Welcome Home

The sunrise this morning was at 6:17, a glorious symphony of color to welcome another Great Day at Greystone.

First cars arrived about 20 minutes later, and as I write this update the soccer field is filling with cars at a steady rate. We will let everyone run up the hill to their cabin at 7:30.

I am the designated camp voice… a voice to let you know what is going on at camp and my take on the moment to moment experience of this wonderful place. it is an impossible job. Camp defies words- but on these pages I will try to give you a thumbnail sketch of how things are going and what to expect next.

I will update the news as things happen and I have time… sometimes several updates in a day, usually just one. When I update, I just tack it onto the end of the running daily news.

You will want to log-in to check the daily photographs as well. I take pictures as I am walking around camp, so my pictures are a bit random but are taken with an awesome camera (Nikon D3-S). My pictures are put into a folder named “Jimboy”. We also have staff photographers (counselors who love taking pictures) and they post a day and night folder of pictures. Our Ski program takes pictures that go into their own folder, and we have a professional photographer who will sometimes post into a folder called “Julie Mallett Photography”. Lots of pictures… can be intimidating… so a few hints:

1. Set your photography preferences to 48, giving you the largest number of thumbnail pictures as possible.
2. Every time you see a picture that you like, mark it as a favorite (it can be erased later), don’t open it immediately.
3. Rapidly scan the thumbnails in each folder, then go back to see your favorites with more leasure time.

We take tons of pictures, we want them to be a blessing not a curse! I can scan through 1000 pictures in about 15 minutes with this system… keep up with it and you will be glad you did.

8:30… Just returned to the office from the upper road, and amost all the bags are in the cabins. Just so you know; our goal is to have the bags waiting for you when you get to the cabin. That some of you had to wait for delivery or had to get a bag yourself is unfortunate. We work on this system every year (this year we added a large trailer to the fleet) and try to make it a little better. I hope none of you were inconvenienced.

12:45… Lunch+Greystone=delicious. Buffet lunch on opening day, a great chance to go out and have a picnic and get to know your new cabin mates. We do a pretty great job with our food service (Southern cooking from scratch, as you know). I just ate the best sandwich of the year- the bread was still warm, the crust crunchy (the bread oven injects steam and cooks on massive stone decks)- the turkey was smoked and spicy around the edges (we smoked turkey breast over the weekend)- I added sharp cheddar cheese and done. It was amazing. Camp is a simple place, simply the best!

Thank you for checking in.

Jimboy