It Begins!

Camp is gradually becoming alive. The animation of a place happens when the people arrive… without people it is just a generic pretty place but with people it becomes heaven like.

The counselors in camp now are a few brave souls who get things ready for the rest of us. They are cleaning, filing, fixing, building, and lots of planning things out. We also have a bunch of men in trucks who are finishing the last couple of projects, painters who are making everything shine, and cleaning ladies who are deep cleaning the bathrooms. It is a busy place, about 100 people all told… and most of them will be gone by the end of the week, replaced by the first of our summer counselors (there will be well over one hundred of those!!).

In addition to the people running all around, we also are surrounded by literal “mountains” of boxes piled up in the office and storage buildings. These hold glass rods, plate glass, silver rods, copper coils, all kinds of crafts supplies, thousands of pounds of clay, archery bows, new rifles, ammunition, targets, arrows, pool chemicals, ropes gear, safety glasses, tennis balls, softball gloves… it is an amazing amount of stuff. Soon the first food supplies will arive: four tractor trailers full of all the food we will need to feed an army of girls for about a week.

We are excited to finally open camp. It is going to be an amazing year!

Jimboy