Spring Cleaning!

Yes, even if the weather refuses to admit it, it is Spring Time. (And the weather does refuse to admit it. I'm looking at a pile of snow that has been outside my window for so long it's technically become a glacier.)

Over the next several thousand years, this glacier will carve a magnificent valley right in front of the camp office.

To celebrate the changing of the seasons, we held our annual spring cleaning Community Service Day on Saturday.  Various campers, 4-H groups, and friends of camp came on up for a couple hours to help us take the dining hall out of mothballs and prepare for the upcoming spring and summer seasons.  

Tables were scrubbed, floors were mopped, wood was chopped, porches were swept, leaves were raked, archery nets were hung, surfaces were wiped, boxes were moved, and pizza was eaten. Plus, the mighty Hobart dishwasher awoke from it's winter slumber, and every single dish in the dining hall was sent through it. 

Special thanks to all of our volunteers, it was a fun morning and gave us a great head start to getting camp ready for warm weather and everything that comes with it.

Here are some pictures from Saturday and thoughts on camp, courtesy of some of our campers who gave up a Saturday morning to help us tidy the place up:

The dish is always cleaner on the other side.

"Living in the 21st century, it's nearly impossible to find a place where people aren't attached to their iphones, ipods, tablets, or computers. It's even more difficult to find an accepting community. A place where flaws are considered beautiful and where being different is considered enticing. Finding LG Cook started off as a way to pass the time during summer, but its steadily grown into one of the most important things in my life." - Luci

Volunteers volunteering to be Volunteers-In-Training. Only a few more summers and they'll can earn the privilege of doing the whole camp's dishes after viking dinner.

" We had a great time working at the HOBART.  Camp is the one place on earth I can be myself and be with people who are also comfortable to be themselves at the magical place of L.G. Cook.  I suffer from camp depression, which is when you stay away from camp too long and miss it a lot. So going to this community service was a taste of summer which I am waiting for. Only 99 days now till session one." - Courtney