Today, we set up our latest tent in the backyard. We’ve bought a Sierra Designs Lightning XT 1 one man tent to take one of the kids backpacking with us. It also allows one of us to go solo backpacking if we want, and I have a trip planned, hopefully later this month.

Ginger and I set it up this morning before Ginger went off with fellow Flickrite Rebbie for a girls’ day out. Once they’d gone, I re-set the tent and fixed a few problems we’d encountered, though the top of the fly at the back was still floppy. Having done that, I retrieved my pack, sleeping bag, and pad from the shed, tried the tent out for size, and took today’s picture.

The rest of the day was disappointingly unproductive. I spent a lot of time with Internet searches to try and see if there was any solution to the tent’s floppy flysheet and drew a blank. I then spent my time processing pictures and getting them ready to upload. Now I just need to finish that job and go to bed.

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