
• If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
• A 3-year old boy’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.
• If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound [3 stone] boy wearing batman underwear and a superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 foot room.
• You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
• The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
• When you hear the toilet flush and the words “uh oh”, it’s already too late.
• Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
• A six-year old boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old man says they can only do it in the movies.
• Most Lego pieces will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old boy.
• Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.
• Super glue is forever.
• No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can’t walk on water.
• Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
• VCRs do not eject “PB & J” sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
• Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
• Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
• You probably DO NOT want to know what that odour is.
• Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.
• The fire department in Austin, Texas has a 5-minute response time.
• The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.
• It will, however, make cats dizzy.
• Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
• 80% of men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid.
• Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without permission.