It was a dark and stormy night . . .

All right, I know my title is cliche.  Yesterday I headed to the Buffalo National River with a college group for a camping trip, hence my lack of post.  Given that we were hit by wave of wave of thunderstorms with torrential downpours, you may think I’m feeling pretty grumpy now.  Remarkably I’m not, and I think I can owe that to the company.  Everyone on the trip took off on it knowing that bad weather was on the way.  Everyone pitched in every time someone needed hands to raise a tent.  When tents got flooded (always check for leaks before trips like this!), other folks offered tent space. When a task needed doing in the “kitchen,” it got done.  The only complaints about the weather came in joking form.  And ultimately we got to do everything that we’d planned, if not always quite like we’d planned it.  We even had five beautiful hours for canoeing the river between rain storms.

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