The Dynamic Duo: Take 2

Well once again, about 5 paragraphs in, my foot strikes the powerbar with all the agility and killing intent of a cobra. This is not an isolated incidence, and although my usual response to the sudden void of darkness that hath engulfed my precious paragraphs is outright frustration, on this occasion I stared at the black screen for a few seconds and then laughed real hard for about a minute.

Life is silly.

Hah, my grandma figures if my lost work was a blog entry, this will be more of a blob entry. Wow, my grandma is neat!

So lets start with last weekend. I was really really out of it, like done. There were some plans up in the air and I told God I was going to leave my weekend in his hand to work out the details. How smart. I wish I was always that smart. I had the best weekend in recent history, and I've had good weekends. This was just incredible. I spent some time with Clint after camp doing as close to nothing as possible. At first I thought I was bored, and then I said "no, this is exactly what I want to do. Nothing. This is sweet." Clint agreed. I picked up Amber and a dog and some steaks and went out to the Badgers to enjoy a peaceful afternoon of sitting on the grass, succulent steaks(With the emphasis on the "t". SucculenTAH), some intense foosball antics, and a longer than excected animated film. Hangin with Amber, Kels and Bray is just like rest to me. Especially when I am treated to some of that Rhubarb slush. If you haven't had it don't worry, there will be plenty of it in heaven.

I tried to sleep in on saturday and I guess I really suck at that game. I gave up after 9:00 and lounged around the house a bit before going home. Caitlin Wilson came over to hang out with myself and Ori and Keisha. They didn't come home until around..8 or something, so the two of us hung out, which was neat cause we haven't done a lot of that. We sat on our deck with mom for at least an hour, not saying a whole lot. Mom sprayed me with water lots and thats about the most that was ever occurring. There was some quading, some silly card game I can NEVER win at, and some cows somewhere in there too. I have rarely felt so "at home" at home, it was unbelievable. Ori and Keisha came home and the 4 of us rushed out to catch a sunset from a place with a view. We made it there just in time, God might have held the sun for a few minutes for us, we got there and it sure seemed to go down fast. I have always wanted to do that and never really had the chance to. I could not have imagined a better weekend, and it was presicely what I needed. Man...

Well camp this last week was very very different. God brought only 12 girls down to camp this year, and it was so neat because that meant that Kelsey got to take a week off, which was probably what she needed, Lisa was able to do first aid instead of councilling, which was neat because she broke her foot skydiving and would not have been able to council anyway. It also freed up Caitlin to become a sort of assistant assistant director. ha. Randy (what a blessing it has been working with him these last two weeks!) kept calling us the Dynamic Duo. Which was strange and kinda funny. Having Caitlin around to help out took a TON of stress of Randy's load, and for me, it really eased up the pace of the week. I found this week to be almost entirely relaxing, thank God, that was so good for me. I had this voice in the back of my head that kept telling me I was not working hard enough, but Randy was totally pleased with what was going on, everything that had to be done was getting done and all the things I could come up with were getting done, so eventually I stopped listening to that voice and accepted this week as a gift of rest, peace, and fun, from the father. Jesus says his yoke is easy and his burden is light, don't make it harder or heavier for yourself. That is just stupid :)

Caitlin and I spent a lot of time together this week, which was quite different, because we really haven't done a whole lot of that. She was totally ready to not have a cabin after last week. She was glad to be away from them by last friday; by tuesday she was ready to start taking campers home :) It was really neat and a ton of fun, I laughed lots which is good, I don't do enough of that. Noone does. Everyone seemed to be having fun this week, there was a spirit of lightheartedness around camp and it was such a good ending to our resident camps, last week was a stretcher for sure and to be able to come away from this week in the frame of mind and spirit that I am in now leaves me without words of thanks. I am in quiet awe of the Master of the universe.

I just realized that I never mentioned the plague of frogs! One day someone went on a hike and came back with a few hundred frogs that were about the size of a penny each. One night Randy and I came back to our cabin to find they had been turned loose on us. Little froggies are so cute, and I don't even care what anyone says, cause I likem! Same with turtles. I really love animals, even the mice that run around in the buildings at night. I got a good look at a few of em and they are just neat. I had to stomp a fat mouse last week, and that wasn't to fun. they have tough skin and soft insides and...I don't wanna talk about it anymore.

4 days of day camp and some a few days of wrap up and that will be 4 summers of wapiti under the belt...strange.

see ya