It rained all night and most of the day Today. Not even a hint of sun. Today's high was 54 while last nights low was 46.
Kathy did laundry today. I got a walk through of the camp to see some of the maintenance facilities as well as some of the maintenance needs. After than I spent time washing the baseboard and bottom 3' of the wall in one of the dining areas. I, or someone, will end up touching up the stain on the baseboard, installing a chair rail to protect the walls and repainting the lower portion of the walls.
Breakfast was scrambled eggs, tater tots and good biscuits. Hot cereal is also available. Cold cereal is also probably available. Lunch was pizza and salad. Supper was BBQ sandwiches, curly fries and cole slaw. Everything is served family style. Each table gets a big bowl of each entree. The buns were in big bowls that had been warmed in the oven. Not only were the warm, the warm bowls kept them warm.
All the staff here wear many hats. One of the things that everyone pitches in and does it carry food out to the guests. If you can get to the dining hall a few minutes early you get in line, grab a tray, fill it with whatever they are serving (one bowl of everything) and carry it out to one of the tables. There is a lady at the dining room door who directs traffic. (She tells you which row you are supposed to take food to a table.) You come back to the kitchen and if needed grab another trayfull of food and head back to the dining room. I have enjoyed doing it, although the pizza for lunch was a challenge for me. The pizzas were 14-16" diameter. They were on some type of paper plate (I guess something that could stand the baking process. There were cheese and sausage pizzas. We didn't use trays. We had to carry one of each to each table. They paper plates were floppy and you had to get your hand well centered under them. The staff eats in a separate room. There are usually over 20 people eating in the staff room.
Some photos:
Looking out one of the windows in the room I where I was working.
Looking out a different window.
The room I worked in.
Table cleaning experiment. For some reason the tops of these tables are sticky, even after they are washed. I tried a variety of things to see which, if any, would remove the stickiness. Otherwise they will all have to be sanded and refinished. The wood tables in the main dining room don't get sticky. No one knows what was used to finish the tables in the different areas.
The maintenance buildings.
The "woodpile". These areas are 10' deep. The signs indicate when the wood was cut and split. They are currently using wood that was cut in the fall of 2011. They have a full section that was cut and split during the "winter" of 2011.
I didn't check the date signs on the area below.
If you look hard hopefully you can see the building halfway up the hill, about in the center of the photo. It is an area they rent for people who want to spend time in solitude and prayer, $20/night. There is no shower in it but there is a toilet. I can't wait (I can wait until it quits raining.) to go up and check it out. The grassy area is a 9 hole kids golf course.
Some of the guest housing.
The camp is actually on the east side of Hwy 101. They built this way cool pedestrian bridge so that they didn't have to bus kids back and forth over the busy highway. The highway is 4 lanes with a center turn lane. The far span is over an active railroad track.
This is the camps lake.
Looking back at the camp from the ocean side of the bridge.
The "Twin Rocks".
Looking north up the beach.
And south down the beach.
And heading back to the bridge.
While out on the beach Kathy asked, "Did you ever think we would be out on a beach, where we could see for miles up and down the beach, and not see another person." I said, "No, but I never expected to be standing out on a beach while it was 51 degrees and raining." Actually is wasn't raining when we left to walk over the bridge.
All in all we had a good day. Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.
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