The saga of Chesapeake continues.....
CAN I GET A GD BREAK ? It's really getting to the point now where I'm starting to think that something is trying to tell me to stay the F inside, and give up trying to hang between April 1st and November 1st.
I figured that even though it's gonna be around 65° tonight with borderline humidity but still a nice breeze , that I can get one more night in the new RR before summers wrath returns to the upper bay and I'm driven back inside again. So I left the RR hung today , took off the CDT UQ & UQ and left my tarp skinned , but took my Burrow, pillow and TQ liner inside. Good Fingthing too! As 945 rolled around tonight and the wife + kid went to bed, I gathered my stuff and headed out to thoughts of yet another AMAZING nights sleep in my new favorite hammock. But NOOOOO, that wouldn't be dramatic enough now would it? That wouldn't add to my already comical and infamous horrible luck or give me yet another wild tale to share with my HF brethren would it??? So, headlamp on, Burrow in one hand, Gatorade in the other, I headed out to quickly stash the gear to do my nightly pre-hammock entrance spider check, and as the beam of my lamp hit the black netting of the 'Runner, I thought to myself " what the F is that? Now, let me stiop here for a quick second to describe my thoughts....I was expecting to have at least a few spiders on the suspension or hanging from the skinned tarp.When I didn't initially see any at first as I walked the 20' from door to hammock i tbought, " WOW! I finally got lucky for a change! " ... " keeping the tarp skinned just might be the trick to giving them less places to hang from " . Now let me continue .... As I got close enough for my light to shine brightly on the net and into the hqmmock, I realized that my black bug net, wasn't so black anymore. My next thought was " hmm, this looks like the Dream Hammock in the for sale section of HF, the one made with RSBTR printed flectarn netting , but the body has a U.S. Woodland camo-ish look inside now and not plain green ... What the hell?? . " And then I got close enough to see what was making this odd color combination..... BIRD $#!+ !!!! There were brown patches of bird$#!+ ALL OVER the outside of the net and inside on the hammock body! Leaving the tarp skinned had apparently given a small flock of something a place to perch then drip S down onto/into my brand freakn new hammock! It was everywhere! So, yeah good thing I took the Burrow and pillow inside hu? I just can win can I ? Luckily, I have a tube of Lysol wipes, so I got to work and by the light of my headlamp, began to cleanup bird carp at 10:00 tonight. One positive note : I only found a few small whispy webs and tiny spiders smaller than a pencil eraser. But as I wiped and scrubbed and cussed, I realized that I had just treated the has and netting with Sawyer's Permethrin , now I was scrubbing it off most likely. So after 15 mins and lots of wipes, I was finally able to get in to get situated. Come on , really??? Now it's nasty bird ****?? Is it even possible to get any worse? NM, I better not say that because the last time I did........looks like it's either skin the tarp and get **** on or pitch it and get 1000 spiders trying to catch me in a web 'o death as I get up to pee at 3am. I honestly can't win can I ??? EVER!!!!!
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Originally Posted by TrailSlug
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