Tab-n-Deanna's Page: Week in Review

September 9th, 2006 Saturday. Temperature 68*

Well vacation is almost over and so is the camping. We left the Lake Friday morning. Ken and Kathy will be leaving shortly here this morning. They are headed to Hershey Pa. to vend at a show. They sell a fantastic tape called Rescue Tape. This is the greastest stuff since buttons on a shirt! It completely replaces electrical tape. It is a silicon based tape and has no adhesive. It fuses to itself. Once left it will cure into a solid piece of silicon providing a water tight seal for electric wires. Beats the crap out of electrical tape which gets all gooey when hot. The other nice thing is this stuff will seal pressure. I tested it a while back on an air hose. I wrapped it will about 5 wraps and turned on the pressure and wa-la. No leak. That is holding about 120 psi. It is all I use now. Worth keeping in your car for an emergency like a leaking radiator or heater hose.

Well Thursday was an interesting day at the lake. Janice and Dean came up to the lake and brought Chicken and Slaw. Kathy made Pasta salad and Deanna made Baked beans and Mac and Cheese. Doni had a doctors appointment and when she came back she brought Ice Cream and fixin's. So we stuffed ourselves and then topped it all off with dessert.
I found this HUGE catapilar crawling along and had to collect it for a photo opportunity. As you can see it is quite large. I saw the Naturalist Debbie at the park and asked her what it was and she told us it is a Hickory Horned Devil, it turns into a moth and apparently quite a large one! Shortly thereafter I found this HUGE spider which I did not get a picture of but it was about 2-1/2" diameter. Debbie said that it was a purse spider as it was carrying a egg sac on it's belly. Said it will bite pretty hard and that it was a part of the Wolf spider group. Didn't pick it up to examine :) .

A link to what this creature turns into is here.
Now for the real excitement. about a 100 yards away a couple of cars pull up and out get a man a woman and a girl in what looked like a Jeanie costume. They proceed to take lots of pictures. Curious as I am, I take the dog for a walk and while walking that way I see this girl pull off her top and change! Now we are not talking shyly either. As I am coming back past she comes over and wants to pet Major. I asked her if they were doing a photo shoot and she says yes but they did not know what magazine yet as they will submit it to several. She was originally from Arizona and now living in Springfield. So I wander back to the campsite and must confess that all of the guys were watching in anticipation with binoculars :) Now mind you there are 8 of us all together and most of us are watching this curious happening. Well sure enough how many pictures can you take of Tinkerbell? Time to change. Off came the top to change to a Bikini (in the open again of course) then OFF COME THE BOTTOMS! WE (being the guys) decided she was a real blonde! :) :) By this time they realize we are watching, (ARE THEY BLIND, WE HAVE BEEN OGGLING FOR AN HOUR) so now she has the nerve to flip us off. HA! The trick is on you, we got the show. WOW, never thought I would have seen that at the park but can't say I am disappointed (insert evil grin here) . Of course the women thought we were terrible for watching all of this, HELLO McFLY! NOW WHERE have THEY BEEN! Have they forgotten WHO we ARE?
Anyway we finished off the evening with a huge campfire and enjoyed each others storys of traveling over the past year and spoke of future travels and destinations. Was sure a great week to camp. Cool at night and not to hot during the day. Only rain we saw was Tuesday night and it rained for long enough we were getting a little worried about whether or not we would be able to get out.

My modifications seemed to be beneficial to the heating system as it performed much better than before with temperatures getting down in the 50's at night.

Here is a picuture of the Buzzards that hang out in this tree in the morning and evening.