Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - Candy Cane RV Park, Steelville MO
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Killdeer nest, Site 4, Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO, May 11, 2010
What's a poor mother to do?
You find a good mate, carefully pick a site, sculpt a nice nest amongst those hard old crushed rocks, lay 4 eggs coordinated to match the rocks, array the eggs just so with the pointy ends down and in, keep them nice and warm day and night rain or shine.
Then some jerk nearly steps in the nest.
And has the gall to come back later with a camera 'cause he thinks the whole thing is a work of art.
Sheesh man - it's a freakin' NEST! What's a poor mother to do? Freak OUT!
Night camp
Site 4 - Candy Cane RV Park & Campground, Steelville MO
- Candy Cane RV Park & Campground, 11 Highway M, Steelville MO 65565 (573) 755-2889
- Email bill@candycanervpark.com
- Located on MO Route 8, west of Steelville MO, is a private park with 30 pullthrough campsites with 30/50 AMP electric, water and some with sewer.
- There is reasonably good Verizon cell phone and weak EVDO service
- Find the Candy Cane RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
Sell Them Down the River
Brown had in his camp a fine-looking Negro, who said he had run away from his master in Platte County, Missouri, because the man was going to sell him and his wife to a dealer who would take them south to the Louisiana sugar plantations. The average Missouri Negro looked upon being sold south as one or two degrees worse than being sent straight to hell. This viewpoint was fostered by the masters, who always threatened, when things went wrong, to sell them down the river. ...