Opening Day!
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Today’s the first official open day for the campground. We hear there are a couple of RVs expected to arrive for the weekend. The folks don’t actually have their first work day until Sunday, so the plan is to do a little landscaping around our site today. They bought some flowers at a local nursery yesterday and also bought something called “Earth boxes” to plant tomatoes and herbs for Mom to cook with.
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These earth boxes have a fatal flaw, they raise the plants above our special ‘strike zone’. We feel leaving them unmarked makes them vulnerable to woodland creature attack, a fate which will not occur to the car tires.
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Our olfactory examination of the Earth Boxes revealed we’ll have several kinds of heirloom tomatoes, something the folks seem quite excited about. We aren’t sure what the big deal is - if it’s not meat, cheese, pizza crust, Ben and Jerry’s frozen yogurt, or Cider Mill donuts, we see no point in wasting our tummy space on it. I mean what would we do with a Mr. Stripey anyway?
To kick the season off, all the work campers and the campground owners got together for a pot luck dinner last night. We got a little sample of what Mom made, some true comfort food for a cool, breezy day. She combined two recipes to come up with this one, and says it has more calories than the two original recipes put together.