I haven’t posted anything to my blog in the past day, because I had a really bad day yesterday.

I figured it not best to belabor all the things that went wrong yesterday. Plus I was tired from work, hot and sweaty and did not feel like speeding a bunch of time blogging.

• I started out the morning burning my eggs that I was cooking.
• I go to clock in at nine and I’m having trouble getting the website to load
• My work laptop battery was totally dead and the sun was hazy so the low voltage relay kept tripping and I had to reset it
• I did make it through the day and necessary work got done but itwas frustrating and nerve racking
• With the heat coming and my desire to wash off I decided to get ice at the Wardsboro General Store and then go for a swim at Grout Pond
• I get to the Wardsboro General Store and there was a big sign – no ice available
• I drive down to Danbury VT and the 711 store there is out of ice
• Big construction project there with delays
• Pulling out into traffic I come very close to slamming into another car on the unfamiliar road
• I go to Family Dollar in Wardsboro 15 miles out of the way, they don’t sell ice
• I get two bags of ice at Shaws but I don’t realize how big they are until I’ve paid $8.
• I have too much ice, end up dumping out one of the blocks I brought from home
• Come back via Somerset Road which I’ve been avoiding because it’s so washboarded
• Because I’m so far south, it’s no longer worth while to go to Grout Pond
• I get back to camp, still hot and sweaty, decide to head back to the little brook behind camp
• I brought my crocks figuring I could at least wash off my dirty shoes but find a big enough hole to go all the way in doing some skinny dipping as I left my bathing suit at camp
• I get back to camp and start cooking beef and refried beans
• When I put the refried beans on the store the mixture of the water and grease in the can of beans explodes into a giant fire ball, burning a big hole in one of the screen doors in my almost brand new tent, burning my arm, setting the table on fire briefly and my burned a hole in my t shirt
• The burns were only first degree burns but they hurt like a mother trucker – at first I was concerned that I might wake up to blisters all over my arm but it just was very red and sore
• I am very upset to see my new tent destroyed, although based on the location of the hole, I believe I can sew and overlay a piece of soft window screen from the hardware store and get a tight enough fit to keep out the bugs
• The tent was only $120 including tax but I do think I can repair it adequately to keep out the bugs even if it ain’t perfectly pretty.
• In some ways the location was in a pretty good place as I have the solid sides of tent where I can sew in the replacement screen
• But that said, I’m still quite upset about it all
• I ended up covering the hole with a tarp for now and when I get home I’ll fix it
• It could have been worse, the propane exploded or even just the burns on my arm more severe and ending up in the burn unit
• I soaked my arm for a while in the river today and it’s feeling better
• I have a plan to patch the tent and think I can get materials locally and sew it or if necessary online
• I’ve learned my lesson with grease and water, if this happened at home I would have burned down my apartment or at least did serious damage to the kitchen – it was that big of a fire ball
• I’m just so disappointed on what a day of mess up it became but nothing that serious I guess

So that was my Tuesday and why I didn’t post much yesterday. Sometimes it’s better to just say nothing.

As the nurse office in my elementary school said on a sign: “If it’s not fatal, it’s not serious.”