Daily Archives: July 31, 2004

Papoose Pond Day 8 — Heading Home

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6:39 AM: Well that's it. Downloaded the photos off the camera onto the laptop and have to help with the last of the packing. This was a nice trip… I'll miss this place. We will probably return here again sometime…

On the way home I started reading “Forty Signs of Rain” by Kim Stanley Robinson.  An interesting work of fiction about the very real problem of global warming.  I haven't yet figured out whether or not I like this book… it's very… different.

When we reached the Massachusetts border Pat was bushed so I took over driving.  By about 2 PM we were home with a few D'Angelos subs to munch on.  It's freaking HOT here, and I thought it was hot up in Maine… sheesh!

Our pets are in kennels and we can't get them until Monday, so for today and tomorrow, we have the house to ourselves.

After all the crap was hauled out of the car we were bushed and Pat passed out on the couch.  Later she went up to Lynnea's room to watch a movie and last time I checked they were both snoozing away.  It has been an exhausting but fun excursion.

I'm back.  The Unbecoming Hiatus is over.

Papoose Pond Day 7 — Taking Notes and Packing Up

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Breakfast was delicious today! Hungry Jack pancakes with maple syrup, scrambled eggs with chopped tomatoes and scallions, and maple bacon on the side. Mmmmm.

I used the morning and the early afternoon to write up days 2-6 of this vacation, plus this portion of day 7. We need to be out by 10 AM tomorrow so the evening will be spent packing up.

All in all this has been a very nice vacation. Very relaxing. Neya has had the kids bedroom to herself with its four bunk beds. Joyce and Chuck has been sleeping in the master bedroom, and Pat and I have been sleeping on the foldaway sofa-bed under the ceiling fan.

This has suited me fine because I have easy access to the TV for late night movies or video games. Several days ago I watched the horror flick “Lake Placid“. It only occurred to be after I started watching it that it was about a 30 foot long crocodile living in a lake … in Maine.

Well it's about 5:20 PM now and time for dinner… all of the blog entries have been typed up to be posted tomorrow when I get home. Dinner is spaghetti. Yum! After that I've got to pack and build the fire for tonight. So after this there will likely be no more entries written. It's been fun. I will miss this place I think.

10:42 PM: Late night update–packing is going well. Pat's on a tear again. Lynnea took six more rides on the carousel tonight. My niece Samantha (who is Neya's age) stole the show at Karaoke Night in the movie tent with her rendition of “I Want Candy”. You should have seen her getting her thang on at the mic… I said to her Dad “You're gonna have to watch that one!”

Tonight's fire was pretty good, but short lived… there wasn't much firewood left. We had several pieces of corrugated cardboard from a box we had cut up, so I kept rolling pieces into artificial “paper logs” and stuffing those into the core. After awhile though we were down to whatever twigs and sticks I could scavenge from the ground around the camper. When I tired of that I said “That's it folks.” Neya and her cousins got to toast a few marshmallows and have fireside smores anyway. Nice closure to the week for them.

Neya's in bed now but her sunburn is bothering her. Poor kid. Time for another chapter of The Secret of Terror Castle!