Spontaneous Camping!

A friend of mine enrolled herself in the Pickard Mountain Eco Institutes Cob building workshop http://www.pickardsmountain.org/. She needed help watching the kids so with only a day notice Courtney and I went on a camping adventure. (Chris was busy with a residency at school and work wanting him to be in two places at once.) There were little people to play with, chickens, pigs and goats to look at, and even a dip in the fancy pool(at the founders house which was way better than our accommodations.)

The fancy pool was the highlight for Courtney and the first thing she asked for the next morning when she woke up. That brown dog followed us with a stick always wanting to play fetch even in the pool.

After two days of roughing it, who wants to wear clothes. But look MaMere I am protected from the sun.

Fun in a sandbox, anyone? William, 3, and Ellias, 19 months, join Courtney for a roll.

The potty that I kept referring to as the tree house potty, to make it seem more appealing. But Courtney would have nothing to do with it. We had to drive her to the gas station for the major stuff and put her portible potty seat on a bucket for minor stuff.

The kids hanging out, outside the "kitchen." A two burner propane stove on a piece of graniteon barrels and a laundry sink in a doorless garage sized building.

Here is the eight man tent that we slept in.