November 12, 2026-Battle of the Ravine Weekend 2026

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• Campbell and Keaton left this morning as I was reading to Whitman. I mostly read to Whitman, but for a few minutes I had clothes to put in the dryer and brownies to take out of the oven so he had to read a bit himself. He didn't mind plus it helped keep him awake. I must have forgotten to give Whitman a bedtime last night because Robby said that he was up pretty late last night.
• While the girls were at work, Whitman plugged along on his school work. He did most things by lunch and had a few more after lunch to do. I made another dessert for this weekend, and then I took a walk for a bit. I was finishing one book so I could start on another on the way here. 
• After my shower, Whitman and I left around 1:15. We had a time getting here. Whitman was asleep for most of it though. The boy has not taken a nap in about 10 years, but he sure took one today on the ride down here. 
• I knew that I had a mystery shop on the way to Arkadelphia, and I knew that it was in Malvern. I assumed that it was at our normal spot and since Robby hadn't answered my text, I just headed there. He didn't answer my text because my phone kind of stopped working-he wasn't able to track me nor were his text going through to me. He did eventually call to check in and after turning my phone off and back on, we were back up and running. He did call at the right time though because I was just about to pass my stop.
• We did that without a problem, but my next problem was the book I started listening to. It just started to sound like it was a sequel, and I like to listen to things in the right order. I asked Whitman to do some research, but he wasn't able to find anything out. (When I did get here, I was able to find out that I was indeed listening to a sequel, but I really had to do some deep diving to figure that out-most books on the library website are labeled if they are the second or third book, but this one was not.)
• The whole way here, I had thought that the car sounded windier than usual, and I had even tried to roll up the windows. It was strange, but we had some work done on it lately, and there was a new rattle, so I just through it was something related to that. However, when I got off at Caddo, I could tell I was dragging or scraping something. I was already stopping at the gas station there, so I called Robby.
• He gave me the all clear to just come on to the campsite. Once here, he was able to fix the problem-the plastic under thing in front of the tire was flapping and dragging some. He zip tied that baby, and hopefully it will hold.
• We then went to work setting up lights, so many lights, and tents and chairs, so many chairs at the Wilson's campsite. We are reading for Saturday and hope that the cold weather doesn't scare off the kids. The Wilsons arrived later in the evening, and once they got all set up Robby made quesadillas for supper. 
• We have already booked our spots for next year-there was someone already in our normal spot so we had to find new sites while on our walk tonight. Tomorrow it is going to be cold, so maybe the sun will be out and keep us warm at least some of the day.