August 25 through 28, 2010

Wednesday 25~~~~~Kent worked in the office from 7:30 until 12:00 today and I cleaned sites. There were a lot of them to clean this morning and I cleaned both bathrooms also. It was chilly when I started, but it sure warmed up fast at the pace I was going. I really enjoy the physical part of the job and visiting with all the campers is a real joy. We really take pride in cleaning the sites, we rake all the sites, leaving pretty rake mark designs in the gravel and we clean the ashes from the fire pits. We also blow away the leaves or pine needles from the roads and drive ways. I can't start the blower myself, so I sweep a lot until Kent is there to start the blower. Friday 27~~~~Our friends Wayne and Odie camped in the park tonight, bringing Waynes huge telescope for the "Star gazing" program we have on Friday nights in the park. The park has 4 very nice telescopes and Wayne has a huge telescope he made himself in a class years ago. The lens is as big a dinner plate and it is 5 feet long. We have to wait until dark to set up and the campers bring their children and it is a lot of fun for all. Tonight the moon was under cover and it was just plain too dark to see anything in the sky. It was a disappointment for all of us, but the kids looked at some stars and I let everyone look at the stars and planets on my Droid Phone!!!! They really liked that, they couldn't believe a phone could do all that. LOL
Saturday 28~~~~~Kent didn't work in the office this morning, so he was here to clean sites and I was free to drive into Mill City and go to some of the garage sales they have going this weekend. Every year on this weekend the whole town does one continues garage sale and it is a lot of fun. I love cowboy boots and I found a new pair of them for only $5.00, so of course I had to buy me another pair. I bought a puzzle for Bodie and Blaize to put together up here tomorrow for 50 cents. I decided to start putting it together for them so it will be more fun to do with the edge pieces all done; I had a terrible time putting it together, so I kept doing more and more out of curiosity. Before long it was about done and it was a puzzle of a mother ape and her baby ape in her arms, not the puzzle that should have been in the box. The kids would never have figured that one out putting it together themselves. ha Sunday 29~~~~Tress and Cory and the kids came to the park this afternoon and they brought dinner with them for all of us. It was getting chilly outside, I had a nice fire built in the fire pit and all the chairs around it. We ate dinner outside and we had a great evening, finishing it up with a children's sing a long in the amplitheatre at dusk with all the children receiving their choice of a large poster. Tress is getting along pretty good on her crutches with this foot surgery. She is sure ready to be back to normal, with two good feet and no pain.