June means Summer is here...and so is another Toppler!

[jaxnsmom]

The fruit machine is sending Helen2 to Camp Amly! Go pick out a bunk for yourself :)

[Helen]

Am running to grab the top bunk by the window. Great way to sneak out to steal s'mores, etc from the other cabins.

[Lynn]

Yeah, I've never been to a summer camp ..... not really a thing in the UK

[Sarah]

Lynn wrote: "Yeah, I've never been to a summer camp ..... not really a thing in the UK"

Me neither Lynn. The closest I ever came I suppose was going camping with the Scouts!

[Lisa]

Sarah wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Yeah, I've never been to a summer camp ..... not really a thing in the UK"

Me neither Lynn. The closest I ever came I suppose was going camping with the Scouts!"

I haven't either. I wonder if the UK will ever introduce summer camps? It could be a good idea.

[Lynn]

Sarah wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Yeah, I've never been to a summer camp ..... not really a thing in the UK"

Me neither Lynn. The closest I ever came I suppose was going camping with the Scouts!"

Ah yes, I did go camping with Guides but as you said not really the same.

[Naomi]

I would like to join.

[Debra]

This will be the first time my sister and I aren't on the same team. Divide and conquer, eh?

[jaxnsmom]

Naomi wrote: "I would like to join."

Naomi - head on over to Camp Amly and grab a bunk and some s'mores!

[jaxnsmom]

Debra wrote: "This will be the first time my sister and I aren't on the same team. Divide and conquer, eh?"

The fruit machine must have thought you two would cause too much trouble if you were in one camp. LOL

[Cathie]

Hey, how come Happy Campers aren't getting any of the newbies? Are we just so awesome already we don't need anyone else?

[jaxnsmom]

It looks like the fruit machine is afraid to send anyone else into that pit. Haha!

[Cathie]

The pit of perpetual bliss :-)

[Ava Catherine]

Debra wrote: "This will be the first time my sister and I aren't on the same team. Divide and conquer, eh?"

Debra, I am thrilled that you and I are finally on the same team!!!! Hooray!!! Sorry about Almeta though. : ( We can send her some goodies and messages (smoke signals). lol

Hope the boys from the next camp over don't pull a panty raid! Haha!!!

[Janice, Moderator]

Cathie wrote: "Hey, how come Happy Campers aren't getting any of the newbies? Are we just so awesome already we don't need anyone else?"

I was just going to ask the same thing! I think that fruit machine is broken. Someone must have decided to make yuck-a-futz in it for a camp party.

[Lynn]

To make a what?!? lol

[Sarah]

Lynn wrote: "To make a what?!? lol"

My thoughts exactly! I looked it up on the internet and it appears it might have more than one meaning!

[Cathie]

I'm sure Janice meant the drink reference and not the other one!! (Although throwing in a useless old boyfriend would muck up the machine too, lol)

[Janice, Moderator]

You actually found a reference on Google? I wasn't even sure if I was spelling it correctly, and I can't find it using the spelling I did.

Yuck-a-futz (digging back to fuzzy hazy days in my misguided youth) was a concoction of mixed fruits and alcohol. Lethal!

Hmmm, I'm beginning to sound like a bit of a sot. Honest! I don't drink that much. I recently joined a wine group and have a couple of glasses each Thursday night with them.

[Kristin]

I'm in, my kids are actually at camps that week!!! So may have more time to read! Put me in a camp please!

[Naomi]

Yuck-a-futz aka hairy buffalo, jungle juice

[Cathie]

Naomi knows her drinks! :-)

[jaxnsmom]

Kristin wrote: "I'm in, my kids are actually at camps that week!!! So may have more time to read! Put me in a camp please!"

What great timing! I had Marnie help me, and it looks like you're going to Camp Happy. I hope your liver's in good shape!!

[Cathie]

Yea Kristin!!~ You'll find us at the campfire, singing songs and talking late unto the night!

Thanks Jaxnsmom!!

[jaxnsmom]

CHECK MESSAGE 1

[Ava Catherine]

Jaxnsmom, I love the tasks! You have come up with some winners! ; )

[jaxnsmom]

There are more to come :)

[Ava Catherine]

I think I hear Carly Simon singing "Anticipation." lol

Great job, J'mom! ; )

[Janice, Moderator]

ooooh, I love the tasks! Getting out my spreadsheets.

[Cathie]

Does scary mean a horror genre novel or could it be a true crime horrific novel such as In Cold Blood ?

[Cathie]

Never mind...I can do the movie night category for that one...but still, I'd like to know the answer in case it is yes and there are other horrific stories out there not of the horror genre that I might read?

[Debra]

One day, at band camp.... (snicker). And, yes, I played the flute!

Band camp, was hell, btw. No fun camp activities, just marching, marching, marching and taking salt pills so we didn't faint from heat stroke. Horrific!

[Lisa]

Great tasks! Can't wait to begin.

[Debra]

jaxnsmom wrote: "ssshhhh...Almeta is Camp Jingalo's secret weapon. She will sneak into the other camps and learn their secrets, while helping herself to any goodies :)"

Don't forget, I know all my sister's tricks!

[Debra]

Cathie wrote: "Normal is a setting on the dryer, I think."

LOL, I like that description. I'm anything but "normal."

[Debra]

I was a Kiddie Camp counselor for the YMCA for several summers. We didn't go away anywhere; the parents dropped off the 4-6 year olds at a local park, so we could be driven crazy for 6 hours M-F! I led all the singing songs like Little Bunny Fu-Fu and Kumbaya! We did arts and crafts and ate bag lunches, played Duck,Duck,Goose and climbed the jungle-jims and swung on the swings. Not a bad job for a teenager with some energy to chase kids around.

[Sarah]

Great to see the tasks we will be doing! Have started looking through my books to see which ones qualify.

[Debra]

jaxnsmom wrote: "Debra wrote: "This will be the first time my sister and I aren't on the same team. Divide and conquer, eh?"

The fruit machine must have thought you two would cause too much trouble if you were in..."

We can drum up a bit of trouble together. Last weekend we were naughty and I paid for it the day after. That plum wine and the laughs was worth it, tho.

[Lisa]

I have a question about the Camp Nicknames task. I have a book, a modern retelling of 'Phantom of the Opera', that was first published in 2006 under a pen name. However, the edition I have is a revised edition from 2012 which is published under the authors real name, although it does say 'writing as ....' in brackets under the authors name. Will this book qualify for this task?

[Sarah]

I have a question too! Regarding the Talent Show task. I was thinking about reading Remix which has a musician from a band in it but I wondered how much the book had to be about music etc or whether just having a character who is a musician is enough? Will this qualify?

[Cathie]

OMGawd Debra ~ Band camp!! I played flute as well :-) Thanks for the memories and smiles :-)

Also the Day Camp posting. Me too :-)

Also, i sang Little Rabbit FooFoo until i was blue in the face to my youngest. It was the only way he would get to sleep, in the car, at 2 am, every morning!!

[Alexandra]

The tasks sound good. I´ll get to work pacing through my books and TBR...

[Debra]

Cathie wrote: "OMGawd Debra ~ Band camp!! I played flute as well :-) Thanks for the memories and smiles :-)

Also the Day Camp posting. Me too :-)

Also, i sang Little Rabbit FooFoo until i was blue in the face..."

Too funny, Cathie! Fellow flute players unite!

[Kristin]

Yeah! Camp Happy, my liver is in training! My Mom is in Campy Amly, let the trash talking begin!!!!!

[Ava Catherine]

Sarah wrote: "Great to see the tasks we will be doing! Have started looking through my books to see which ones qualify."

It will be time to make little stacks of books next. (golphering) Oh, how I love golphering! My Mr. not so much! lol

[Cathie]

Yeah Kristin! Let the training begin :-)

Woohoo! Another smut talker...(we will keep her inebriated on night crawls so the mouth doesn't give us away :-)

[Alexandra]

Connie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Great to see the tasks we will be doing! Have started looking through my books to see which ones qualify."

It will be time to make little stacks of books next. (golphering) Oh, how ..."

What is golphering? Sounds interesting...

[Alexandra]

Alexandra wrote: "Connie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Great to see the tasks we will be doing! Have started looking through my books to see which ones qualify."

It will be time to make little stacks of books next. (golphe..."

I think I figured it out by myself, it´s from "golpher", right? I think we have a similar expression which would be translated as "hamstering".
Funny, I thought at first golphering might have to do with alcohol as summer camp (never been to one) seems to have a lot to do with enjoying nice drinks - very sympathetic :-).

[jaxnsmom]

Cathie wrote: "Never mind...I can do the movie night category for that one...but still, I'd like to know the answer in case it is yes and there are other horrific stories out there not of the horror genre that I ..."

Scary doesn't have to be in the horror genre. In Cold Blood would certainly qualify! Just imagine - would you tell it around a campfire to scare others?

[jaxnsmom]

Debra wrote: "One day, at band camp.... (snicker). And, yes, I played the flute!

Band camp, was hell, btw. No fun camp activities, just marching, marching, marching and taking salt pills so we didn't faint fr..."

Does this mean we have a video to look forward to? ☺