Thursday, June 4, 2009

Hello,
I thought I should update this with stories from our summer adventures.
We are camp hosting at Fr. Hennepin State Park on Mille Lacs Lake in Isle MN for the month of June. Aside from Itasca State Park it is our favorite park. Our jobs are mostly to sell wood - we also go get it and stack it at our site and to make sure all the bathrooms are stocked with toilet tissue. We also get wood for our camp fires. When trees are cut down the wood is used for the camp hosts - which is very nice. We use a golf cart to bring it to our site.
We don't get to keep the cart at our site. The former park manager has retired and the Kathio State Park manager takes care of both parks. He has different rules. So we go down to the maintenance building and pick up the cart and do our thing. We check bathrooms at the beach, group camp, boat landing, campgrounds and picnic grounds. Some are pit toilets. Thankfully we don't have to clean the bathrooms or the fish cleaning shack - they have a cleaning crew. We also pick up the tags that campers leave on the post and pick up any garbage they leave at their site and report if their firepits need cleaning out.
Aside from the cleaning crew there is only 1 full time maintenance, grass mower in the park. It's a shame as the limited budget is really limiting what can be done.

More tomorrow........Sharon

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