As the Winter Passes

I spent the first part of the week in and returning from Chicago.  It was kind of crazy, but I think the trip was worth it.  I watched the Red Wings win their 20th consecutive home win with some friends and then I had lunch with Tim (Youth Pastor at Garrison Hills) on Wednesday.  Made it back just in time to join in on a staff potluck and then join in with Luke and Randy Harris at a Kirtland Community College basketball game over in Mio.

The rest of the week was a flurry of cleaning mixed with some tree cutting.  We also cleaned up the brush pile that's been piled up for a while.  A couple of the trees we dropped were right over the fence near the West Side basketball court.  With some help from the Skytrak and some crafty cutting by Mike Baker we made it work without much trouble.  Then we spent a solid hour tending the burn pile to get the wet wood going and eventually we burned it down to just about nothing.  Here's some low quality video:

This weekend was the first combined combined teen retreat.  That means that both sides of camp come together on the East side for a combined chapel.  The weather gave us just enough snow to keep the tubing hill going, and that meant a fast couple runs this weekend.  Don Jackson was the speaker this weekend and he's always a favorite of the campers.  I was excited this weekend when a package showed up from my Dad's house.  Inside of it was my first electric razor!  Dad put in some pre shave and post shave stuff along with some "English Leather" cologne.  I don't know about that part, but we'll see what happens.

English Leather.....

Two more winter weekends.  I'm looking forward to them, but i'll be happy to get some normal weekends in the Spring.  Plus some trips to the southern half of the state.  The Spring will also bring the end of the high school basketball season.  I've been running clock for most of the girl's home games this year.  Tonight was a crazy overtime game between Fairview's JV and Alpena's Freshman team.  It's pretty impressive that a Class D school would push a game into overtime against a good Class A school.

So we carry on here.  Pray with me for the campers, speakers and the part time staff that are coming up for the next couple weekends.