May 4, 5, 6, 2010

Friday 4~~~~ Kent worked in the office all morning and I stayed home and baked cake donuts from a new recipe in the cook book we received from the Heath family for a wedding gift. The Carmel roll recipe was so good, I decided to try another one this chilly, rainy day. The donuts turned out real good and were so easy and fast to make. Kent really liked them as he has been asking me to make him donuts for several days now. I kept the wood boxes (the campers pay $5 for a cart full of wood) filled with wood and I helped some campers with questions about the park. It is raining so hard again today we aren't very busy; this park has a lot of tent campers, and this sure isn't tent camping weather. They are true Oregonians, as they sit around the campfire in the rain; the trees give a lot of shelter from the rain so the fires still burn. Saturday 5~~~~~ It was a slow process cleaning the camp sites this morning as the campers slept in and I couldn't get to my job very fast. It was a good morning to drink coffee inside where it was warm. Around two PM, my grandson William and his girlfriend stopped to see us, they helped us put up our new awning and by the time we finished it, it was getting pretty warm outside. We all walked over to the activity center where I helped our Lady Ranger with the children's activities the park puts on for them every Saturday. Today the children learned all about Humming birds and we helped each of them make a small Hummingbird feeder to take home and we took them to one of the Hosts campsite where they have 5 or 6 feeders for the hummingbirds to show the kids how the Hummingbirds feed from the feeders. When we got back to our camp we played a game of cards outside at the picnic table. I built a big fire as Savannah wanted to cook some hot dogs over the campfire, I left them in charge of the fire while I went to Mass, Kent was busy with some campers; after mass, we picked up a big pizza which we ate outside and we finished our card game before heading over to the Amplitheatre to watch a movie. After the movie, we watched a little television before heading to bed. William and Savannah went outside to sleep in their tent they set up while I was in church.
Sunday 6~~~~We woke up to heavy rain again this morning, normally I would love the sound of it on the roof as I lay in bed drinking my coffee, but not this morning, Kent is working in the office and I am in charge of cleaning the campsites. Remember I chose to do the campsites and sent Kent to the office!!! I just didn't plan on all of this darn rain. LOL Larry, one of the hosts worked with me today and that was nice, as I haven't cleaned too many sites yet and I didn't have a routine worked out yet. He said I was too fussy with my cleaning, that is where men and women differ in cleaning. Some of the sites had a lot of water and puddles in them from rain all week, I wrote down where all the puddles were so when they dry up, I will know where the low spots are to fill them in from the gravel pit. (pictures of the Santiam River that runs through the park) We really hurried and cleaned each site as the people vacated them, two sites they left the fire burning in the fire pit (a No NO) and we had to pour a lot of water on it to put it out to clean out the ashes and cigarette butts. It was a fun day with William and Savannah here yesterday, they slept in late in their tent this morning; (picture) after coffee and donuts that I had ready for them, they took off for home, as they had to work later today. I got to visit with them a little as they had their morning coffee. I hope they come to see us again this summer. Kent got off work at noon, so I asked Larry to finish up the last two sites, I hurried to get ready to go to Justin's party that started at !:00 PM. We arrived at the party about one hour late, it was in full swing with a lot of people there eating and some playing beer pong and some playing with the Wii game. There was so much wonderful food and the graduation cake was delicious. I ate two big pieces of cake, so much for my diet again. I love cake!!!!!!! The kids who went to college with Justin played a real fun card game I have never heard of before, and it was sure fun. You have to drink a lot of beer playing it if you aren't on your toes playing the game and being quick with the answers. I like beer, so I had my usual fun playing the game. We stayed at the party until about 8:00 PM and it was still going strong when we left, we sure had fun. Kent played beer pong and won his game and I won my game also, Kent didn't play the crazy card game, he just watched the game, as he had to drive. He sure had fun watching all of crazy rules of the game and the silly answers we gave to the questions. The one picture of the water I posted is the bench that I posted the other day that I said I was going to sit on it and fish someday, it is hardly seen from the high water we received the last few days. I think it is raining everywhere!!!!!!!!!