August 7-8, 2013

Humbug Mountain State Park, OR

Wednesday-It began raining just as we were about to set up for our program. 

 It was a light rain so we stayed at the site for a few minutes debating if we should cancel the program.  Once it started to thunder there was no longer a debate.  We placed the “Program Cancelled” sign on the kiosk and returned the golf cart to the ranger station.

We were total couch potatoes the remainder of the day.  At 8PM we returned the firewood carts to the shed (We sell firewood for the camp hosts on their days off- Wednesday and Thursday)

It had been really chilly all day but once it stopped raining and the wind died down it was nice out so we took a walk down to the lower loop and shared Norm and Cheryl’s (lower loop camp hosts) fire for a while.

Thursday-Monte has continued to set mouse traps every night.  We hadn’t found any mice in the traps in the morning so we were kind of surprised this morning that we had caught one.

 

 

The first time we did our knot program we had “0” attendees.  I think the reason we didn’t have anyone was because we only had a handful of campers staying at the park.  Two weeks ago we had one father and his two kids attend the program which was actually pretty nice because we were able to give them one on one instruction.

This morning we had 26 in attendance.  Normally when we do a craft or play a game associated with the program, it is only the kids who participate.  But with the knot tying program, the adults joined in so we didn’t have enough rope for each person so they had to take turns. 

Some kids gave up in frustration but the ones who kept at it succeeded in learning the knot and even asked if Monte would teach them more knots.  He showed them a couple more and they were thrilled.  

The younger children (5 years-old and younger) were content to color pictures.