The Dates for 2009 have been posted. Prices to follow soon.
Also keep an eye out for a new version of the website.
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The move is done
The move is finished. Email should be straightened out by next Monday (2006/09/18). Everything should still get to us in the meantime, it just might take a little longer.
Moving CampDixie.org
I hope to be moving the Camp Dixie website sometime this week. During the move we might be a bit slow to respond to email. Immediately after the move the Echoes section and Miss Ann’s Memorial book will be down for a short time.
Lake back up
Well, of course the lake is back up and looking great. We replaced the steps going up to the dining hall, and the stairs going down to the rec hall. The power to the cabin line and rec hall has been rewired.
We are starting to get camp ready, the summer is creeping up on us, and there is lots left to do.
Busy, busy, busy.
Burning brush
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.
Camp Fair Alert
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.
Late Merry Christmas
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.
Photo CD’s mailed
The Photo CD’s are in the mail. If you ordered one, it’s on it’s way!
Photos from the get-together
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.
What I did on Thanksgiving
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.