5 Uses for an Indoor Tent

PEST FREE During a family vacation and faced with an unexpected storm, we decided to rent a small unfurnished cabin at a state park. As soon as we had our sleeping bags spread on the floor, our pillows fluffed, and the room dark, a million feet started crawling over our faces and legs. Oh, the horror when we switched on the lights.

Every conceivable, imaginable creature had crawled out of the woodwork. I had never seen so many bugs in one place. On top of that, we had several raccoons circling around the cabin.

Then I remembered our tent. Not wanting to sleep indoors or outdoors for that matter, we decided to set the tent up inside. Thankfully, it was one of those easy pop up dome tents that didn’t require stakes.

12’ fence? Pfft...

A friend moved to the shore with his wife who was from the hills. She wanted a garden so he bought two dump trucks of compost and two of soil for her. The deer love her efforts. He put up a 6’ fence which they jumped from a standing position. Next year he went to 12’ which only the bucks could jump. He would brag about her $200 cucumbers. At least deer don’t eat people.

No you can’t trust it at all.

You could have an 8-foot electrified fence and I still wouldn’t sleep peacefully in grizzly country, not with food in the tent.

You should see the electrified mini-fortresses beekeepers put up to protect their hives...drive by them one day, as tight and secure and orderly as an accountant’s office.

Next week it’s all a shambles, like a tornado hit it.

I posted the bit about the tiny little fence just to show how greatly the visitors underestimated the power of a grizzly. They will tear off the door of a parked, locked vehicle if there is something in there they smell and want.

Doesn’t take them much effort either...stick their giant claws in around the door seal and boom! They are eating your frito-lays.

That’s a nifty looking tent. We had something similar for back packing and a down sleeping bag. Hubby used to set up the tent in the back yard sometimes and let the kids use it for a club house.

I have looked at those propane heaters, but even though they say they would be safe indoors, I just have doubts. We have two rooms with fireplaces. One room is an 18ft.x24ft Living/dining room with a large fireplace.

The other is a 13ftx24ft kitchen/snack family room with a little smaller fireplace. When the kids were small, we used to fire up the fireplaces and a wood stove in the basement.

It was too hot, we had to put on shorts and T shirts. LOL Hubby has the generators and some kerosene heaters that he bought for his outdoor work at night or cold weather. Can’t really use the heaters indoors though.

Now that the kids are adults and out of the house, we just put on more clothes, turn the furnace waaaay down, and run a small heater if additional heat is needed where our tv and computer areas are. We could use the generator to run the heaters, but not if it was a long term power outage. We’d save the fuel for running the water pump.

Those cots you are talking about are ok for sitting, but lousy for sleeping. I recently tried it and gave up and slept on the floor. LOL If I have my foam yoga mat, a wall to brace my back against, and a heating pad or hot water bottle, for a joint ache, I do pretty well. I even slept on the floor of my Dad’s hospital room quite often.

When the fireplace is on, there is no place better than the couch, so I’ll call dibs on that and let the kids have the floor. Hubby likes a chair or recliner, but he can sleep anywhere on most any surface no matter how hard.

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