This weekend we burned brush. We had 2 fires going in the dry lake bed. It took a while and we all got sunburned, but it went pretty well. We moved some other brush and a few other things Sunday. It doesn’t seem like we did very much Sunday because we were all so tired from Saturday, but we were still pretty productive.

We will start filling the lake back up any day now.

Rhonda has given me the new forms for this year. I’ll try to get them posted soon.

We’ll be at a Camp Fair this Saturday from 9am-3pm. Come on by and say howdy! Hopefully we’ll be very busy signing up campers for this summer, but there are always lulls in the action.

Where:
Mnt. Pisgah United Methodist Church
9820 Nesbit Rd
Alpharetta, GA 30022
9am-3pm Sat

I count vouch for the directions or even if the location is right but here is
Mnt. Pisgah United Methodist Church on Google maps.

Well, it’s more than a bit late, but Merry Christmas! We didn’t have a white Christmas but we did have some snow last weekend.

It was brighter than it looks in the photos.

The Photo CD’s are in the mail. If you ordered one, it’s on it’s way!

I promised photos and here they are!

I got Dylan to wear the Elf hat. Tom wore the Santa hat for a while.

Maybe 10 minutes in, we all stopped for a photo.

We headed straight for Bass Pro, played some at the shooting gallery, and moved on to the fish tank.

Perhaps Rhonda was thinking of trying her luck fishing the tank?

Apparently everyone was already tired and needed to rest in the first mattress store we passed.

Heh, Nicola looks goofy.

Nobody wanted to leave the mattress store, they were very comfortable, but the movie was waiting.

It was great getting to see all of the campers and staff members who turned out for the Christmas Get Together. As usual, the time went by way too fast but what fun we had in such a short time. Jason, Nick and I enjoyed spending the afternoon with each of you. We will be planning another get together for some time in February.

Everything is on track for the Get-together tomorrow, we will be at Discover Mills in front of the theater by 1 pm. Make sure you already have a ticket for the 3:45 showing of Narnia. We’ll walk around the mall some and hang out, maybe hit the arcade. Parents are welcome to come along.

It may have been Thanksgiving but we at camp weren’t just sitting around enjoying the day (Well, not all day). While Rhonda and Nicola were fixing a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch, Rhonda’s brother Tony and I made a quick escape and went down to the dam to start draining the lake. The dam has an upper and a lower gate, so we started with the upper gate, opening it a little bit at a time. The upper gate is easiest, you simply turn the wheel.

After lunch we all went down to Mud Turtle and could already see significant progress. Rhonda brought her fishing pole and tried to see if she could catch any fish. Tony kept telling her that he didn’t believe there were any fish in the lake, but Rhonda tried anyway. No luck this time, but I’m sure she’ll try again after we fill the lake back up in the spring.

On Sunday Rhonda and I went down and opened the lower gate on the dam. The lower gate is a bit harder than the top one. You need to haul the gate up by a chain, and it’s heavy. Still, we opened the lower gate without a problem. The lake will stay drained until probably early spring, when it will have dried out enough for us to walk on it to thin out the brush along the bank.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Camp Dixie family.

This whole weekend is mostly a blur. It wasn’t the busiest one we’ve had but it was pretty packed. Friday I got up just in time for dinner. They were cooking out on flag field. I met Zack’s fiance, Jen, and we almost but didn’t quite get rained on. Saturday morning we did some patching on the stable roof. After lunch we cleaned out the path to riflery and raked the rifle range. Sunday morning Zack and I cleared the path to sliding rock. After lunch we all worked on cleaning the cabins. Monday (Memorial Day) it was raining in the morning so we cleaned the Rec Hall and Zack and I put together 2 portable basketball goals. We cleaned out the water tanks, which was pretty easy, just a little bit of silt had accumulated over the year.

Somewhere in there Emily S. arrived, and I met Gene, who will be the Cabin 2 counselor this summer.