I have lived through the campout!! And I did laugh my ass off!!
Appropriately, our girl scout reunion campout started off with a Good Deed. The girls saw a stray dog roaming around. He was very friendly. He was wearing a blue harness with a note attached, reading something along the lines “I am a nice, friendly dog, please take me in”. As most of you know, I have hit my quota with dogs (4!!) and everyone else at our campout already has a dog. So we gave him some water and called the town shelter. They were just about to close but agreed to stay open until we could deliver our new friend. Poor guy — why would someone abandon a dog like that? Especially in the heat we were having? Daughter #1 swears it was the same dog that she saw on Wednesday – so that’s at least 3 days he was roaming around. Some people are ignorant assholes.
The rest of the evening was spent grilling, eating, swimming & laughing. The bugs (slugs!) and the heat just added to our hilarity. All told we had three tents – which were like ovens. Luckily someone had brought a netted structure – the kind of thing that if you were camping for an extended time you would set up a picnic table in. The Moms decided to move our sleeping bags in there. Unfortunately, it has no bottom, the netted edges just skim the ground. This allows slugs access. eeww!
I don’t know how we couldn’t seem to outrun the slugs.(that’s a said commentary)
We ended up dragging some chaise lounge chairs inside and sleeping on those. Naturally, we had set everything up on a slope, so spent most of our sleeping hours slowly sliding off our chairs! I am posting a picture of our operation, but will not link it to a larger size — the girlfriends would kill me.
We all agreed that we should do it again next year!
Of course, I was wrecked for Saturday and spent most of the time in a stupor.
purlingswine 
Dear Ann and other girl scout mommies. I’m glad you enjoyed your nostalgic campout. As the mother of sons and a former cub scout denmother, I can tell you that if you ever camped with a group of prepubescent boys, you would not be so eager to spend another night in the wilds.
Here are some things I’m sure never happened to you. These are actual true tales from my years at baiting hollow boy scout camp’s numerous family camping weekends.
1. A certain trail had to be closed one Saturday because someone’s mom and dad decided to have a roll in the hay right there in the leaves on the forest floor. You don’t want a group of little boys eyeballing marital bliss at close range.
2. Dishwashing came to a complete halt at our campsite one afternoon because some kid decided to “keep” the largemouth bass he’d caught that afternoon. As a temporary pet. In the campsite sink.
3. Middle of the night, and I hear the sound of a stream of liquid hitting the dusty ground near the front flap of our tent.
ME: “, are you peeing out the door of your tent???”
KID: “Yes, I gotta GO and I can’t find my flashlight.”
ME: ” Do you realize you are just uphill of your father’s ear? Do you want to have to deal with him when he wakes up with pee running into his ear?”
KID: “But I can’t turn it off now that I’ve started.”
Man, that makes me mad. Why in the world do people get dogs IF THEY CAN’T KEEP UP with the responsibility? If it were up to me, I’d search out every person who has abandoned a dog, stick a leash on them and tie them to a pole in the most public place possible with a note attached that reads, “Hello. I like to abandon dogs. But I’m nice and friendly. Please take me in.”
That poor little dog. I’m glad you found him and took him to the shelter!
Man, that makes me mad. Why in the world do people get dogs IF THEY CAN’T KEEP UP with the responsibility? If it were up to me, I’d search out every person who has abandoned a dog, stick a leash on them and tie them to a pole in the most public place possible with a note attached that reads, “Hello. I like to abandon dogs. But I’m nice and friendly. Please take me in.”
That poor little dog. I’m glad you found him and took him to the shelter!
wish you would have brought him to my house! I’m ready for #3!