You know you’ve had this happen to you…  Someone hijacked a great thread on a FB status.. You’re going along with others posting comment after comment and it’s getting funnier and funnier by the minute and then a FB pirate comes along and HIJACKS the thread. Out of middle of nowhere, they post a comment that is TOTALLY off thread and it makes the fun come to a screeching halt faster than crush test dummies hitting a brick wall!  BAM!!!  Then, the silence gets as bad as... Read Full Story

K..  So this will be the first of (hopefully) many posts regarding Facebook Faux Pas..  You know..  Those tweets, those posts that once there… set in text.. you think twice about whether or not you really should have posted.  As you hold your finger over the left mouse button (or I guess the right mouse button [...] Read Full Story

Campalooza ‘09 is rapidly approaching and the Charles’ household is fast and furious in our planning.  Like Santa and the elves preparing for Christmas we have our lists and are checking them twice (and thrice and four times and.. well you get the picture)  14 days of living off the grid!  WOO HOO!!  The way the [...] Read Full Story

So I hit an unbelievable creative roadblock with this year’s invitations, but I still fulfilled my duties by getting out a semi-informative invite to the funnest party east of the Mississippi…  Take a look below..  (It’s a really crappy scanned version of the invite and the cut out T-shirt paper that was included to order your reunion t-shirts)   So I was surfing the wild wild Internet whenever I came over the picture of the rusted out truck.  My first thoughts were ‘... Read Full Story

Ah, I’m finally getting around to blogging about camping trip # 5 for the season…  Our first outing to Jellystone after the pool was open!  The weather was AWESOME  (one rainshower in the middle of the night on Saturday that DRENCHED everything we left out)! Here are some pics.. Hamlet Chillin' on the bed   Sara hanging some towels from swimming.One of the best things to bring with you camping.. A drying rack..   Opposite side of the campsite   The girls out of the pool... ... Read Full Story

Camping Trip #4 for the Season I think this trip will be fondly remembered by our friends Amy, Mark and their son Ethan traveling up from DC in the motorhome to spend an awesome fun weekend in the wild woods of western PA..  It’ll also be hard to forget Rusty and the boys, Al & John, and the snake that decided to make his appearance 2 hours before our departure from a 5 day getaway.  Here are some highlights from the trip! The empty Firepit! The Firepit all cleaned out from the... Read Full Story

So before we trekked off for camping trip number 4 for the season,  Sara and I made some ‘additions’ to the camper..  Sara started with a little storage bag compartment to hang on the outside of the bathroom in the trailer and some cozies (sp?) for the Mountain Pie irons and hot dog cookers.  That way whenever you put them back in the camper, you (or should I say ‘I’) don’t have to clean all of the soot off of the storage compartment walls.  The Girls watching Sa... Read Full Story

Boy, I should learn to keep my big mouth shut and trust the system of life.  Like something out Pleasantville, I was notified today that my CO2 tanks for my Soda Stream would be on my doorstep when I arrived home for our massive Memorial Day camping trip..  WOO HOO!!  Gotta love that Just-In-Time processing..  Now if only all of life could be this organized!!! Read Full Story

Dammit! No seriously.. I’m outta of CO2 in my first tank! I placed my first order for replacement carbonators but now I have to wait until they ship.. Uuugh! No seltzer water over Memorial Day camping trip.. double DAMMIT!! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edcharles.com%2FWordPress%2F%3Fp%3D759'; addthis_title = 'Soda+Stream+outta+Gas%26%238230%3B'; addthis_pub [...] Read Full Story

Camping Trip #3 for the season… Last weekend was the first weekend for the farm.  We had a wild working weekend to re-shingle the pavilion, collect wood for the summer season and just clean everything up for another fun wild camping season!  The girls had an amazing time and, as usual, I didn’t want to leave.  We got an amazing amount of stuff accomplished in a short amount of time.  The spring is flowing like crazy.  I roughly measured it running at 20 gallons a minute.  The lane... Read Full Story