essential camping preparations
Typically, I'm up late the night before camping cooking something or other. Tonight isn't even the night before this year's expedition (that'd be tomorrow night) but I still delayed bedtime for some very important food production: I had to get the marshmallows made, so we can have our home-made s'mores! I've been planning to bring a batch camping ever since I made that first one back in the winter, and while I did fail to make a single batch in between—despite best intentions to the contrary—I was determined to delay no longer.
So now they're done, and it turned out there was a bit of delay; from the first plan to do the thing on Tuesday (foiled by a lack of vanilla extract in the house) all the way up until 8:30 or so, when Harvey finally went to sleep (in my bed; it was a tough day in some respects so I don't begrudge him the chance to finally relax in comfort).
Now all I have to do to be ready to go Saturday morning is pack, do some grocery shopping, and cook all the other food we're going to need for the trip. Good thing I'm working this week, or I'd spend all day tomorrow running around in a panic. This way my panic will be confined to six or seven short hours!