Week at Ives Run

Good morning. 

 

Fall Colors

Monday 10-8-12 we worked on the stone walls around the visitors center.  It was a chilly day and by the end of it we were glad to get back inside and get a hot shower. 

 



Campground Tree



Tuesday was more of the same work, but it was a much warmer day.  We actually finished the stone walls and worked on raking up some piles of leaves that some college kids raked up and left lay.  It takes about 25 min. just to get the gator so we can work, so we acutally got about 6 hours in on Tuesday.

 

Wednesday we cleaned up the flower beds (cutting down the dead stuff) and only got in about 2.5 hours.  We then headed into Mansfield for gas at Sheetz (.60 off a gallon) and had dinner at the pizza shop.  It was kind of a slow day for us, but it seems to be that way a lot of days.

 





Bull on the Loose

Thursday we took the day off and headed to town.  Brad needs sneakers, laundry needed done and so did the grocery shopping.  We left camp about 10:00 and didn't get back until 3:30.   We then went for a drive over the back roads, heading to the VFW for wings.  It was a beautiful ride, nice views, and a run away bull, needless to say I took his picture from inside the car.   

Mountain Top View

Friday we spent most of the day trying to get a gator that didn't have a flat tire.  First they replaced the tire with a tire off a parts gator, but till we got about 3 of the camp sites cleaned up, the tire was flat.  Dina came into the cg and picked me up to go get the car, and she spoke with the maintenance people again.  This time they took a tire off one of the maintenance workers gators, followed me back and replaced the tire again.  All this taking about 2-3 hours, but we finally had a gator that worked and we finished cleaning the camp sites.  We then headed over to Kate and Tony's to hunt.  I saw two doe on my way into my spot and didn't see anything else until I stood up to leave, then I saw three deer run and a deer grunted behind me.....ugh.  We headed back home for grilled cheese and soup, it was getting cold and they are calling for a hard freeze.

Well, Saturday morning we got to 22 degrees and frozen water pipes.  The pipes in the cg froze solid and it took until about 9:30 for them to thaw out.  We then showered and headed into Wellsboro for a perscription for Brad and stopped at Dunhams for lunch.  Kate called, her and Annette were headed in to town, so I met up with them and we went shopping, while Brad headed back to camp to hang out with the guys.  After that us girls headed to the Moose and ended up not getting back to camp until about 6:30-7:00.  Annette and I had something to eat, then Brad and I headed home....the hunters had no luck again today. 

Sunday morning we got up to 60 degree temps., what a change.  They are having a trail challenge today (4 mile run/walk through the mountain), so we have to meet up with Dina about 11:30 to see what our job is going to be.  Brad and I got our jobs assignements which is to stop traffic into and out of the cg when the race started, which ended up taking us about about a whole 1/2 hour.  We then walked down to the finish line and watched about half of the people come in.  We walked back to camp and Brad decided to go on a scouting trip in the game lands behind the cg.  I took him down and dropped him off and picked him up about 1 1/2 later.  We had chicken wraps, watched some TV, and swept up Lady bugs all evening,  I guess that 74 degree day brought them out.  

Today Brad got up and headed over to the farm.  Someone wanted to talk with him about Christmas trees and I'm just hanging out, working on the blog and enjoying another warm day.  It is 66 degrees at 10:30, but they are calling for rain later....hope it holds out until tonight.

Diane