Rainy Days and Mondays....

It is raining so hard here today that what little snow we had the last 3 w/ends is gone now, and the grass is greening up again. (the grass that isn't under water, that is). reminds me of a time long long ago...

i was 4 or 5 and we had a little trailer one summer. every time we went out for a weekend trip it rained, or something awful happened with either the trailer or the car. dad sold the trailer that fall, and we didn't go camping ever again. 

i have snippets of memories of the few summer weekends though  and thought i would share them today. i remember one time it rained so hard we wound up at a motel because the campground flooded. in the little double room with 2 cots, mom and dad had a bed, grampy had the other one, and david and i had the cots. we had our dog, suzy with us too. my memory is faded from years, but i recall sitting on the floor with one of those little dart gun kits, you know the ones with the suction cup ends that never stuck after you shot them? yeah, the more you spit on them the worse they stuck. i also remember colouring, a LOT.  mom and dad and grampy would have a drink or two and then nap. i walked outside (between showers with suzy, i think david read. it was a fun trip. 

i also recall a different campground on a different week end. it rained so hard, and i remember david being outside with newspapers over his head, trying to get the campfire going so that dad could cook some lobster. (live lobster). the fire was a bust, so they tried to do it in the trailer, the lobster was having none of it, and snapped at dad, causing him to drop the poor guy.....and he skittered around the trailer floor. i jumped up on the top bunk, to stay out of the way.   the next morning we were set to leave, and i remember swimming in the biggest puddle out front of the trailer. 


another time, we were in new hampshire, and it was raining something awful. we were at a mall, dad, grampy and david were in a store and mom and i were out front beside the horsie that you put a dime in for a ride. mom resulted through her purse, found a dime and put in in the horsie. Horsie failed to run, however. i was sad, mom was frustrated, and just as she gave the horsie a kick, all the lights went out in the mall. some man was walking by and grumbled something to mom about look what you did. it seemed that lightning had hit a transformer at the very instant mom kicked Horsie. dad, grampy and david were locked in the store, because the power was out. and then it began to rain....hard. my next memory of that trip was staying at another motel. 


there was a time when the hitch broke on the trailer, trailer got a flat, car got a flat, that summer was just not our summer to have a trailer. and in the fall it was gone. and we never attempted camping again, ever. 


did you ever travel and camp as a kid? do share, either in my comments or track back to your blog. Make today GREAT~ poet.