Tall Timber Day Two

A full day at camp. Breakfast, devotions with summer staff and then break out into groups. It’s fun to be here when summer staff is being trained. To see all these amazing young college age students co-mingling and learning new skills or honing present ones. The theme for summer camp this year is an International one and serendipitously there is a real international sprinkling in staff. India, Germany, England to name a few.

For the Work and Worship portion of this week there are only Bruce, Don, (a friend of ours from Lynden) and myself. The day was spent in the shop making something known as “Corn Holes”… um… it’s for an outdoor game/activity …

It is a wooden framed board with a circle cut at the top and standing a distance away, the kids can toss a bean bag at it, hoping to make the hole. I don’t know why it’s called a corn hole and it was probably the paint fumes causing this, but we decided we liked ‘pie hole’ better, as in ‘shut your pie hole’… which led to this colorful and amusing phrase being tossed around all day like the bean bags that will be part of the game. Bruce and Don strategized and recycled materials to build the frames and then I painted them.

We worked till 4:30pm with lunch breaks, power naps and music to paint by to make the day glide by.

 

cleaned up a bit, then Bruce and I took a nice long walk around the meadow, along the Napeequa River and ended up out on the bridge where the Napeequa merges with the White River. From there we meandered back into camp to the lodge for dinner.

Power outages at camp happen quite frequently for some reason and Monday afternoon was no exception. Power had gone off around 5pm and was off until nearly 8. Dinner had managed to finish cooking by the time the outage occurred so we were able to eat!! J

After dinner we joined summer staff at the campfire where the staff (who will serve in a counseling role every 3^rd week or so) learned silly songs with Becky. (The Tall Timber Mosquito, being one of the all time favorites)

After campfire, and some hot chocolate, Bruce and I were ready to head to bed. We are staying in Cedar House and our accommodations are clean, comfortable, and cozy. In fact, waking up is hard to do. (but I blame some of that on our bodies still adjusting to the slightly higher altitude here at camp.)

home sweet home for our precious few days here at camp.