Day 845: Nearly ready for Quest!

A few more hours of sorting and organizing this morning brought us closer to being ready.  Equipment checklists for each camper and their health forms were sorted into cook groups and hike groups. Then we sorted all the t-shirts into cook and hike groups.  Next, we made a trip to Brocton to meet with their school nurse, pick up health forms and deliver equipment that a few kids needed to borrow.

Early this morning, we got an email from a mom who wanted to confirm that she should drop her daughter off at the middle school tomorrow morning for the hike.  YIKES!  How many times have we communicated the schedule?   Notices and classes and meetings and schedules and announcements!  It's like the kids and parents never talk.

Then later this afternoon, Steve got a call from a mom who was shopping for a sleeping bag.  She had two in her hands and had to decide: a 30 degree bag in synthetic fibers or a 32 degree bag with some down.  He went with the first.  Nothing like waiting to the last minute.

Mark called and is very excited that he will be able to backpack with us for most of the hikes after all!  That's good news.  He has such a demanding schedule and his wife is very ill, so we are fortunate that he can steal away for a few days to be with the kids.

I cut back the tall grasses and then raked in the backyard for hours. I hauled about ten loads of leaves, grass and branches out to the compost pile.  Now the garden looks terrific!

A magnolia on Chestnut St.