again delayed post.. since I didn’t want   to have to be online during hogisland .

BTW ‘hogisland’   was a miss-reading that ben and john did of a map that labeled an island nearby called ‘hog’s island’ as hogisland’.. which sounds so much more mystical… hence the name of the trip 

 

I woke ealry after a great night sleep…    FIrst thing I did was to run the path aroudn the island.. there are 5 camp sites..  one was always empt.. and average of 3 folks per. meant maybe 15 folks on the island. 

 

 

the east side of the sland was really hot.. and covered with ripe raspberries. 

 

when I got back, breakfast was in full swing. here are andy. john and jeff. eationg the wonderful ginger cookies tht diane had sent along with me. 

 

ben , moyers and andy here. 

 

gabe lent me his cool pot that doubles as a cell phone charger. 

 

kielbasa on 

 

jeff, who lives in Hamburg Germany, runs a cheesecake company there.. he braugth one wiht s and it was SO good !

 

I spent the day hking. tlaking. meditating. sleeping 

 

 

in afternoon we all got the money for the boat rentals and  grocieris out.. we’d all braugh it all in 1’s. the idea was to stamp it wiht be’s ‘get money out of politics’ stamps 

 

pelase check out https://www.stampstampede.org

 

 

mis stamping ,  our buddy CHuck shows up in his boat with more supplies and AMy is almost 16 year old dog.. good. good dog 

 

Baure and I took a sunset cruse whiel others worked on dinner 

 

 

 

 

then an early bed time..

such a relaxing day !
great freinds. great conversation.. great setting !
nite all. nite sam
-mc

Just getting around to posting pics from this weeks Hogsland kayak camping adventure.. Hogisland is an annual trip wiht my friends. many of them burnign man nuddies.. it’s such a good time. 

I actually did have cell signal out there.. I just didn’t want to spend time online blogging.. hope oyu forgive me..

 

day started with a wonderful sight.. the completely full dumptster was hauled away aroudn 6:30 in the morning. 

 

about 1:30 all my hogisland freinds.met up at  Bens to start gettign ready 

 

we mounted up and off we went to the lake 

 

we got to Kilcare about 3PM and I signed off of work.. we unloaded th boats and a ton of provisions. 

 

paddle boss John check out our gear.. he runs a tight  ship.. or actually 7 tight ships 

 

and we were off.. 

 

a mile or so later we landed at woods island, site 2.. same as the year before last. .. more thnan a mile off shore in all directions. 

 

 

first order of bisenss was to get the hand cranked blender goign for cocktails !

 

then John got the fire goign for dinner 

 

we had to collect a whole bunch of wood 

 

and a quick swim in the suprisingly warm water. 

then on with dinner !

corn on the cob 

 

as the sun started to set 

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moyers looking gilded 

 

then steaks (we had veggie stuff for Jeff and me) 

 

then a lot of sitting and talkign untill a huge swarm of gnats chased us to our tents at 10:30…

great night’s sleep

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Sun just set on our dumpster days.. we’ve just fillet up a 27 cubic foot dumpster with 59 years of accumulated junk. I’ts been an amazing archealogical journey into the lives of our family. lots of great memories.. some very sad memories. and a ton of stuff we’d forgotten we had. . We feel liek we can move aorund in our house again.. or at least in our attic. 

 

every bone in my body is tired.. bt happy 

 

did take a break today to prep for the next 3 days of kayak camping.. I ran into my campign buddies at SHaws today.. and wanted to get a picture of the prep 

 

later in the the evening we went over to Brad, lee and anne maries for a remembrance fire for our friend  pucket.. his birthday would have been  today

 

they have Sam’s picture on their fridge. 

 

been thinking of pucket all day

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Diane and I spet the bulk of the day continuing to purge the house.. we threw   away about 43 yards of junk and we gave away three carloads  to goodwill and sold tons of stuffat the yard sale. the house is so much lighter

we even put a piano in the dumpster since we couldnt find it a home !

 

 

diane won the prize today when  she found $100 dollars in cash her parents had given to gabe when he was born,, 

it was unopened in a box of 23 year old mail !

 

around 6:30 we headed over to tatiana and ben’s for a Ligo celebration

 

 

.. ligo is latvisn midsummer..  

 

it’s allso a great phyical cosmology experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_interferometer) 

 

I wore this to the ligo party

 

 

Tatiana had cooked Plov .. a rice and lamb dish in a traditional Plov cooker 

 

here’s tatiana and her mom 

 

 

ben brought out the ice cream in a whellbarrow.. there’s always ice cream when he’s involved 🙂 

 

great sunset from the porch 

 

ok.. can’t  stay awake any more

 more tomorrow

nite all. nite sam

-me