I thought I should tell a little bit about what the others do around here since the season is winding down.  Actually it isn’t going to feel much like it’s winding down this weekend because we have sixty three campers checking in for Labor Day weekend today.

You may recall that a couple days ago I showed some pictures of our site during a storm.  We had two inches of rain in that one storm and our site looked like this:

The storm flooded our site

Let me describe how this happened.  The area most of us Workampers live in is at the bottom of a hill.  There is a gravel road that leads down to the “Employees only” area.  Further up the hill, one of the seasonals kept getting flooded because they were at the base of the hill as it came down through the woods, so Tim dug a trench on the hill side of their site that went all the way out to the road.  Unfortunately as the water poured out of the trench onto the road, it kept running down the road and turned the corner into the low spot which is our site.  In the picture above you can kind of make out the road coming downhill behind the trees.  When I posted this picture on my blog a couple days ago, Tim and Bob decided to try to fix the problem for us.  (They are the maintenance men.)

Because there is limestone under the surface, they had to bring out the big machinery.

They put together a pipe long enough to go all the way across the road.

Once the ground was broken, they refined the trench by hand.  (Bob is on the left, Tim is in the trench.)

Here’s the trench before they put the pipe in.

When they laid the pipe into the trench, they needed to make adjustments to get it to lie in the trench properly for drainage.

This was the last picture I took before Mark and I had to do our afternoon cleaning. We use our bicycles to get around to the different areas, so I was struggling to get my bike over the trench and Bob lifted it over for me. What a sweetheart!

While we were cleaning Bob came by to warn us that there is a slight bump in the road so we wouldn’t ride our bikes down the hill too fast. From the larger stones you can see in the lower left corner to where Mark is standing is where the covered culvert was by the time we finished the afternoon cleaning.  Dang, they do good work!  You’d never know this had been dug up earlier.

They put large rocks at both ends of the pipe so that debris wouldn’t block the pipe.

Now we’re all eager for another storm to see if this works.  Thank you, Tim and Bob!

As I say, we are getting sixty three checkins today for the holiday weekend.  Normally there are two women working in the office, but as more people started checking in, Kathy joined Kathryn and Judy at the desk.

Kathryn is listening intently to a camper on the left, Kathy is joking with a camper on the right, and Judy isn’t visible because she was answering phones and doing paperwork behind them.

Kathryn had come in yesterday and said that dinner would be on her today.  She brought in the makings for Wisconsin brats (pronounced broughts) this evening, including a crock pot of brats marinating in beer butter and onions.  She also provided two kinds of chips and a cherry pie from Bea’s Ho-made which, according to everyone in the office, is the best place to get jams and pies and other goodies.  Kathryn is so good to us all and we love her!

Speaking of gifts, I took a picture of Kimba next to the happy solar flowers Bob and Cherie gave us the other day:

Kimba seemed curious about them at first because they were moving on their own, but then she settled down next to them. What a pretty scene!