Tent Living

For the last few weeks I have been really busy going through my household things trying to down-size, so that I can manage housework a lot quicker. I was going to have a shabby-sale outside in this hot, dry weather, so I began storing a lot of it in the gazebo-tent that was purchased from Cosco. I think my family thought it was time for me to progress from the primitive sheet tents I have been using, to more modern camping!

The tent windows make it nice and breezy and cool inside, so I decided to host the Ladies Bible Class in it for the next few weeks.

Pastries and sandwiches were served with two different flavored teas.

The sandwiches were delicious, made from fresh-off-the-vine tomatoes and cucumbers, as well as meat and cheese, on bread made with unbleached flour. I used the cardboard fruit baskets which I saved, for serving dishes.

Take a look at what was used for the individual plates to hold sandwiches and pastries: the little berry baskets from a farm fruit-stand.

The nice thing about led-lites is that they can be put inside of a jar on the table. The day began rather over-cast and dark, so I enjoyed these lights during the Ladies Bible Class.

Through the tent window you can see the maple leaves are drying and falling from the huge trees in the front yard. The weather is very hot and there has not been much rain.

The ladies enjoyed sitting in the tent "parlor"

Half of the tent is created into a bedroom, where anyone in the family can take a rest or even spend the night. The roof of the tent can be removed so that I can look at the stars at night. What an experience that is! At the foot of the cot is the shawl crocheted by a friend, Anita Crane, whom I met when i first began publishing on the web.

The picnic basket came from Target and has an insulated food section that serves as a cooler for the refrigerated food items.

What about these duct tape slippers? My grandchildren decided to make them with paper and duct tape to wear in the tent so they could leave their shoes outside.

Those are led-light lanterns on the tables, which provide very nice light in the evenings.

The garden provided some fresh flowers for the tables. I like these particularly because they grow roots in the water and can be re-planted and multiplied.

Notice the shawl on the back of the children's chair, made by one of my readers.

The rugs, old cups and worn household things were being stored in the tent for a future sale.

Another look at the led-light candle lantern.

There is a place to hook a lantern on the ceiling of the tent. I turned a led tea light upside down in this candle chandelier, to point the light into the room.

The chandelier hangs from a handy hook on the tent roof.

I am blogging from my new quarters in the tent. I feel like I have left home, but you can see how close I am to the front porch. That is how brave I am with my glamping.

Notice the electric chord coming from the front door...

....that is for the electric porcelin tea kettle, above, to heat water in. You cannot make tea in it because it is designed to heat water only, to pour over the tea bag in the tea pot.

Someone brought me this lovely lavender rose from her garden.

I said all that, to say this:

Getting these things out of the house has certainly created more space for me, and I am enjoying not walking through aisles of boxes and piles of things in the hall, but...all that shabby stuff looks so good in the tent. Forget the sale. I think I will just keep it.

I have seen magazines about coastal living, log-cabin living, apartment living, motor home and camper living. Maybe I will see one about tent-living.

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