Elder Daughter has been reading “Swallows and Amazons” recently, and decided that she’d like to camp out in the back yard as a bit of an adventure. We’ve borrowed a tent from my parents for this.<\/p>\n
Dad came around yesterday to show us how to put the tent up – he said it wouldn’t be intuitive. We did a test run and it went up just fine, but I can’t imagine we would have figured it out without him! The girls enjoyed getting inside the tent and imagining the possibilities.<\/p>\n
We only have a small backyard, and much of it is taken up by garden and the swing-set. So we tucked the tent in an area that we noted would have a water frontage if we had a downpour. (We have had so much rain here this summer that the ground is full of water, and if it rains there are parts of the yard that become ponds quite quickly!)<\/p>\n
We considered having the sleep out last night, but realised that we still need to organise mattresses to sleep on, so down came the tent again in preparation for our mower man coming today.<\/p>\n
Last night at about 10pm, a huge electrical storm came over. It was terribly close, with lightning and thunder following VERY close on its heels. The rain thrashed down, and at one stage we thought we might have heard small hail. I’ve just heard a report on the radio that we got about 27mm (about an inch) of rain in this area!<\/p>\n
So I’m very glad we didn’t go camping last night. The position we had the tent in would have indeed filled up with water. I can imagine there would have been some wet bodies seeking shelter in the safety of the house! And the girls aren’t real fond of electrical storms so I can’t imagine they would have agreed to staying out in one!<\/p>\n
We’ll find another night to have our holiday sleep out.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, the book keeps getting closer and closer. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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