okay i was thinking about camping and different i people's ideas about it
um-hum
we've even seen people with these campers and they got the big old antennas up so they can watch their TV when they're going but that's not
right or the satellite dish
yeah a satellite dish
on top of those recreational vehicles
oh golly that's not the kind we do do you go camping
yeah we have a little bit and we've just gotten one of those little tents that we throw out on the ground and that's what we camp in so we kind of rough it
well so do we in fact when we first got married we would try to take these trips to Minnesota to see his family
um-hum
and we didn't have a tent or any camping supplies so we'd sleep on those picnic tables at roadside parks i mean i know it's dangerous i wouldn't do it now but we did
oh no
and one time we went to Yellowstone and we were doing the same thing we couldn't find a place to camp and so we were
on top of a picnic table with our our sleeping bags i guess
and this ranger comes up with this light shines it on us and said that we're just bear bait out there we had our food you know
oh uh-huh
and told us to get inside our car
gosh bear bait
bear bait
that would make me nervous
yeah
have you done any camping around here
yeah we've got some land at Holly Lake outside of Tyler
uh-huh
and go up there fairly often
sometimes we get a lot of people together to do it
yeah that sounds fun
and we've done things like when when it's kind of cold we take extension cords and we've all brought heaters in our tents
and in the summer same thing we get our extension cords running from all these tents but we've got the fans going
right
so we're not roughing it too much and we have taken TVs out there for the kids
yeah
yeah
and they've got their electrical hookups
so it's not so bad
yeah do you go on long like a week at a time or just weekends
i think the longest we've stayed out there is like five days and they even they had a library at one time out there
uh-huh
oh
so that's really not roughing it so much but
yeah
we have gone on trips we've bathed in streams
uh-huh
that's kind of different
yeah
i like the campgrounds that have a nice shower
and a pool to go to that would be nice
uh-huh yeah we've uh we camped at the DeGray State Park in Arkansas
in the fall and there was nobody else hardly around and it was just really nice
that time of year we had taken our electric blanket too just in case it was unbearable but we didn't need it
well my husband has even camped at Lake Lavon with one of his friends he just decided to take the kids out there
oh really
yeah
i mean it's not very many miles from our house at all
but they had the time of their lives you know
oh yeah
had the boat just pulled up right by the tents
uh-huh
it wasn't bad
that sounds nice
yeah and we've taken our tents though loaded them up in car carrier
and decided we were going to tent most of the way and it ended up when it came time for us to pull in for the night
we'd take a vote and most of the time we decided we wanted to stay in a hotel
yeah
instead of getting out all that stuff you know
yeah it's a lot of work to set up just for one night
yeah then you have to get up the next day and move it on
right
huh-uh
but we're set now we've got cook stoves and we've got our bug light
and everybody's got their sleeping bags we got air mattresses we decided that was easier than cots and more comfortable
yeah those are nice we have one of those too uh-huh
yeah those double ones
pretty good we're on our third one i think somehow
yeah how do you blow yours up
we've got an electric pump that hooks into the cigarette lighter
oh we we were looking at those in a magazine last time we went we took our vacuum cleaner with us
i didn't know you could do that
and yeah you can if you can reverse the nozzle on your vacuum cleaner and it blows air out instead of sucking it in and you can
yeah
fill them up that way but it something that's smaller would be a lot more convenient
no joke i hope you didn't have a big vacuum cleaner
no uh-huh we have a my husband and i we have a pickup truck so there's plenty of room to hold things
yeah now we've used a hair dryer before
uh-huh
but i put it on hot and also melted it
oh no
i found that you don't do that
yeah
i didn't realize it would melt so easily
oh
i don't know
we take we take our dog camping she likes
to go out and stay in the woods sleep she sleeps in the tent with us
yeah
it's fun
i don't like it when there's mosquitoes so bad
oh me either
and then one night we were camping and it came just a torrential downpour we had the steaks on the grill
these people were with us and it
i mean everything was sopping wet inside the tent it was just that bad you know
oh no
and we decided we'd just go across the road to the office and see if we could rent anything
uh-huh
so i got a condo with a jacuzzi and it was wonderful yeah
oh boy
that was lucky
yeah it was
we've been lucky we've never really been rained on the few times we've gone
it's horrible
oh i bet it when we were younger when i was a kid we camped in Virginia and
we had one of those little pop up tents which is really nice because it kind of gets you off the ground
but it seemed like it rained every weekend for about a year the year we we were really into camping
you mean that you put on a truck or what
uh no it's a little trailer you pull behind your car and uh
oh yeah yeah
you know you the lid pops off the little tent comes up the top and
it had two double beds in it
how many weeks have you been doing these calls
oh since the beginning
i guess it's been two or three weeks
i think this must be into my third week too
so do you work for TI
uh well i work as a temporary in the Speech Lab
in a speech lab
uh-huh where they're doing this program
the voice recognition program
and what exactly are they going to do
oh they turn them over to somebody and they're going to
i guess they're going to try to teach computers how to recognize voices and search for specific words and stuff
so any voice no matter what the
speech pattern or the dialect or anything
right yeah
hum
i wonder if these are going to be speaking
the computers
i don't know
i type up the tapes of what people talked about
oh that's kind of neat
yeah it's sort of interesting
do you put all the uh-hums in here on everything too
uh-huh everything like that all the little stutters and everything
what do you write for stutter
duh duh
oh like if they say i i we just type it in like that
uh-huh
well i guess that's it for camping huh
i guess so unless you want to talk about stakes what size stakes to put in
you need metal instead of plastic
yeah
and you make sure that you keep up with them for the next time we got one of those kind that have got the
yeah
oh what is it
they're plastic and they've got the elastic on the inside of the poles and you just put them together and it's a dome tent
oh uh-huh that's what we have too yeah that's what ours is
that's good isn't it
yeah yeah they pop up pretty fast
yeah
but
have you ever camped on sand
um no
that can be a mess we camped at the beach one time and that was sort of miserable
you just couldn't everywhere you went there was sand you couldn't even when you're eating it it was in your bed
i've done it in a shelter
uh-huh
it was in Padre Island and in a truck of course not but not in a tent
oh
uh-huh
oh well that's about all i know to okay uh-huh bye
okay well it's good talking to you bye
