The subject title sums up a great day for the campers, who were on hand to regale the powers of nature as it filled Lake Tarleton to its brim (and then some) but also had the good sense to stay out of harm’s way by gathering in the Main Lodge last evening for some hilarious cabin skits, one of which had yours truly wandering aimlessly and changing my mind in mid-sentence. An accurate portrayal, no doubt.

 

I had gone to bed in an effort to rid myself of this enervating cold I have had and thus missed the daggers aimed at me in the performances.  Feeling much better this morning at breakfast, I arrived to a scene where everyone was in a wonderful mood and still laughing at all the good digs aimed at the counselors, mostly the administrative ones.  The junior cabin skits featured lake sharks and unspecified monsters while it was the older groups who went after the top staff.

We have rules on skits, whereby no one is the recipient of hurtful lines while clever teases are fair game. Clearly, no one had gone overboard.

 

The program folks had anticipated the deluge and moved ping pong tables and gaga games indoors.  I worried a tad that perhaps they were overreacting to the forecast and I now stand corrected as this was a very good call. Sara’s good batch of pix today capture this upbeat atmosphere.

 

It looks like there is not so much rain (if any) in the forecast for the next couple of days but we will need to dry out somewhat before launching into any sort of aggressive programming.  We have a clearing breeze from the north and relatively low humidity, but no hikes will go out today given that the trails might be impassible in places.  And, despite it being a relatively warm summer so far, we have not one time been to our favorite swimming holes along the likes of the Baker River due to the heavy volumes of water.  Have I written about my theory of camp being a long-haul experience?

 

Despite the above admonitions, I suspect we will have a regular day of camp.  Boys and staff truly appreciate the routines and rhythms of normal operations and they will occur on this day.  There are some soggy sections of the soccer field, for example, but the clinics surely will operate just fine on those areas that are dry.  And so forth on land.

 

On the sea, nothing is affected except that the sandy beach has disappeared for now and the lake comes all the way up to the edge of the gravel road.  Todd squeezed in the first tease of the day when he remarked to me that now would not be a good time to go for the Lake Swim record as one would have to swim an additional twenty feet or so at both the start and the finish of the event.

 

So it is with a wink and a chuckle that we carry on.