Winter's Biting Again, Plus a Camper Memory

Above is how it looked here when we got up this morning ... a trace of snow, very cold, a blustery northeast wind (with clouds going south and precipitation moving east), and high humidity (NOAA page said 100 per cent!). We haven't had any more snow today, but maybe more tonight and tomorrow. I wonder if they'll cancel school, as it's supposed to be so cold with -1 wind chill in the morning. It's been hard to keep the house warm today, with the cold wind blowing. Heaters on, sitting with afghans on lap, hot rice pack laying on top of my boots to warm my feet, eating, eating, eating, making hot drinks, such as this cup of French vanilla cappuccino ...

Fixing something hot to drink, suddenly made me remember a certain time we camped in the trailer in the wintertime, the only time we ever did so. Here are a couple of pictures from a long time ago of our back yard at home, which shows our little camper that Dad made. Yes, he MADE that camper.

It had two bunks in the front, a closet, a tiny heating stove, a kitchenette, and a table with seats that folded down in the back which converted to a full bed, with storage shelves above that. Usually, we took it to the mountains in Colorado or New Mexico for about a week each summer. And yes, that was some pretty close quarters, though everything worked pretty well, actually. And in the summer, we were out doing stuff all day, or sitting outside, so the camper being small didn't bother us.

Then one time when I was around junior high age, we went out to Colorado and stayed over Thanksgiving. I "think" (because my brain is now fried from stress and I can't remember anything for sure!) it was just after my brother started going to college out there and he came out and visited us in the camper, OR ... it was just before that, and we all four were in the camper. But I do remember my folks picking me up from school in the middle of the day from the junior high school, with the camper behind the car and ready to go, and off we went to Colorado.

We stayed at a KOA campground north of Pueblo, and I remember it got cold and snowy and pretty much stayed that way the whole time we were there. It was only two or three days perhaps? But it seemed a long, long time when we were "stuck" in that tiny camper with cold, snowy weather all around. I also remember there was some guy staying at the campground in a TENT in that weather.

So the thing I remembered was, I drank A LOT of something we had back then called "Cup-O-Soup," instant soup powder packets that you emptied into a cup or mug, and added hot water. We had chicken noodle and tomato. I had a pretty steady diet of that during those few days, just to help stay warm! Don't know if they even have "Cup-O-Soup" anymore, maybe they do, but when it gets cold, I still like having something HOT to drink, whether it be soup, hot cocoa, coffee, hot chocolate, or French vanilla cappuccino!