Winter Excursion 9, Day 155 The Life of a Camp Host

We spent the morning in camp relaxing. 

We picked up Jerry & Carolyn around noon and did some more sighting in the area.

We all had a great late lunch at the Rookery. Their hamburgers were really good and the onion rings are to die for!

Back at camp we had a repeat of yesterday and just sat outside and enjoyed the breeze coming off the lake.

I did manage a bird of the day. Here's a pair of Northern Mockingbirds.

One more "off" day tomorrow and then back to work for a few days.
 

Winter Excursion 9, Day 154 The Life of a Camp Host

It was super nice to sleep in this morning. We crawled out of bed around 0830. I don't think I woke up all night.

The weather has turned hot and humid. The high was near 90 today with 85 - 90% humidity! Hopefully this breaks before we are "on" again.

We spent the day with Jerry & Carolyn. We took them on a drive around the area and we had a late lunch/early dinner at the Whistle Stop. We spent the evening at their camper and had a few ABs. We did get an evening breeze off of the lake.

The bird of the day was a Brown Headed Cowbird.

I can't figure out how he got his name!
 

Winter Excursion 9, Day 153 The Life of a Camp Host

Normal day of hosting. The campground remains full and will probably stay that way until we leave at the end of the month. We only have 12 more hosting days. We are off for the next three days and will be running around with Jerry & Carolyn.

I made the last reservation for this years trip today. All together we will be visiting 36 campgrounds including our host campground!

The find of the day was this screw.

Many of our campers have a "screw loose"!

The birds found the feeder again and managed to empty it in two days! I'll get some more "bird of the day" pics soon.
 

Winter Excursion 9, Day 152 The Life of a Camp Host

It's spring break for this area and the campground remains full. All 28 sites are occupied. The bathhouses are getting lots of use as there are lots of tenters. 

The weather is warming up and We are starting to see lots of ants. I made sure the area around the camper was ant proofed. Many of our trash cans around the campground were loaded with them today. A little ant spray seems to take care of them. The locals just say "it's normal"!

The find of the day was this kayak. Someone reported a kayak adrift with no people in it near the campground.

I went looking for it and it turns out to be two kayaks lashed together with the occupants lying down in them and just drifting with the wind. I hope they didn't get sunburned!

Winter Excursion 9, Day 151 The Life of a Camp Host

Our first day back after our four day weekend was a busy one. It didn't help that we had some debris clean up from yesterdays storm. Cath spent extra time in the bathhouses and I on some of the sites. We had a big turnover today.

Our friends from back home arrived this afternoon. It was good to see Jerry & Carolyn. We had them over for dinner and spent the evening catching up on all our travels.

The find of the day was this golden twirley. 

I was hoping it was real gold, but it's just worthless gold paper. It's now in the trash!

There is no bird of the day. The bird feeder was full when we left last Friday, but totally empty when we got home yesterday. I filled it this morning, but we think the birds have abandoned us!

Winter Excursion 9, Day 150 The Life of a Camp Host

After the Kiddos left for school and Brian left for work Cath and I hit the road around 0830. We stopped for a quick breakfast sandwich and then drove back to camp. We arrived in a thunderstorm around 1400. The storm ended with no damage to our campground. High Falls (just north of us) lost power and had trees down. Once again we dodged a bullet. 

Back to work tomorrow! It's been a fun weekend.

Winter Excursion 9, Day 149 The Life of a Camp Host

The girls got home mid morning and Brian had the day off. We all had a nice egg sandwich courtesy of Wesley.

We spent the day just hanging out and then went to a tennis match. Wesley and Kennedy won their matches, but the team lost.

Back home we had a super nice steak dinner and watched a few movies.