A rain storm batters our corn
We left our campsite in the rain and came home to find the wind that had accompanied the rain had blown down our corn. My boys and I tied it back up today with some old parachute cord. Glad the rain held off until our last night of camping. I posted Jackie Clay’s blog as soon as we got home last night. She sends the blog and questions to me and I post them. Annie’s internet is now active in North Carolina so she’ll 
resume administration of the blogs again pretty soon. That will make Jackie’s blog go much smoother. There are a lot of technical considerations when administering multiple blogs, such as Jackie’s, David Lee’s, Silveira’s, and mine. They have to do with programs like Feedburner, Technorati, etc., all stuff that goes over my head rather quickly. I need the information these programs provide, but Annie is better able to handle the technical nuances that arise with them, so I’ll glad to hand blog administration back to her in a few days. My legs are comfortably sore from camping. I rode my bike every day, swam in the river, and chopped the wood we brought along. Good healthy trip for a 63-year-old publisher who must spend a lot of time behind a
computer. One of our camping neighbors, Lou and Dalene Daniel, of Cherry Valley, California, had a really nifty big wall tent they had bought from Reliable Tents in Billings, Montana. He’s a retired fireman and they now camp all over. Their home is near Palm Springs in the desert, so they have to travel about a thousand miles for their two weeks of camping at Quosatana on the Rogue River. 
Lou had built a barrel stove for his tent out of a kit he had bought from an online outfit — vogelzang.com. By a kit, I mean he bought the front panel and the collar, then welded up the rest onto a small barrel himself. Their tent was a big wall tent you use on hunting expeditions — at least 20 feet by 10 feet. He says the stove keeps it very comfortable in any weather. I asked him to do an article on him welding up his next stove, and he said he would. He’s going to try and sell them online. He also had a hot shower enclosure outdoors, which he bought from Cabela’s catalogue. That’s what I missed most — a shower. But 
swimming in the river kept us fairly clean. They also had a small Coleman oven in which his wife could cook bread. Lenie wants one so she can cook up apple and blackberry cobbler the next time we go to Quosatana. I’m always finding good ideas or helpful products from people I meet.
