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Aloha! I am "camping" at Bellows Beach as you read this blog. Actually, I am staying in a cottage as the Scouts camp. Oh, the life of a mom!
Life is not too hard as I continue to post pictures around Hawaii at ALOHA ON MY MIND at this link. It is a weekly blog with a giveaway (book choice from convention stash).
I also reflect upon life at CELEBRATE LITTLE VICTORIES at this link. It is a daily post and I invite you to share!
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| Sailing on Pearl Harbor Channel |
My buddy Cathy Maxwell reminded me to take the Avon Consumer Survey at this link. Just finished it ... how about you?
We have winners at SOS Aloha!
Jenn LeBlanc's THE RAKE AND THE RECLUSE, new serial novel
- Karen is the winner!
Humor with the Pink Panther, book choice from convention stash
- Marlene is the winner!
Linda Wisdom's A DEMON DOES IT BETTER
- June and Na are the winners!
Victoria Connelly's DREAMING OF MR. DARCY
- Liz is the winner!
Fiona Ingram's THE SECRET OF THE SACRED SCARAB
- Barbara is the winner!
Rebecca York's book covers
- Dorothy is the winner!
Michael Draper's SPLATTERED BLOOD
- Chrissy is the winner!
Let's go back to camping - love it or loathe it? Do you have a funny story? One randomly selected commenter will win a book choice from my convention stash. This giveaway is open to all readers. Comments are open through Saturday, January 28.
Mahalo,
Kim in Hawaii
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| Camping at the beach has some benefits ... ... these teens created a mermaid! |
Congrats to all the winners. I hope you have a great time Kim. I myself am not a camper at all. I'm too much of a diva. I like air conditioning and sleeping in a bed. I've been once and I didn't really like it. My BF tries to get me to go all the time.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners. I've never been camping before. I do want to see how it is.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all of the winners!
ReplyDeleteThe beach looks fantastic right now - it's been very cold this week:)
Enjoy!
Congratulations everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I went camping the tent almost washed away. The weather had set in. So, even after we got home we could not get the tent dry. It went so mouldy. I'm not a very keen camper at all.
Thank you and congrats to everyone else.
ReplyDeleteI used to love camping in tents. Since my back got injured, I could not do that any more. A cabin or a camper, I would love it, as long as my kindle is charged and I have some good books to read. Right now, I would love the warmth you have there (it is freakin' cold in Kentucky!).
I used to love to camp with my girl scouts. I have lots of funny stories. In the middle of the night, one of my youngest daughter fell off the cot and rolled right over the platform. We were sleeping in platform tents. We heard something but when we looked there was nothing there, no sleeping bag no pillow, nothing. We thought maybe we had dreamed her being there. But there she was out sdie the tent sound asleep.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners!!! I've been camping twice and both times my friend and I refuse to "rough" it and stayed at a local motel while the rest of the gang "rough" it.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that camping, cabin or otherwise. I went once and that was one time too many!
ReplyDeleteMy idea of camping is renting a log cabin at Big Bear Lake...complete with running water, clean sheets, a kitchen and a fireplace. LOL
ReplyDeleteI went camping in a tent with my parents one time and decided never to do it again. The ground was cold, hard and the flying bugs ate me alive. The bathroom was a bush and we ate the fish we caught for breakfast. Now who in their right mind feeds a 9 year old fish for breakfast and thinks they will have a good time and want to do it again? Not me.
My brother and his wife loved to camp and did so at a national park, where a Boy Scout troop 1) put a baseball through their windshield and 2) jammed the door to the outhouse while s-in-l was in there. Bro swore he would never have anything to do w/ Boy Scouts, but, of course, he had 2 boys and became a Scout leader w/ an Eagle Scout of whom to boast.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the winners! Bellows Beach looks like a beautiful place to be! Yes, I do enjoy camping. Though now I'm at the point where I enjoy camping in tent cabins, cabins, yurts, etc. Tent camping is fun, but I usually don't get much sleep at all...need to find a really good camping pad to sleep on.
ReplyDeleteTaking the survey now...
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the winners!
ReplyDeleteThe last time I went camping, I had to set up the tent in the rain. Needless to say, I refuse to camp anywhere that isn't close to facilities with running hot water, preferably with a hot tub and/or sauna near by. No using the bushes for me! Or shower-in-a-bag either!
I hope you're nice and relaxed at the beach, Kim! It's too windy and gloomy for a day at the beach. An indoor day with a book is more like it here. I don't normally camp but I did once in seventh grade -at a haunted site! Pretty cool, since I didn't encounter ghosts :)
ReplyDeleteYay, I won! Thank you for A Demon Does It Better =)
Wtg, winners!
ReplyDeleteI loved camping when I was younger.
I took the Avon survey.
I was an assistant girl scout leader for a while and also volunteered for both my daughters. There was the time we forget my one daughter's bag with everything in it - lots of people lent her things and luckily that was the one year that both of them were at the same camp. Then there was the time I got up in the middle of the night (darn that coffee) and I stepped on something in my stocking feet that went crunch (saw a 5 inch centipede as thick as my thumb the next morning - oh yuk) and then had to go down a long, windy trail to get to the hole in the ground and I heard animal noises halfway down and ran like heck in the dark lol. And then there was the time the leader got us lost on a mountain in the pouring rain and it got dark - fun and games roflmao.
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Thank you so much! I’m excited about reading a serial book, with pictures, on my e-reader. How far we’ve come! Congratulations to all the winners.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child I was forced to go camping. My father would take my brother fishing and my mother would hole up in the tent and read. I was left to fend for myself as long as I kept quiet. I'm allergic to all kinds of bugs, especially mosquitoes. I would come home with my eyes almost swollen shut as a reaction to the bites I would get. The good thing that came out of those experiences was my love of reading.
Many years later, my husband and I were camping at the family property in east Texas. No running water, no indoor plumbing and sleeping in sleeping bags in the bed of the pickup truck. We did have a tent cover that fit the truck to protect us from the elements. In the middle of the night, it started to rain. Picture two adults scurrying around in our underwear - and boots - trying to get everything undercover! We still laugh when we remember this.
Now, I’ve developed airborne allergies and I can’t enjoy the outdoors anymore (back to having swollen eyes, just without the bites!).
I've been camping once and did not like it.
ReplyDeleteI love to camp, but don't get to do it enough. Whether it's tent, trailer or cabin, I'll take them all. The peace of the outdoors just calls to me. Our family has always camped and our two daughters went camping when they were still in diapers. They developed an appreciation for our wonderful earth at an early age and are now passing it on to their families. Hubs and I haven't taken our grandchildren camping yet, but we have taken them fishing. So much fun!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to this weeks winners!
Kim,
ReplyDeleteYou have the most unique and colorful blog with the photos that you add. I enjoy it very much.
Thanks for posting the article about "Splattered Blood."
My own camping experiences are 1. getting drenched in a sudden downpour with our baby's diapers absorbing lots of water and expanding, but our baby was dry.
2. At Corpus Christie where we used Lakland AFB equipment and a part to the tent was missing so we slept on cots under the moon. Romantic until the wind started blowing and I ended up with so much sand in my eyes I needed medication.
Mike
Thanks for the great post! I'm...not a camper. I love indoor plumbing and my idea of a vacation/relaxing does not include the lack thereof.
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful week everyone!
Have not camp out yet,would try it at yosmite,
ReplyDeleteKimh
I'm the type who will happily stay in the nearest motel/hotel with lights, air conditioning and an indoor bathroom while praising your fortitude in becoming one with nature!
ReplyDeleteI found out that camping and I do not work together when I was a Girl Scout. The first time I went camping I woke up in water since our tent had a leak. There was an outhouse, something I had never encountered and then we had to cook our breakfast on an open fire which turned out to be the best part of the whole trip.
ReplyDeleteLOATHE it! Can't stand won't do at least untill the kids ask again! LOL!
ReplyDeleteNot really a camping kind of girl... I would prefer a hotel, lol :)
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