August 15, 2010

Sunday 15~~~~~This morning the weather was cold and damp. Kent had to work in the office again. We didn't have that many sites today, as a lot of people have extended their stay with the office. Yesterday with it being so hot, a lot of kids filled water balloons and threw them at each other all over the park. That is such a mess to clean up, all those small pieces of colorful balloon pieces. I looked our my kitchen window and I saw three little girls with a bowl picking up all those miserable pieces. (picture) They were going up and down the road in all the ditches and every where. I was so impressed, I went out and told them thank you and what a good job their parents did raising them to be so polite. Then I went over to their campsite and I told their parents the same thing, they had quite a large family gathering and they were just having breakfast that they cooked over their campfire. They had a most unusual stainless steel griddle on the fire and being the curious person I am, I asked where they got it. They told me it was a disc from a piece of farm equipment used to disc the fields, the square hole in the center was welded with a piece of steel and buffed out. Notice all the notches in the disc. This griddle was enormous and held enough food for all those people with lots of leftovers. They insisted I fill two plates for Kent and I, they had flour tortillas filled with eggs, bacon, onions, peppers and potatoes. I added sour cream and salsa to our and I drove up to the office to give Kent his breakfast. What a treat that was from some lovely campers!!! If you can weld and can find some of these disc's, what a great gift to make for a camper friend or relative. This afternoon Cory, Tress and the kids came up to the park to visit us, the weather has got a lot warmer this afternoon, so Kent, Cory, Blaize and Bodie put the raft in the Santiam River at Mill City and the rafted down to the park. Of course they got wet, but they sure had fun. Tress and I waited at home for them and we went down to the water just in time to get some pictures of them. After they got all dried off, we had a BBQ dinner and sat around the campfire until they went home.