Winter Excursion 8, Day 91 The Life of a Camp Host

It's like groundhog day (which is this Friday) around here. There is still only four campers in the park. Cath and I are going to get lazy waiting for this place to fill up. The sites remain clean and the bathhouse is hardly used.

I did cleanup the other Host Site as our new Co-hosts arrive tomorrow. We have worked with them before and we are looking forward to the next three months with them.

The find of the day is this twisty.

We find them all over the park. I wish I had started a twisty store years ago. We'd be rolling in dough! Bread dough..get it?,,,LOL.

Winter Excursion 8, Day 90 The Life of a Camp Host

With still only four campers here it was another easy day. The bathhouse had not even been used for the most part.

The wind was still kicking today, but finally died off late afternoon.

We did leave camp to do some shopping and fill up one of the propane tanks. Temps are forecast to be in the low 30s tonight.

We had two campers arrive and occupy sites 3 and 4 (buddy site). When I went over to greet them I noticed their license plates were New York and the license plate holder said "Caparra" (a local car dealership at home). I asked where they were from and they said Upstate NY. I asked where and they replied "Watertown"!

Next camper to arrive had Pennsylvania plates on their van. I asked where they were from and they said Harrisburg (where I was born)!

It's a small world!

Find of the day was this Equate Floss Brush.

If we don't get some campers here soon I'm going to run out of "finds of the day"!
   

Winter Excursion 8, Day 89 The Life of a Camp Host

It was a very easy day and that was good as we want to watch the football games this afternoon.

We only had two new campers arrive. That leaves four in camp!

The bathhouse has been hardly used, but we gave it a good cleaning anyway. The water has cleared up nicely. The staff and I all have our guesses as to what caused the problem yesterday, but no one knows for sure. I think it's from the maintenance they did and since the "run" to the well is around a quarter mile and it took that long for the "crude" to be flushed out.

The wind was kicking today and temps fell back into the low 50s. The new flags were flying nicely!

The find of the day was this "baby" battery I found near site #20.

And this "Daddy" battery I found near the office.

Daddy's name is Max and I'm sure they are happy to be back together again!

Winter Excursion 8, Day 88 The Life of a Camp Host

The day started out easy. Bathhouse was in good shape this morning and only one new camper arriving today and one leaving.

Around noon when we went to clean the bathhouse we both noticed that the water in the toilets and sinks was black! Not just a little dark, BLACK! We called the Ranger and immediately and started to flush the system again by running some empty campsite faucets. We have been having some discoloration with the water as there has been some recent maintenance on the chlorinator, but nothing like this. After running the faucets for over 30 mins the water got better. We are keeping our fingers crossed that it stays that way. Time will tell.

While all this water stuff was going on we had a stray dog show up in the campground. I put a leash on her (she's very friendly) and put her in the Ranger's cart and went in search of the owner. We found her home about a mile away, The owner was happy to see her back.

Even with all this I did have a find of the day.

It's the Grinch's green pencil left over (lost) during the holidays. With all the water issues I feel like the Grinch is just around the corner!

Winter Excursion 8, Day 87 The Life of a Camp Host

After all the "setup" the past two days, life is back to normal. The morning was spent getting all the sites ready for the weekend campers. We have 14 arriving.

While cleaning up site #21 I got the find of the day.

These were lying close to each other, but I scoured the site really good thinking I had struck it rich, but it was not to be! These will be added to our laundry quarters.

In the afternoon we just welcomed all the new arriving campers. Cath made my day by making these two Banana Breads. It was really supposed to be one, but she forgot her bread pan, so she used two of our grease catching pans from the Blackstone.

They are sooooo cuuuute!

It will be a fun weekend with all the new campers!

  

Winter Excursion 8, Day 86 The Life of a Camp Host

The campers are still being kind to us, there are only two in the campground so we have plenty of time to finish setting up.

We spent most of the day setting up our "drive-thru" garage.

It's right behind the camper. 

It allows us to empty the truck bed and it's "drive-thru" as it has two opposing screen doors, so I can drive the e-bile thru.

With only two campers here the bathhouse was hardly used, but we did spruce it up.

Later in the day we had four more campers arrive. The place has turned into Grand Central Station!

The find of the day is this.

I'm not sure what it's supposed to be. It is filled with confetti and tied with a rubber band. I only found one along the park road on the way to the office. The Park Ranger found about twenty of them scattered along the road to the boat ramp. There was a big party in one of the conference rooms yesterday and he thinks a bag of them may have flown out of a pickup truck on the way out. BTW..although they look like balloons, they are NOT! Use your imagination.

 

Winter Excursion 8, Day 85 The Life of a Camp Host

We woke up to dense fog and drizzle this morning. Everything is soaked which will make it fun for moving to the other host site today.

I did a quick look around the campground as we are "on" now. There is only one camper in the campground. The bathhouse was hardly used. At least we won't have to worry about the campground while we move.

By 1000 we were in our new site and spent the rest of the day setting everything up. Here's a pic.

By 1600 we were set up. My watch told me I had over 23,000 steps today. That meant it was "Miller Time". It felt good to sit down and relax. We sat outside until dark and got this pic of the moon rising. We could watch it from our rockers. It was 95% full and waning.

Even though we spent most of the day moving I still managed a Find of the Day.

I'm not even sure what it is!

All is well in the Boss Camp. We will be in this site until 30 April.