Pics from Camp

Great idea!

The wall hanging you're working on right now is fascinating - I was trying to guess who was who based on your descriptions.

I actually can relate to the way the drill foreman is feeling. HEs probably got a per/foot contract and nothing, NOTHING is as abad as running sand. You can get ahead unless you use caing drive and screw the overburden. The problem with bentonite is that it can selectively concentrate stuff unless the mix is reverse rotary.

Mame I have to tell you this. My idea of roughing it is a weekend at the Ritz Carlton.

But I think that you are really an amazing woman. I look at ice cubes and shiver.

weekends at any hotel (not excluding R/C) is that bedbugs are multiplying. Its cleaner to be where Mame is.

Where do the bed bugs come from? I have not ever had an experience with them in a hotel. Or anywhere for that matter. Is it too cold for them in the NWT?

Mame, I may try making your biscuits this weekend. Thank you for the recipe.

We sleep on 4" foamies so there aren't any bed bugs. I don't think they can live in foam.

Hope you like the biscuits, jes. They're quite moist for a biscuit due to the sour cream. We're having stew, salad, dumplings and pumpkin pies with whipped cream tonight.

Yeah, give us some recipes, Mame. We want to read how lucky those
guys are to have you cooking for them. I bet their wives will hear a thing
or two about your cooking when the guys get back home.

I have to agree with others who said that this is an incredible thread. We vicariously live through your adventures (from the comfort of our homes).

Good looking woman, good cook, not afraid to rough it......And, in Canada. What more could anyone ask for?

Really interesting thread. Nice to see one where everybody is happy and no arguments exist.

Well, I hate to burst your bubble, Intrepid, but apparently the new guy is a mysoginist... he won't deign to speak to me except to ask if there's coffee and to say "Thanks for the meal". He also doesn't like my buddy, the camp manager - he just grunts at him or ignores him altogether. So maybe he just doesn't like the camp help.

I made a delicious stew tonight (majority decision at first breakfast seating) and after his dinner he told the camp manager in a disparaging tone to tell the cook he doesn't "do canned soup", that he could cook that up himself on the drill. Mike said, "It's not canned - I watched her make it from scratch myself." "I don't care, I need something more substantial so tell her to cook me a big meal tomorrow."

Then he said if he didn't get a good meal he was going to get in his truck and go home.

Whoa.

Tomorrow I'm making sole but I think I'll save him a bowl of stew

Good drilling today... it got really warm though so we're all praying for freezing temps.

He must be an idiot Mame. Doesn't he know he should never hassle the person who can put boogers in his food?

Ha ha ha

I wouldn't do that, but I might make stew again next week. Everyone else loves it. Hey, majority rules, right?

Your'e right, Calam. I think it is Mame's evident willingness to take things as they are and find something good wherever she can that is so infectuous - and quite uplifting. We all sense it. I'm sure she has brought the same sunshine to the camp.

I really regret teasing her aboot her odd pronunciations. I'll probably get over it, but right now I feel bad aboot it.

Tell Mister Wigglesworm that the program is under assessment and will be reported about forthwith. Or soon.

Also, hang on Sloopy, Sloopy, hang on.

No, you're not regretting anything, you rascal. I'm glad though that
Mame was the center of pronunciation teasing, as it did take away the
attention from all German accent jokes.

memeber mame, we can always get another mudhog, geo, juggy, rotapper, sample crusher, or helper.They make plenty more.
The cook rules the camp. If Mr "sogynist" likes the center stage , maybe he can be replaced really easily.

I remember one time, out in the Aleutians doing concentrates, we stopped and sent a chopper back to some depot to get a couple pound bags of bisquit flour and big sections of spare ribs. Course it was during mosquito season and everybody was just goin nuts over everything.

You should be getting those "snowpool" skeeters by the time your ready to pack out.


IF the warmth is a problem, does that mean theyre drilling throuigh muskeg?

Yeah, you can't fool me with your crocodile tears! I know you're not regretting anything, georgeob1kanobe - and CJ, you are right to be grateful. I was the sacrificial lamb and I never really knew what he was talking aboot regarding the accent and all. I was thinking HE was talking funny, eh? I was just way too polite to point it out to him, even after being teased so mercilessly.

FM - Apparently this clown is the only driller they could come up with to replace the pot-head, crack addict that was here initially. He's reportedly an excellent driller; it's just his company manners that need some tweaking. I'm just tuning him out and concentrating on the others, who are delightful and funny.

Travis is turning 20 tomorrow so we're going to have a party. I'm baking a chocolate layer cake, we have 20 candles, birthday plates, balloons and streamers (ha ha). We have a card but no gift - can't think what to get this young fella. We're having his fave - steak and baked potatoes. I think it's nice just to be remembered. His boss, the foreman, is going to let him operate the cat as a b'day present

This is Trav:




And this is the latest wall hanging:

Yum!