So are the "Days of our Lives"

Six of us went camping last weekend up in Sedona.

As is frequently the case when one finds oneself in the backcountry, you are forced to improvise for common necessities. It was no different for us.

Saturday evening we discovered that we had neglected to include a vital item in our gear.

In order to play the game of our choice around the campfire, we needed a one minute timer.

Not to be deterred, we quickly set upon a method to construct an operational timer from common household items (available at our campsite).

By simply poking two small holes in the soda bottle, one in the cap and one in the bottom for the air to escape, filling it with a predetermined amount of water, then inverting it onto the wide mouth bottle, we could watch the water drain like sands through the proverbial hourglass.

After a few minutes of moderate success with this contraption (It was challenging to manage a bottle of water with holes in both ends), we came to our senses and opted to use the stopwatch on Kelly's cell phone.