Backyard Covid-19 Camping

We decided to play it safe and camp it at home. This is the weekend we usually start our spring camping at Keowee-Toxaway State Park. SC has not shut down camping yet in state parks, but we are trying to stay healthy for a lot of reasons. One of them is my father’s health is pretty bad and I need to be to help him. We hire a pet sitter when we are gone. We would have taken the dogs but not the cats and just didn’t want anyone coming in right now. I thought for fun I will review our backyard camping experience.

Our site in our driveway is on a concrete pad up under a red aluminum carport. So we didn’t fool with the side tent this time. There is stable under the carport to eat at. Nearby is a fire ring with a couple of chairs and a an old metal glider seat that has seen better days next to a giant rose bush and block wall. The campground or my yard has 4 magnolia trees that are not in bloom yet. An eastern Redbud is blooming as were some hyacinths and daffodils. This being pollen season here every thing is covered in green and yellow pollen.

The only bad thing I can see about camping at home was I ended up doing yard work, trimming hedges and weeding. We did have good weather with a little rain Friday night. I squeezed in a 40 mile bike ride on Saturday.

Since we live in the city, it is not the most quiet place to camp. We do live near a park in the city but our street is also US 178 through town so the tractor trailers pass by from time to time as well as police, ambulances & fire trucks. One nearby attraction is we are within walking distance of 2 really good Mexican restaurants, a Mexican grocery & a Mexican bakery. It is a safe place to camp as our neighbor is an 80 year old who sees everything


Hoping to do some real camping soon.

 

...........how's the TP supply?

 

Thanks for posting this, we have cancelled our immediate camping plans as well. The redbuds look beautiful. Will be waiting awhile for ours to bud here in Northern Illinois - 3 inches of snow yesterday but will hopefully be gone quickly...

 

Good for now, we discovered the hardware store up the street has it.

 

Best thing I've seen today! Thanks for the laugh. Pictures are beautiful. Our teardrop is still in the garage; no flowers blooming yet in Massachusetts (well, one crocus); I too live on a busy highway, but if we stay behind the house and just look out back, we can see a small brook, and spy on the neighbors (because our trees don't have any leaves yet). A reminder that attitude is everything/

 

Our backyard is not too bad actually for the noise. The main thing you hear is the sirens. We are on a busy road as I said and two blocks behind us is Main St. We are in neighborhood that most of the homes were built by 1950 but we are the edge of it. One direction you go through a park for a about a mile but from my yard I can see the beginning of the area full of shopping centers, pharmacies and so on in the other direction. Once the leaves are on the trees, we see less of it and in about two weeks we will be there.