23 days and counting

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Counting the days until your arrival and as of today there are only 23 left. The staff will come in on May 28th for a week of training as well as some of the CT’s. We are excited about having Brett and Halley back with us this summer. Some past campers will be joining our staff this year. What fun to have our family back in Dixie.

It’s not to late to have your friends sign up for camp, space is still available. Can’t wait to see you all.

This weekend will find us doing a Mother’s Day Project either working on the cabinline roof or rails on the bridge in honor of Miss Ann. Jason and I started this tradition over 6 years ago with Miss Ann supervising us. I know that she will be looking down at us on Sunday.

Lake back up

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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

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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

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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.

Photos from the get-together

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I promised photos and here they are!

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

Maybe 10 minutes in, we all stopped for a photo.
Everybody posing for the camera

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

Perhaps Rhonda was thinking of trying her luck fishing the tank?
Rhonda and the gang looking at fishing poles

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

Heh, Nicola looks goofy.
Nicola resting

Nobody wanted to leave the mattress store, they were very comfortable, but the movie was waiting.
Rhonda talking and resting on mattress

Good Times and Friends

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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.

Ready for the get-together

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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.

What I did on Thanksgiving

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Camp Dixie Lake in the Fall

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.

Camp Dixie Lake being drained.

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.

Rhonda fishing for non-existant fish.

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.