Or, should that read “Nature Devours Us?”  Of course I was delighted with the soaking rains of yesterday and I put my money where my mouth was by assigning myself a rainy day hike on the Moosepoops Trail through the woods to the boggy area where the pitcher plants grow.  These carnivorous fauna are extremely fragile things which survive by trapping insects in their wide mouth-like cups and eventually digesting them.  (We saw a pile of moose poop, too)

In my photos, you see lots of red streamers marking the way, but we hide the start of the trail so that trampers have to know where to look to find the initial path.  “These are not museum displays,” I warned the boys and we had to be careful with every step along the way.  Maddox Palmer allowed that he had done a school report on plants like these but had never really seen them in the wild.

Later in the excursion, another boy asked me out of the blue, “Why did you buy Kingswood,” whereupon I instantly barked that I did it so that the day would come when I could lead this hike in a driving rain.  Not that much of an exaggeration, I must insist.

By dinner time, it was obvious that we were socked in for the day.  “Cabin Carnival tonight?” I inquired of Mike Wiff, whose happy grimace told me that not only was mine the correct assumption but that he was tickled not to have to do anything himself to organize it.  You see, we have  so many experienced staff who were only so glad to give Mike and other administrators the night off.

I took a very brief tour of the carnival venues and determined, too, that the event was in good hands.  I took some modest pix but see that staff guys got some really good ones, which Sara will capture and send along to you.

The heat is back today but it feels a lot more agreeable minus the nuisance of dust.  Only four days are left in the session but there are dozens of activities which have been promised to the boys.  Can we deliver on all of it?  Maybe.  Stay tuned.