Our
new home at summer camp has been full of the un-woodsy sounds of banging and
big engines.
The
main lodge is being remodeled and every few days a concrete truck rolls through
to pour another load.
When
the work is done there will be a new bathroom with shower plus storage rooms
that don’t smell like skunk where the leaders can escape for a few moments from the
badgering
of adolescents.
The
bathroom/shower building is also under renovation.
The
sinks were ripped off the wall to reveal a nice colony of black mold.
Shiny
stainless steel counters were installed with new sinks and plumbing.
More
concrete was poured to form a foundation.
Crews
of volunteers have been arriving daily to clean up the dead flies, chase out the
dust bunnies and polish windows.
My
job has been to direct the cleaners to their assigned buildings, give them a
to-do list and check them out when they’re done.
My
dear hubby was happy to help the groups with stuck windows, stubborn screens
and locked doors.
One
of our camping neighbors put out hanging baskets of flowers and a humming bird feeder.
She
has more customers than an ice cream truck.
Evenings
right now are quiet and peaceful. But
that will change a lot when the campers arrive in June. It will be good to have more warm bodies around. We're having trouble feeding all the mosquitoes by ourselves.
We’ve
had so much rain that we discovered our borrowed camper trailer has a dripping
leak right over the head of our bed.
Talk about a wake-up call. We
both blamed the other for bed-wetting until we figured it out.
The
rain, a mountain of dirty laundry, the craving for a long, hot shower and Wi-Fi
of any variety drove us out of the woods and back to civilization. We’re here for a couple of days and then we’ll
load up a filled propane tank, a basket of clean laundry, a good supply of
chocolate and DVD’s and go back for more.
