Hello Everyone!!!!

How is everyone doing?  Are you enjoying your summer? It is 98 degrees here today so pretty warm.  I was thinking about the pool today.  It sounds cool and refreshing.  Also,  I was thinking about when I was a kid and what I did in the summer for fun.  There was bike riding, going to the pool, playing baseball in the lot next door to our home, having homemade popsicles under the shade tree in the backyard.  My brother and I always enjoyed our summers and all the fun things we did.  I remember one summer  we decided we wanted to go camping. So we asked mom if we could get a tent and being the ingenious mom that she was she built us a tent in the backyard. She took a couple of blankets  and put them on the clothesline and attached them with clothespins.  Then she put down a piece of tarp and then put blankets on top of it.  Then she showed us

how to make a homemade sleeping bag.

How to make a Homemade Sleeping Bag

1. Start with two blankets

2.Place left half of one blanket over right half of the other blanket.

3.Fold left half of bottom blanket over the two blanket layers you already have and then the right half of the last blanket over the stack.

4. Carefully pin with large safety or blanket pins.

5.Now fold up one end and pin it.

6. Crawl in and sleep snug as a bug in a rug.

After we fixed our sleeping bag we grabbed our pillows, flashlight, snack, and headed out to our tent.

Dad would even fix us a small campfire and  all of us would roast marshmallows and make smores.  Then we would sing songs. We had great fun and didn't have to buy anything.

I used to lay out in my backyard on a pallet in the summer and read my books.  I loved doing it and my mom would always fix me a snack and some lemonade and I would spend my summer afternoon reading and enjoying the outdoors.

So I am going to talk about some good books to read about camping and how to get your children or grandchildren outside to read and enjoy the outdoors this summer.

Make a homemade tent or if you have a real tent set it 

up outside and have some fun reading and enjoying the great outdoors this summer.

Here are some pics of homemade tents I found .  I don't really have a pic of the one my mom made for my brother and I but I sure do remember it which was a long time ago.  So I know I loved it  to remember it all this time.  SO make a tent today and read some books in it with your child or grandchild.  See you next time with some camping books to share with you.