Getting home from camp was, as it always is, a relief. First thing I did was set up our tent in the back yard so it could be cleaned and dried out, and we could waterproof it. We waterproofed it as best we could, then it rained. It didn't stop raining for a week. The rain just kept coming. The other night the power flickered. Didn't cut out, but I knew the wind was blowing the power lines around pretty bad.
Then one morning, it wasn't raining. The tent had been pulled off the ground and thrown across the yard. Poles had been shredded, tent stakes bent as they were pulled from the ground.
So yea, we're getting a new tent. This one lasted us eleven years, chosen because it was the one that was there as we were on our way out to a camping trip (turns out we stayed in the cabin, others stayed in my new tent). It's put us through many outdoor excursions, but its time has come.
Oh well.
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