January 23, 2010
Camp Scenes, Wildlife
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Hey, Maax here!
I was heading up to the house today to see if Tami wanted to go for a walk, and it looked like she had the same idea!
Great minds think alike!!
“Heading to the lake?” I asked.
“Where else, big guy?” she said, patting my antler.
So we started down the main road, and tromped into the middle of the playing field. Tami checked the seasonal sites on both sides of the field
before we walked under the basketball hoop into the woods. As always, Cookie had to be in the lead
She’s such a five year old!
Tami stopped a lot ’cause she said she wanted to take pictures. She thought I couldn’t tell, but she was really getting winded from the wicked bad cold she has. I asked her if she wanted to go back, but she really wanted to see if the eagles were down at the point.
When we first stepped into the woods, four huge ravens started squawking and shrieking. They swooped low over us
and landed on a branch where they kept taunting us. They didn’t worry me at all . . . really! But Cookie was so freaked out, she ran back to walk next to Tami.
“Never mind them,” Tami said. “They’ll stop.”
It was so pretty outside today. The sky was a bright blue, and the sun was shining down.
The animal prints above came all the way across from the beaver hut to the campground point. Then it followed our marked trail alongside the lake and up into the 20′s. Tami tried to take a picture of the prints so she could look it up, but they just looked like blobs in the snow. They weren’t big like mine, so they weren’t moose. But they didn’t look like Cookie’s either, so they weren’t from a dog. I guess they could have been from one deer, but deer usually travel together, don’t they?
When we got to the point, Tami called Cookie back off the ice and made her sit. “I thought I heard the eagle cry,” she said. We stood quietly, looking up and down the lake. Tami even used the telephoto lens. We saw some ice fisherman down by the state park. We saw some snow mobilers out on the lake.
But we didn’t see the eagles.
“Did you hear that?” Tami asked.
“That squeaky, squawky sound?” I said.
We listened some more.
“Um, Tami?”
She held up a hand. “Shhhhhh! I still hear it.”
“But Tami-”
“Maax! What?”
“You’re making the squeaky, squawky sound. When you breathe.”
Tami just looked at me for a minute, and when she squeaked again, she started giggling . . . which made her cough . . . which made her decide it was time to head for home. We took the path alongside the lake that lead us out of the woods across from site 29, and we walked up the hill through the 30′s
Tami’d like to go out tomorrow too. I sure hope her cold is better, and not worse!
January 1, 2010
Camp News, Camp Scenes
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Hey everyone! Maxx here!
Did you all have a great Christmas season? How about your New Year’s celebrations? Things were crazy around here, what with Tami directing the church youth play, baking cookies, wrapping paper flying all over, and celebrations with family and friends. Tami says it just wouldn’t be Christmas without a little bit of craziness, though!
And I’m sorry it took so long to post a blog entry, but you see, the laptop cord to Tami’s computer started to smoke one night, and even though she didn’t freak out for tooooo long . . . and they ordered a new cord right away . . . it was so close to Christmas that it took forEVer to arrive.
Guess what?? Tami and David invited me up to the house to celebrate New Years! We had a blast playing a game of double twelve dominoes. Tami kept telling me how good she was at playing it . . .
but the rest of us were just a little bit better! She came in last place! HA! So she made us all switch to Tumbling Tower
where Ben, David, Alex and Bryant stacked the tower so well, Tami came in last again. She tried telling everyone that they’d ganged up against her, soDave suggested a different kind of game.
He put four chairs facing each other in the middle of the kitchen. Then he told everyone to sit sideways on the chairs with their feet firmly on the floor, and to lay their heads on the knees of the person behind them. Then I pulled OUT all the chairs from under them, and Ben snapped this picture
It was wicked cool! They all stayed up in the air for about a minute . . . till Tami fell on her butt from giggling so much!
THIS is what Tami says about her non-winning streak
After everyone FINALLY woke up this morning, I dragged Tami and Cookie out for a walk in the woods. The snow was falling gently, and it was so quiet and peaceful.
Tami said it was just what she needed ’cause starting Monday, she’s got a lot of work to do! There’s over 250 advance reservations to enter in the computer and letters to send to those campers. Then she has to send her “Think Spring” letter to the seasonals and the 500 families who camp with us year, after year, after year.
Oh! And she’s got to write up her 2010 Calendar of Events! Tami said all the entertainment is booked, including Santa.
While Tami was out Christmas shopping, I took a sneak peek in her files. All our favorite theme weekends are listed! Pirate Weekend, Adventurer Weekend, Super Hero Weekend, two Halloweens and many, many more!
I can’t wait to see all my camping buddies again so we can make some 2010 memories!
March 31, 2009
Camp News, Camp Scenes
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But it’s going fast!
Tami’s Dad won’t believe me when I tell him we still have snow back here in the campground. I dragged Tami outside today to get some pictures so I could say “I told you so” . . . have proof.
Here’s the pool, Dad!
It’s not exactly ready for swimming!
And here’s the main road
Here’s Big Joe’s road, the road with campsites 83 to 90 and the lake road, in that order
And here’s campsite 103!
Tami and I walked through spots where the snow was still a foot deep, and she started grumbling about snow in her boots and fussing about how flip flop season can’t come soon enough. I made her keep going though, and we ended up down by the beaver hut. There was a little bit of open water there, and before we could stop her, Cookie jumped right in!
Crazy dog! It must have been freezing! What you can’t see is that there’s ice right behind her!
Calls are coming in . . . people are definitely ready!
Only 30 days until camping season begins!!
February 16, 2009
Camp News, Camp Scenes
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Hey! Maxwell here!
Sorry it’s taken so long to post, but things have been crazy here since the camping show!
Tami says she saw lots and lots of campers she knew. She talked up the campground with lots of new campers too. Everyone seemed really upbeat and positive and ready for summer to begin. She had a lot of fun chatting all day . . . which is something she doesn’t get to do too often in the dead of winter.
Tami said the kids really liked my photo! A couple of times, they stood in the aisle pointing at it and chanting, “Mom, Mom, Mom! It’s Maxwell! Look! Maxwell! ”
Awwww, thanks!
Things have been hopping here; the phone’s been ringing and people are booking their favorite campsites. With Alex back at school, Tami put me to work making copies and stuffing envelopes. Now I have sticky hooves and stamps on my antlers.
I’m just hoping Tami doesn’t scoop me up with all the outgoing letters, and put me in the mailbox too!
We hiked to the lake twice last week, but no sign of the eagles. There were ice fisherman, and plenty of tracks. We even found this hole with signs of someone’s dinner to the left of it.
One of Tami’s non-fiction writing friends said that it looked like a red squirrel hole. That’s how they travel in the winter from place to place, under the snow. It keeps them safe from owls and hawks and such.
And here’s Big Joe’s camper
The snow’s gone down a little since Tami took this photo . . . but it’s nowhere near ready to move in yet!
It’s been pretty quiet around here, except for this visitor:
He reminds me of the picture book A Snowman Named Just Bob by Mark Moulton and Karen Good. I told Tami she had to get it for story time this summer.
January 12, 2009
Camp Scenes
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Maxwell Here!
Another snow storm came through Poland Spring Campground Sunday morning. Just a little one, really. About 4 inches total of the powdery kind and just enough for Tami and Ben to grab their snowshoes. Cookie and I tagged along for their first snowshoe trek of the season!
We traveled the edge of the lake from the playing field side down toward the swimming area and were a little surprised by how quiet the lake itself seemed for a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
No snowmobilers, no ice fisherman, no cross country skiers.
We decided to walk back home by using the main road to the office, and saw some pretty sights.
Cookie danced around Tami as she took these photos while Ben and I kept jumping up to grab branches and dump snow on each other
And just for my frequent poster, I asked Tami to take a picture of your campsite Terry!
See? Everything safe and sound. Aaaaaaand covered in snow.
But if all these snowy pictures
are getting my readers down, let me show you some gorgeous photos sent in by one of our newest seasonal campers, Kathy Edwards.
These were taken early morning in October of last year
Thanks Kathy! They’re beautiful!
So chin up! Before you know it, we’ll be putting the snow shoes away and getting this old grader out again
to smooth the road for your return!
If anyone has photos they’d like to send us, we’d love to post them here! Just contact us through the website!
March 1, 2008
Camp Scenes
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Okay, it’s official. I’ve had enough of this
The above photo was taken from my front porch. So just in case any of you out there are saying,
“Hey, that doesn’t look too bad -”,
THIS is what I see from ground level:
And this from my front window:
The white stuff isn’t done falling yet, either. They’re predicting 10 – 14 more inches here, and we’ve gotten maybe eight of them so far today.
For those of you who like to count down the weeks . . . and you know who you are . . . we have eight and a half.
EIGHT AND A HALF!
And boy, oh, boy, I can’t wait to see this from my front window . . .
Think Spring everybody!
January 19, 2008
Camp Activities, Camp News
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So what do we do in January when we’re snowed in?
We send out our Think Spring letters with a Calendar of Events to all our repeat customers! We’re trying to coax you into booking early. If you don’t receive one by the end of January and you’d like to, just send me an e-mail with your address through the website and I’ll put one in the mail to you. Or you can see it on our website here.
Pirate Weekend
and Medieval Weekend
were so much fun last year, that we decided to add a new theme.
Are you ready for this?
Super Hero Tryout Weekend!
It’ll be August 22 – 24. We’re encouraging the kids to bring their superhero outfits and tryout at our silly Olympic events: run faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall buildings, water balloon target practice and toilet paper tie up. Mad Science will perform their Spin, Pop Boom show on Saturday night!
January 7, 2008
Camp News
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Creating a blog seemed like a great way to kick off 2008! We plan to post news, photos and updates to attract new customers and keep in touch with our regulars.
Alex and I are now working on getting out our Think Spring letter with the Calendar of Events. You should see this in your mail box by the last week in January. If for some reason you don’t, feel free to send a quick e-mail, or call us. We’ll get it right out to you. We have a new theme weekend, but I think that might be a good subject for another post!
Can you believe the snow we’ve been getting? My son can’t remember the last time the piles were so high! Here’s a pic coming in the driveway. It’s getting narrow . . . Dave’s going to have to get the tractor out and push back the piles soon.
And here’s a few from around the entrance. The Game Room never looked so lonely . . .
And the store so empty . . .
It’s a far cry from this, isn’t it?
