Return of the Day in the Life Post

Ok, its been a while and a new diversity of stuff has risen to the surface. These past weeks have been quite different. A day would start with a devotional with the staff...great folks. The other day I handed out pieces of paper to everyone and said "7 lines"....they proceeded to draw 7 lines in various configurations...was very interesting. Stop by the office to see the Lost Canyon first annual art show of "7 lines". Similar days might have a worship prior to staff lunch at the dining hall or the Assigned team for the summer might be here for training from various western camps to meet and plan...lots of dining hall food that week...mmm. Yes I might gain weight. Travel has been a recent activity..flying to Reno for the Western Property manager's meeting at Mountain Lodge..a very cool location..and then a few weeks later to Atlanta at Sharp Top to meet with the rest of the property managers for some refresher training for them..new to me. Risk management was the scariest....even over finance. Truly by God's grace we walk in this ministry..any youth ministry for that matter. Still loving the diversity. Another day would be filled with discussion on starting the new intern program, followed by review of a store layout chock full of train station themes and concerns over materials and probably display space and the best use of the entire floor plan. More invoice signing of course and a day long meeting and overnight with the property committee at Lost Canyon to make sense of the future. Kicking out the next 5 year plan and budget for round 1 discussion for 2008...man already!! Major maintenence is a continual focus to keep the camp in as new condition as well as expand on some unfinished parts of the camp...got to get that mud landscaped. Hit the Lost Canyon website and see the new buildings..its really going to be amazing in Summer 07. Oh and for Y-man...I will try and post some frisbee designs per your request in the last post. For the more observant blog reader...you may have noticed that Ryan and Justin's ages have changed...yes it is birthday time..both kids will have had their birthdays in the game room here at camp...very cool. To keep folks interested...two words for another post "pig roast".