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Monday, April 24, 2006
OasisEven though Sultry Husband loves his job, the terrain where we live leaves a bit to be desired. He is a California boy after all, he needs green things to survive apparently.
Saturday afternoon we decided to explore a bit. We loaded up a bit of firewood, a picnic, and headed for the unknown. We had heard of a place called "Jacobs Lake" so we followed the signs and started to drive. We had never been there, so it took some time to find the actual lake, which was really just a pond that was even fenced off, so you can't even stick your toes into it. A strange place...
There was a good point to going up to Jacobs Lake though... We discovered a forest, I mean a real forest that only takes us about 30 minutes of driving to find! It was amazing. One minute you are looking out the window at desert terrain, complete with scrub oaks and sage brush. The next second you are in a dense pine forest!
We found a nice place to create a fire pit, cleared away the dry pine needles and started our fire. The girls ran around picking up huge pine cones and playing among the trees. It was a beautiful afternoon! Sultry Husband swears that we will go there at least twice a week... He has found his green oasis. It was a little strange at first to be the only people in this amazing forest. We could whoop and shout all we wanted and no one would hear us and be bothered.
My brother once told teased me about our camping practices on this blog... As he put it "Quit car campin' ya ninny"... I teased him back at the time, but I must now remind everyone that I have physical limitations that keep me from hiking back into the wilderness like I would enjoy... Therefore we are pretty limited to car camping as it were. This new place that we found is not well known, so the crowds are not present. Therefore, we can car camp and yet we can still be alone. It was very refreshing and put us all in a wonderful mood. We will visit Jacobs Lake again soon I am sure. Sultry Husband wants to go back this evening. I just laugh, nod my head, and know that we will go to the park instead.
