Not a very busy week this, I've still got the camper unfolded in the driveway drying out from our wet camping trip, and cleaning it up a bit. I got some more of that mildew stain remover that I used on the canvas last year, and also got some waterproofing spray because I bet that the mildew killer I used last year is why water leaked through the canvas onto my pillow twice this year. Nothing like trying to sleep on a wet pillow. So cleaning up the canvas and waterproofing it, plus I've discovered that they sell a plastic tape with the RV curtain hangers riveted into it on Amazon so I could replace the old cracked and broken ones with new. I'd need to pick out some new fabric for the new curtains and add some blackout fabric, but then I could sew the hanger tape onto it and voila. Maybe a winter project. 

Speaking of projects, summer is officially over because I started draining the pool once we were home from camping. The water was still pretty clean but also absolutely freezing. I've got it emptied and turned upside down on all the outdoor furniture to dry. 

Saturday was the annual Wiessner chili cookoff, which we haven't had the best luck with of late (see 10/8/23). Since last year Beth spilled the chili all over, this year I got to do it. Beth made what she was calling "pantry chili," because she just threw everything together from things she already had in the pantry, or "panic chili," since she hadn't made any kind of plan and was just throwing it together from whatever she could find. The chili seemed to come together nicely though, smelled good, tasted good, and we had it all loaded into the Instant Pot for the trip to Michigan. Missy drove up from Muncie to come with us, and we left around 5:00 or so. When we got there, I got out to unload the chili, and the pot rotated out of the lid when I turned, the full pot fell to the road, and everything dumped out. You could see a big steaming pile of chili in the road from Ric's backyard. So a big chili fail once again. She would have won, too....