Trailer as Infirmary, or Coughing in Paradise

WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT FROM CAMP WEBEGONE

Weekly High: 75.4
Low: 36.9
Wind Gust High: 5.6
Humidity: 32% - 87%
Rain: .21 inches

RICH'S NEW FROM CAMP WEBEGONE

So Friday it rains, and I - in my great wisdom - decide to put up a tarp, which is a fascinating project of trees, ropes, stakes and angles. Enthralled by my ingenuity, I ignore that the rain is soaking through my long-ago ineffective raincoat and the two shirts and a t-shirt underneath. Hours later I note how I feel chilled and finally get into dry clothes. Still in the “we be campers with a closet" idea, I do not turn on the heat until Cheryl is shivering and I put on the generator for the first time since we arrived. I spend the rest of my time trying to dry my shirts over the fire and finally trudge to bed. 

Well Tuesday, already on the edge of a bad cold, we head to Medford for our Marathon (we've got to figure a better way) shopping trip. Interspersed with a laundry load and a great visit with Mike and Diana (my brother and sis in law), we find ourselves just before closing at 7:45pm eating our Caesar Salad at Costco (actually a good dinner). We arrive home late, put away essentials, and the cold begins. Not the temperature, the other kind.

Since that Tuesday a week ago, I have been fighting and losing a chest cold, and yesterday we drove to Shady Cove where we found a great Nurse Practitioner who diagnosed Bronchitis. And I am now on the mend. Now I'm able to write this, which I could not have done yesterday..... An informative look at my vulnerability and capacity for bad judgment.

And coughing in amongst the trees and somehow both lamenting and celebrating that this is a cool place to be sick. But also a cool place and thence comes the trailer as infirmary. We have slept in the trailer every night and will until the cold exit (Cheryl is now fighting hers - we hope more successfully than I). We now are running the generator every night (luckily out of ear shot of other campers), and being low on energy have now watched 10 of 12 episodes of Garrows Law. It has been a real introduction to Trailer life, which has the advantage of heat control and easy access to essentials, like water and peeing. We look with anticipation toward returning to the tent and fires and waking to sunrise, but we now greatly appreciate the upside of having a trailer along for the ride.

In Sickness and in Health,

Rich 

 
CHERYL'S NEWS FROM CAMP WEBEGONE

One day as princess Cheryl sat in her sanctuary, a frog approached. The frog told princess Cheryl that if she she kissed the frog, he would turn into a handsome prince. Princess Cheryl, greatly daring, kissed the frog. And lo, the frog was transformed into Prince Rich Charming. Prince Rich and Princess Cheryl lived happily in Camp Webegone...until Prince Rich Charming became ill. At that point he was transformed into a toad.

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This may sound a bit harsh, but prince Rich Charming thought it was hilarious.

Cheryl