This has been an intense week so far. We have gotten so much accomplished and by the end of the week, we think we will have all of the physical stuff (cleaning, moving, organizing, etc) done. But in the meantime, we are putting in HARD work.
I started the day off driving into town to drop the chainsaws off, to be sharpened at Willy's. So far, every male I have met in the town has been named Willy... Must be a small town thing... I don't know. After that, I came back to my office and spent a very long hour, setting up our wireless router and getting the internet to work. When camp was built in 1947, I don't think they anticipated the technological needs 60 years in the future, so today required some creativity. In the end, my computer is not sitting where I wanted it, but it's fine.
After getting the offices in good shape, I spent the rest of the day, as in, 6 full hours, moving furniture, scrubbing floors, dusting, and re-organizing the rest of the building. Camp has managed to accumulate a LOT of spare furniture, which isn't actually useful because there's so much of it and it just takes up space. So I am CLEANING house, and getting rid of the excess. It was HARD, heavy work, and also REALLY dirty, since everything has been sitting for months, well, probably years if we're being honest, and is covered in a solid layer of dirt. Maybe that's part of the camp charm, the grime and dust and how you're always a little bit dirty, without being sure exactly how it happened. But I'm trying my best to make it a little less dirty, maybe even somewhat clean.
The girls worked REALLY hard moving all of the outdoor furniture that sits around camp, as well as all of the archery equipment, several rogue mattresses that weren't int he cabins they were supposed to be in, as well as doing a lot of cleaning. I am very proud of them, because neither really knew what to expect during these first few weeks, and they have been so positive and worked so hard, and made SUCH a difference, and I appreciate it so much!
Tomorrow and Friday are both going to be full of moving and cleaning projects, and I feel exhausted at the thought, but I am getting very excited for the day when we can walk around camp and have everything looking clean and organized.
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It's fun to read your comments. I can almost hear you say them (with the chumbawumba ring tone of your cell phone in the background). The office is awfully quiet without your enthusiastic presence. Your blog is making me wish the offices were in McGregor for the summer!! Thanks, Julie - office
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