July 28 - DIY Homestead - Early Morning Campfire and Coffee

July 28, 2022

Day 220 of the Adventure

Base Camp Coffee of the Day: English Toffee (tastes just like it sounds) 

I think that one of life's most simple pleasures is coffee by an early morning campfire. I enjoy evening fires too, but on a scale of 1-10, morning fires rate about 9.5 and evening fires rate around 7.2. All good to be certain. I think the evening fires catch me a bit weary from the day and struggling to stay awake. Now if you were asking me about the rating of falling asleep by a fire, then the evening fires win hands down. That's just my take on campfires. This morning I'm slowly nursing a cup of coffee and a campfire that is being slightly reluctant from last night's rain. We needed rain but this one wasn't much more than enough to get the morning's firewood wet. Nevertheless, it's gaining ground and providing the all-important morning ambiance to my day. With rain in the forecast for the next several days, the firewood is not the only thing that will be struggling around here. I have a feeling our solar plant will be doing the same. Oddly enough, when we first installed it, we had about 5 days without sunshine. That was the last five days before the sun decided to dominate every single day with 100-degree heat and cloudless sky for a month and a half straight. Our solar plant has really never had to show what it's made of since we've been here. Now it will get it's chance. 

It's been 220 days since we closed on the property we call Camp Run-Amuck. The journey has been a fascinating one so far. It was less than 60 days ago that we had to be moved onto the property. There was really no urgent need to get here. There was only a critical need to be moved out of our temporary living space at a cabin at the treehouses. (You Know........ Guests arriving that day) Anyway, the three months preceding our move to the woods was frantic. My good friend John commented upon a visit down here as he looked at all the piles of rock, brush, half completed roads, trenches for utilities that were not installed yet and the start of foundation work....... "You got things going on all over the place down here!" Yep, couldn't argue with that! It wasn't that we just wanted to work on twenty plus random projects all at once. Our schedule was being dictated by availability of rock truck deliveries, deadlines for removal of a previously "un-approved" driveway entrance (not by us but the previous owner) Getting a road base installed so our trucks would quit sinking in the mud. Rain in general delaying projects. and so on and so on. 

But we're here, the cabin is livable albeit far from complete. We get to experience morning campfires with coffee almost every single morning, and..... many of our breakfasts are cooked outdoors on a camp stove or over a campfire. The common thread there is the word "Camp" which has always been one of our top five activities. I wish you a pleasant morning with just the right amount of caffeine (or slightly more)  

Carry On!

 Adventure Quote: “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”

― Roy T. Bennett

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