Campfires: Love them or hate them?
For some, campfires mean bedtime stories, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. For my wife and me, on a recent overnight at Lathrop State Park near Walsenburg CO, campfire smoke meant sneezing, itchy ey...
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We love them. I know some don't like the smell in their rig but we like the smell it brings. On cool evenings we make sure the windows are open so the smoke wafts inside. Then, each time we go back to the trailer to start the next trip we get that great smell as soon as we open the door. Different strokes and all.......
Last weekend we brought our beagle and she spent time by the fire with us. It was a messy, rainy weekend so she got a little muddy and needed a bath when we got home. Scrubbed her down as well as one could but naturally we can't get much of her head so we don't get water in her ears. The next day my wife was giving her some lovin' and noticed the top of her head still smelled like a campfire! Funny!
We used the pie irons for pizza pies for lunch on Sunday. We used our neighbor's fire that we just met and turned them onto the pies. They had fruit ones before but never pizza. It was nice bringing a new treat to someone we just met. Meeting and making new friends is one of the things I really enjoy about camping.
Last weekend we brought our beagle and she spent time by the fire with us. It was a messy, rainy weekend so she got a little muddy and needed a bath when we got home. Scrubbed her down as well as one could but naturally we can't get much of her head so we don't get water in her ears. The next day my wife was giving her some lovin' and noticed the top of her head still smelled like a campfire! Funny!
We used the pie irons for pizza pies for lunch on Sunday. We used our neighbor's fire that we just met and turned them onto the pies. They had fruit ones before but never pizza. It was nice bringing a new treat to someone we just met. Meeting and making new friends is one of the things I really enjoy about camping.
