Got the biggest laugh when they are packing to go to the lake for summer vacation. June asks Ward to hand her a box and he asks why it's so heavy. She says it has napkins and adds a pressure cooker and "steam iron!" Imagine June planning to iron clothes while up at a cabin. She also plans to make exciting dinners.

Yeah, and for a two week vac. you need to bring a heavy pressure cooker?

They always showed June vacuuming, dusting, snooping and cooking but never doing laundry or ironing. Wonder if she was going to bring her vacuum.

Made you blink.

They always showed June vacuuming, dusting, snooping and cooking but never doing laundry or ironing. Wonder if she was going to bring her vacuum.

Beaver and Richard did the laundry.

Chuckie did all the vacuuming.:cool:

For a place the Cleavers have been going for 11 years, I don't recall any other mention of Lake Crescent.

Me either. Glad you brought up an old thread and leave it it to me to have started that thread. I believe in The Merchant Marine Ward talks about how they vacation at Crystal Lake. Yet in Un-Togetherness Ward says he got the letter that confirms another summer vacation at Lake Crescent like you said. Heck I’m surprised they didn’t get another cabin at Shadow Lake.

I’m surprised Beaver was so excited about a summer vacation at Lake Crescent they were little kids and they didn’t want to go to Shadow lake. They wanted to go to the movies and see Jungle Fever.

If Crystal Lake was brought up in Merchant Marine, Connelly and Mosher were getting lazy in the later years, and not reviewing scripts.

Un-Togetherness writer conversation:

"Hey, what lake was that...Crystal, Crescent...?"

"Uh, I think it was Crescent."

Wrong-o!

Imagine June planning to iron clothes while up at a cabin.

I can get why she did what she did IF they were staying in a "Classy" area. If a family wanted to dine at the Ahwahnee in Yosemite, they would have clean, ironed clothes.
The dress code (yes there is a dress code in the woods) has been relaxed, but in the Cleaver's time, it would be black tie.

https://www.travelyosemite.com/dining/the-ahwahnee-dining-room/

Some of the "stuff" that goes on up at a cabin.

https://veryfinedecor.com/ahwanee-dining-room-dress-code/

Now bringing a pressure cooker? That makes no sense. Arent' they for canning?

Now bringing a pressure cooker? That makes no sense. Arent' they for canning?

Perhaps she anticipated making wild berry preserves?

Since we saw her grinding beef one time, she probably brought the meat grinder too.

So while the guys were swimming or fishing, June was putting up preserves, ironing clothes, and grinding beef. In her pearls.

Apparently it is not uncommon to take pressure cookers with you when you are mountain climbing. Not sure why one would do this but...

Weight is a concern with backpackers, so mountaineering pressure cookers are designed to operate at a lower differential pressure than stove-top units. This enables them to use thinner, and therefore lighter materials. Generally, the goal is to raise the cooking temperature enough to make cooking possible and to conserve fuel by reducing heat lost through boiling.[citation needed] Lightweight pressure cookers as small as 1.5 litres (0.40 US gal) weighing 1.28 kilograms (2.8 lb) are available for mountain climbers. Sherpas often use pressure cookers in base camp.[9]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_cooking

I can see June now with her hiking boots and a backpack with a pressure cooker. Never heard of anything crazier than bringing a pressure cooker camping. Cans of beans and franks sure.

Stevea that was a riot “So while the guys were swimming or fishing, June was putting up preserves, ironing clothes, and grinding beef. In her pearls.”

We go camping a lot and we use a pressure cooker, it's excellent for quicker meals, nothing like a bowl of chili or stew on a cold night.

We go camping a lot and we use a pressure cooker, it's excellent for quicker meals, nothing like a bowl of chili or stew on a cold night.
How do you heat it? Open flame or over a Colman type stove?