AS TIME PASSES

In some ways the time passes quickly.  It seems when you write things on the calendar, they start out being so far away, it's hard to imagine.  Then, wow, they are here, some are gone.  Nico has graduated.   Graeme has gone to St. Louis to see his girlfriend.  Jason, Michelle, Sophie and some of their friends will be here to camp in just three days.  We are nearly half way through the summer at Monck.

Our days off pass quickly.  We do have days off this year, unlike last.  We spend quite a bit of our time off running errands for the park.  There are always supplies to pick up, banking to be done and weekly trips to the recycling depot.

Park truck loaded with the cardboard bound for the recycle depot

Our staff is all working hard and we get many compliments on how the park is looking.  All summer we are interviewing the campers and having them complete an on-line survey as to how we stack up with the other BC Parks.  We want to be #1.

Doug's usual mode of transportation.  In this load, an old wharf that he had to remove from the lake.  He was in the water in his shoes, up to his knees.

Saturday I put on our first family activity.  As we were experiencing intermittent showers, I wasn't expecting much of a turn out.  Wrong!  I had one of the biggest turn outs ever.

The children and their parents had fun.  A cute story... the little girl in the flowered raincoat came up to me and said "My name is Hannah, and today is my birthday."  Naturally we sang Happy Birthday to her. Her Mom tapped me on the shoulder and said "It's not really her birthday.  She tells everyone that.  Everyday!"

Doug always finds the time to take fabulous bird pictures.  Here are another one for you.

Western Tanager