Staying Busy at Seneca Lake

The weeks are going by and we are staying busy getting the camp ready for our first groups to arrive. We went to this beautiful Amish nursery and bought over 100 marigolds and other flowers to plant around the camp. We put the marigolds all around in the grow boxes.

LaVerl could stay busy 24/7 weed-eating!

While LaVerl is weed-eating, I'm weeding horseshoe pits, in the rain!

Then, with Sis. Cottam, finding other areas to clean!

We got a 'ding' in our car door, UGGG, and LaVerl tried to fixed it, with Bro. Cottam supervising. 

Our first group to arrive was Palmyra Stake Father and Sons. They had fun on the climbing wall and the zip line. They had a service project down at the water front and most of them were wet and shivering cold!

MOTHER'S DAY!

Sister Cottam invited all the 'Senior Service Missionaries' to her house for dinner! Yummy! The other couple, couldn't come. Just as we were all leaving, a delivery came for me-- Flowers and chocolate, from my sweet, thoughtful children!

Now the star-gazer lily's are blooming! They are so beautiful and smell so good too.

Bro. Zvirzdin, the senior missionaries that will be running the beach front, needed help getting all the canoes, paddle boats and kayaks down to the water front.

While planting flowers last week, there was a birds nest in one of the baskets. I wanted to keep it in the basket, but Sis. Cottam didn't, so I kept it, it was so cool! When I went to water the flowers we'd planted, I saw a Red Robin laying in the basket. When she flew away, I saw the eggs she had laid, right in the dirt, because we had taken her nest! When I watered the dying flower, her eggs were laying in the water! I ran back and got her nest and put the eggs back in. Later, I saw her back laying on them! Happy Day!

This picture is looking from our trailer, down to the lake. You can see the dead grass in rows after we mow. It really bugged me, so I decided to rake them all up. With the help of Sis. Harmer, she was on the grasshopper mower and made fewer rows to pick up.

LaVerl came with the Kabota with its little dumpster and he picked up all the grass and we hauled it to the burn pile. My 'front yard' looks a lot better now!!