Making up for lost time

Did you miss me? I missed you!  Katie, Avonlea and I took a couple of days off and headed for Caddo Lake State Park last week, so I missed a few days there.  We had an amazing time, saw many wonderful sights and learned some really interesting trivia about that part of Texas.  Simplicity came to my mind a few different times over our long weekend...

 First of all, how much stuff do three people need for two nights?!?!

But Katie had a good point; we could camp out for two nights or twenty with the same amount of gear, and just replenish our food and water as needed. Good point, Kate! So really, it looks like a lot but it's covering our needs and we're comfortably appreciative. Sounds good.

We have some amazing friends back in Abilene that know how much we love camping,and anticipated that we would need a little bigger tent to house our growing family, so this tent was a baby shower present from them. We broke it in admirably on this trip, because about seven hours from the time this pic was snapped, we would be riding out a pretty decent thunderstorm that would continue to rain until just before dawn. We all managed to keep dry enough to stay warm and cozy. Tent = win!

Waking up to a cool East Texas morning, greeting the sun and wetting a hook. It doesn't get much better or simpler than this!

For more pics from out adventures, check out my Facebook page.

So, that leaves me with Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday to gather up five items per day, and here it all is, unceremoniously piled together:

8 hardback books about fishing, a few more misc. books, a few pieces of pottery, a money box and coin pouch, a extra set of drill bits, and an unopened collectable Star Wars quartet that probably isn't worth $10. Oh well, they're out of my life now.

Oh, by the way, did I mention I caught an alligator?  ;-)