T@B Diaries #3: Barton Park

The t@b trailer’s fourth voyage, third diary entry, and second father, son, and dog camping trip, this time to Barton Park on the Clackamas river . . .

  • during which frogs from a nearby pond sound off all night a noise not unlike the Australian didgeridoo, several of them, all resonating in different pitches;
  • during which Michael and Emerson get along pretty famously and the dog gets lots of attention and exercise;
  • during which Emerson feels bad on Sunday afternoon, sleeps for five hours in the middle of the day, wakes up hungry for hotdogs;
  • during which Emerson eats hotdogs for breakfast the next day;
  • during which Dad sits in a gigantic Adirondack;
  • during which we meet two former and favorite students working in the park, County employees, big kids, adults! Good on ya, Jacqui and Hailey! 
  • during which my son tells his uncle Dave that he loves him!  

 

Published by michaeljarmer

I'm a public high school English teacher, fiction writer, poet, and musician in Portland, Oregon

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