As we do at the end of each year, we spent the last two weeks (and New Year’s) of the year camping. Leaving home on Dec 20th the forecast was rain, rain, and more rain (L.A. got over three inches) and desert lows in the 30s. Is this camping weather?
Continue reading Camping Weather and some thoughts on 2019 & 2020
There hasn’t been much camping or backpacking this year, nor has there been much activity on this website. That’s because I’ve been stuck in an hourglass, or more precisely, I’ve been trying to dig myself out of debt. Not monetary debt, but trying to overcome a deficit in my time bank. I didn’t do anything wrong, the debt was planned – sort of – and now my time bank account has become overdrawn.
Continue reading Where has Nick Been? I’ve Been Stuck in an Hourglass!
As you know, if you have read my posts here, I get out quite often every year for backpacking and camping. Usually over a hundred nights a year. Well, that hasn’t been the case this summer: so far. You see, there is one very important rule in life:
Happy Wife = Happy Life
“You can’t play every weekend,” is something one would say to a child.
Children need to be assigned tasks, duties, and responsibilities. It is what parents should do – parent their children. Guide the children. The parents do this. The parents decide how children will allocate their time. Children can’t spend their entire childhood playing. Nor can children make the important decisions in their lives – they aren’t the parents.
If you have done a good job as a parent, your children will become self-sufficient and no longer need your help. They will leave home and not come back to live with you. This is the mark of good parenting – the children grow up, and leave the nest for good. Of course, a parent wants the children to come back to visit, but not come back to live.
My children are grown, self-sufficient and successful. I see no reason why I shouldn’t be allowed to play every weekend.