#WeekendCoffeeShare: Hayes Haunt

Good morning once again from Onsted, Michigan, here at Hayes State Park. We are back for Hayes Haunt, a Halloween camping weekend we’ve been coming to for many years now. We set up camp in the dark and light rain Friday night, but everything went well considering we had to make the infamous turn with a huge dip that has cost many a camper their sewer pipe. Trying to back the trailer into our site with two wooden posts across the street made for some difficulty.  But we made it unscathed. Just wet.

So how was your week? It went fast for me again, but probably the last time that will happen for a while. The week before camping always flies, especially when you’re checking things off your list like a madwoman. This weekend will fly too, since it’s our last outing of the year (trying not to burst into tears). Once home, we will be cleaning inside and out, winterize and put the cover on until spring. So not ready for this season to end. But, I will console myself with my backyard fire pit and know that those times aren’t over. But what will I look forward to on the weekends now? Sleeping in? Okay, that works.

So I’m sipping coffee as I cook sausage outside this morning, reminiscing about last weekend when we were SO lucky to enjoy an absolutely perfect fall camping weekend. It’s been a chilly one this weekend, 45 for a high today, but I’m beyond grateful it stayed dry. We had plenty of wood to burn all day and into the night. Carving pumpkins worked out pretty well, I just have a bowl full of guts and seeds I need to clean when I get home as I don’t want any of that going into the gray water tank.

We had a ball with the trick or treaters – Bill had the baby mask on again with the creepy lullabye music (check out Haunted Music Box on Napster!) and freaked out both the kids and the parents.

Except for a few.  Several kids came back and said, “Hey, Baby Man!” and high fived him..  Hahaha..

After dark we paid homage to one of our favorite haunts (no pun intended), Stagecoach Stop as they put on their annual Haunting in the Hills – haunted house, hayride and the train car of terror, which actually once served as Eisenhower’s private train car. They added several effects to the haunted house – it was awesome!

We returned and stoked up the fire and visited with our friends, talking of past outings and other travels, when we heard a sound like I’ve never heard. Then we heard it again, it had moved direction. And then once more, again moving direction. Whatever it was had to have flown, because it couldn’t have run that fast – we’re in a campground, it didn’t have a clear shot. Very strange.

With camping season over, this will be a relatively major shift to other things. We’ve gone out quite a few times this year and it seemed I was always planning and preparing for the next trip. I can’t believe it will be 5 months before the next one!

More coffee? How was your week?

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