SPUT & Drought Reduction For Hire

[sgridder]

Steve, thank you for sharing your adventure.  It was not fun for you guys at the time, but you will rember this trip forever!  :p

Not quite as dramatic, but the day after we got our pup, we had it open in the back yard.  We were heading out to 5PM Mass on Saturday, and decided to leave it up.  Mistake!  We got home and it was soaked due to a T-storm that popped up out of nowhere.  We learned to take it down in the rain mighty fast with the lightning crashing all around.  

Keep the faith and keep sharing your adventures!

Sorry to see I am not the only alumi the Thunderstorm School of PUP Take Down.  I got my Masters in Lightning.

Steve

[sgridder]

I know whatcha mean. We've had a drought and record setting temps. I bought a can of paint today to paint our mailbox post (HOA rules). Guess what. Been raining all day.

Larry

Sounds like you would be a great a partner in my Drought reduction business.  We got Florida and now Tennessee covered. Heck, Lets just call it the Southeast.
Pretty soon we will control the World (Insert Evil laugh).

Steve

[sgridder]

I thought you were going to describe an unusual camping trip.     That sounds par for the course for our family.  But, which one of the kids got bit/stung/or scraped something?  You must have left that out. :confused:

Seriously, sounds like y'all recovered well and still had a good time.  That is the way to do it!

Actually you just reminded me that on the Sunday naptime I woke up wet. No, not from the rain, but from pee.  It took me a full 10-30 seconds of self-doubt and worry(how do you explain to your wife that you just wet the bed. Do I need to see a Doctor?  I swear the last time I did it was in college. Did I just type that?) to realize that I was not the source. We forgot to put a pull-up diaper on my DD.  'Luckily' my six pocket cargo shorts soaked up most of the pee.  I new those extra pocket would come in handy.

Steve

[sgridder]

I'm grateful to hear you all came out of the storms safely - in retrospect, it makes the story very funny!

And in the end, one of the best lessons you learned about camping is that the 'worst' trips, SPUTS, and mistakes make for some of the best shared family memories and skills learned.

I'm so sorry I don't live near you - I'd be glad to go camping with you and your family just to break your rainy spell.   It (almost never) rains when I camp, and when it does, it's usually at night (I love the sound of rain on the canvas) or at least, not long.

It reminds me of our last camping trip SPUT - We were EXPECTING the camper door to fly open - the latch broke and we duct-taped it shut.  But no, our problem was worse than that  - a flat tire.

You would think it would have been on the 35 yr old camper with the tires of uncertain age - but no - it was on the Van with fairly new tires! & it was a SPUT because i had seen that the tire was low for about a week before we left - but not that bad, and simply filled it before we left. (REALLY Stupid, because I work at the store where I bought the tires, have road hazard coverage on them, and can get them checked & filled any day while I work) I guess filling them made the leak worse - because  1  1/2 hrs  toward the campground, with a 1/2 hr to go and 9 PM at night - the tire blew (actually, it shredded)- on a Wisconsin highway with traffic going by @ 70+ MPH.  

Watching my Significant Other and Son crawl around a vehicle & between the van and camper to change a tire at night on a dark highway is NOT my idea of fun!

Luckily the state troopers came out and set their emergency lights for us, so we could change it in relative safety & get off the highway.

Hope you have Sunny camputs and no Road problems in the future!

Laura

Anybody can have great trip in their PUP.  It takes a special kind of stupid to have a trip like me.  I have always thought of myself as a very capable person.  The PUP has reduced me to a slack-jawed idiot.  I have become, "That Guy". You know, the one that drives slow in the left lane(because I am too scared to change lanes in heavy traffic) or the one that drives five miles under the speed limit on a single lane road with 34 cars stacked up behind with no way to pass.  If they are able to pass they usually give me the middle fingered salute to say nice PUP (at least that is what I tell myself and kids).

I could truly careless about being THAT GUY as long as my family is together having fun and creating traditions / memories.

We should meet up. It would be Legendary the combined forces of our SPUTabilies.  I envision a sort of SPUT Olympics, we could charge admission.

Thanks for the kind thoughts,

Steve

[waygard33]

Steve....THIS IS GOD speaking...

Sorry about your troubles. Mrs. God went on an all girls vacation and left me home alone with all the God Kids. During one particularly troubled time including an overflowing bath tub, burnt pizza, and a telemarketer phone call, my teenage son hopped on to the God computer (Dell XPS 1100) and proceeded to screw with peoples lives, including yours.

Sorry about that...although that was pretty funny when you woke up thinking you pee'd your pants. All of us up here got a good laugh out of that one.

Anyway, I owe you one. I'll see if I can send a little more sunshine your way on your next trip. Maybe I'll have the wife give you that unexpected kiss along the way. Do you want more kids?

Well, I gotta go. That boy of mine also programmed the Cubs to win the world series and I still have to figure out how to undo that. That aint' happening if I can help it!

Good luck...I mean God Bless.
THE MAN