Never A Dull Moment At Mountain Camp

This bus brought a group of Lowes Employees to our RMV camp this morning. 

(Lowes are big donors to Easter Seal)

I believe the pictures will speak for themselves!!!

They actually got it out using boards under the wheels and digging out the front.

I wonder about that Please Drive Safely part. LOL

Take Care on the Journey

~Linda

Push America - Great People!

Volunteers at Rocky Mountain Village this week.
See their website at http://www.pushamerica.org

These volunteers travel the USA helping and building at camps for those with disabilities! They are at our Easter Seal Rocky Mountain Village this week. But first, they served breakfast to all the campers and staff this morning. Great guys!!! 

PS: They even have their pose for photos.

See their website at pushamerica.org or http://www.pushamerica.org/ 

(Linda Meikle photo) 

Published with permission 

Take Care on the Journey

~Linda

Picture Without A Camera

Funny thing happened in the pool at camp last Friday.  


It was announced all week that we were having the staff group picture at 12:30 after the campers checked out on Friday.


So we all "gathered" in the pool at 12:30 as instructed!!!  Smiles everyone!!!  Put on your funny faces

!!! AND THEN !!!

Well....there was no camera or photographer!!!

Guess no one had thought of that???

Another counselor got out of the pool and hurried off on a bike to go get his camera.

While he was gone, I got out of my pool and ran to my cabin to get my iPhone I had left there.

These are the photos I took with my iPhone while we all waited for a camera and photographer.

The lady holding the beach ball is the other RN I work with.
Standing next to her is the camp director who is leaving next Friday.
In the "formal" picture, I'm standing the open spot shown here.

Remember, don't look for me.

I'm taking the "unofficial" picture.

UPDATE;

The picture that was finally taken with a counselor's camera didn't come out. 

It was too out of focus, so we have to reschedule the photo shoot.

I offered my professional, wide angle, camera, but the director says they have found someone with a camera.  Why do I doubt the next shoot will be any better.

Take Care on the Journey,

And always remember the camera when you're doing a photo shoot.

~Linda

From Dawn Until Midnight

Anyone with a sleep problem should come to camp for a couple weeks. I truly believe the insomnia will be cured! Most are up by 6 a.m. and no one gets near a bed until after midnight. Sometimes I sneak to my bed fully dressed about 10 p.m. with the camp radio and emergency phone on my pillow, and my ear to the door in case someone walks in calling, "Nurse!". 
It's so busy that one doesn't think about sleep until they crash and almost forget to set the alarm clock for 0600!  That, if the nurse doesn't get called out several times during the night!
While we haven't had a pressing problem so far, everyone thinks their problem is pressing!
This morning, I arrived at the first cabin for early morning meds given by tube feeding. The little camper was still getting a breathing treatment, so they asked me to come back later. I went back to the Health Lodge (my cabin) only to discover that my applesauce (to disguise pills in) had spilled all over the bottom of the large medicine container and had soaked through all the various bags of campers meds! 
Then a counselor ask to 'borrow' the golf cart just at med time. She said she would be back in five minutes. I should have just said no. When she finally returned, she parked the wrong way, and I had to take more time to get all turned around again.
Arriving late to breakfast, everyone wanted to be first. To my dismay, I had forgotten all the bottles of Miralax (for constipation), and had to return to the cabin for that. 
Before breakfast was over, one of the sweet little 6-year old campers came up to show me that his colostomy bag had come loose and BM was all over his pants. That was a half-hour process back at the cabin. 

Here is a photo of the breakfast I did NOT get to eat. But it sure was a nice spread!

Actually, the cook saved a plate of food for me. It was just that I wasn't really hungry after all that.  LOL  And, there was already a line at the door for cough med, new bandaids, Tylenol for headaches, DayQuil for coughs and runny noses, mylanta for stomach aches, cream for sunburns, salve for rashes, and more...

Here are a few photos I've grabbed along the way here at camp...

Perfect top of the mountain beyond the cabin.

There's a picnic table center/right.

Entrance to "Jake's Place" where we enjoy our meals.

Take Care on the Journey,
~Linda

Early Morning Cat's Eyes

They say we have bob cats, mountain lions (are they the same?), and of course, BEARS all around us here near Evergreen, CO.  They live here. We are camping in their back yard. So, I'm always mindful of that when I'm out and about during the night to visit a sick camper, or taking early morning medicine around to the cabins while riding in my MASH CART.


In the place of pots and pans to clang and clash and scare the wild animals from their own back yard, I simply wear a whistle and carry a big flashlight to light up the eyes of any creature of nature who might be 'watching' me. So far, all big animals have left me alone.  LOL


For you, I've taken a few early morning photos to describe the quiet peacefulness of the first dawn. No photo shop or editing in order to give you the early morning feel.  Then lastly, campers (unidentified) get ready to leave camp on Friday. 


The last two photos show my co-nurse, Callie, RN, - wearing the brown hat. She's busy checking out the campers while I'm taking pictures.  

YOU CAN CLICK EACH PHOTO FOR A CLOSER-UP VIEW.

All is still and quiet as I pass early morning meds to each cabin.

No "eyes" in this wilderness.

The MASH Cart for the nurses! I got out and took the picture as no one was around this early in the morning.

The path makes many circles around the grounds.

Complete with hot showers and soft bunks.
Sorry, I backed into the bench and broke it...

Early morning sunrise on the far mountain.

Each cabin has a name. This is Ponderosa Cabin.

This is "snack time" in the afternoon. Every one meets at 3 p.m. for music and food!

We can post pictures after the campers have left. this was last week's campers.

Campers saying goodbye until next year! A new group comes in each Sunday.

Funny Nurse Callie (blue jacket, brown hat) has a blast at camp. She's great to work with!

Smile Callie!

More later!  Titled, "Oh My God Road."

Take Care on the Journey,
~Linda