Session 1 of Camp is over and I went to closing Saturday morning. I didn’t know as many of the camper families in this session—which was for teens and young adults—as I usually do. Most of the campers Miss Gay and I worked with the first 12 years of camp are now attending the adult camps.…
Rancher Camp
Tuesday and today the Ranchers have been training the incoming counseling staff for Ranch Camp. They do this by being “Campers” for two days, and they take their job very seriously. We do, too, even paying them their regular wage to do it. Everything happens that will happen at regular camp in order to give the…
If I Needed You
Whew. Yesterday was Jerry’s birthday, the end of a long month of family birthdays. Out of 16 members of our immediate family (Jerry and I, our four daughters, three sons-in-law, six grandkids, and one grandson-in-law) nine of us are blessed with birthdays in the merry month of May. (Actually, I suspect the really merry month…
A Berry Bountiful Harvest
Berry season is upon us! Jerry and I picked blackberries Monday evening and I came home and gobbled mine up right away with sugar and cream. Last night (Thursday) he banged around in the kitchen for about 3 hours with 12 open cookbooks making a pie. After all his labor he declared it unfit to…