A Lot of Firsts for Mooselette

I’ve been off for a week on unpaid furlough, so we had a great opportunity to get caught up on things. The best came last. Mooselette and Daddy Moose came down for a campout. Mooselette got to set up her tent all by herself.

While I watched camp, Saturday morning. Moose managed to slip out and get in some spring squirrel hunting. One meaty male fox squirrel was a little slow recognizing his peril.

Mooselette Fires the Rascal
The other big thing was that she had sufficiently grown so that her Savage Rascal finally fit her. Daddy Moose gave her plenty of gentle instruction, and Mooselette responded with a new favorite thing to do.

The shaman’s new Tarp Tent

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I got to try out a new tarp I picked up on Amazon. It’s the 10X12 Gold Armour Rainfly. I have been looking for a good way to camp minimally, simply because most of the times we camp at the farm, things are pretty much optimal. This puppy was only $31, and came with all the fixings. It also had sturdy tabs. I set it up diagonally as shown with a mosquito net over a queen-sized air mattress.

The mosqui

The shaman’s new Tarp Tent

to net was a poor choice for this application. It had only a single attachment point above the head, and it left me no room to move around. This one, a standard Coghlan’s 78X63″ net, would have worked fine.That’s the air mattress I used. It leaked.

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