Outdoor DIY Wine Cooler Idea

Found this idea on a blog and thought it was a pretty cool idea. Obviously this wouldn't work with weekend camping at a park as I think they may frown upon you customizing your table. This should be how every picnic table is made to start with. Who needs that middle board anyways? Aren't cold drinks always a better idea?

Here is the link to the blog

For a creative, convenient way to serve and chill wine at your next outdoor party, consider the wine gutter! This picnic table, designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, features a built-in galvanized steel gutter down the center of the table. Fill with ice and you have a bona fide wine cooler!

This would also work perfectly well for beer and any other beverage you'd like to keep cool on a warm day. If you're not the DIY kind, you can buy a gutter picnic table starting around $150.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

2012 has begun...

So it's almost been a year since I last posted something on here.. a year that has been crazy for sure. Got a lot of camping done this year, tried some new places including New Hampshire which was beautiful but still very cold in May in the mountains.. I guess that is what outlet shopping is for, the whole reason I actually went :)

As for this year I am changing some things up a little bit and hope to try some new places that I haven't been. I have been looking for years at going to St Lawrence National Park and boating to the island to stay for the weekend with the bare minimum with me. The islands just look so beautiful and as most know I LOVE the Thousand Islands area, especially around Canada Day weekend when you can sit and just watch all the amazing boats going by and hear the cigarette boats coming from miles away..one of my favorite sounds in the world!

St Lawrence National Park

The other place I want to try which my aunt had mentioned to me when I was back in high school and I look at it every year is Frotenac Provincial Park. Here is the link to the campsites that you have to hike or portage into with the pictures available to see under each cluster heading.

Frotenac Provincial Park

I also just looked at Ivy Lea and they have moved the booking to Feb, 28 instead of March 1st so I will be on the phone at 8:15am that day booking a good site and I just need to decide when to go....

On another note.. the new camping gear for this season should be hitting the stores soon. I did find myself creeping into the camping section at Canadian Tire on Saturday but as soon as I got to the aisle I had to turn back...way too much of a tease this far away!

Here are some pics from North Conway, New Hampshire..it was beautiful and there are lots of places to hike within a short drive. If staying and wanting to be in town stay at Saco River Campground, you can literally walk to the shops yet feel so far away and in tune with nature when you are there.