June 28 - Camping Equipment

The tent, camp stove, lanterns and cookware stacked in the corner of the shed look so sad in the winter. But come June, Spencer gets everything out and checks it over to make sure it's in good working order. Some of these things are old friends: the Coleman stove we first used in the Okeefenokee Swamp more than 30 years ago. Some are brand-new: the shiny stove-top toaster we bought to replace the old one so rusty that we couldn't lift the wires.