End of Week 3

Well another week has come to an end and here it is Saturday morning where I'm up at 5:30, in the camp office by 6. I really shouldn't blog on Saturday mornings, it kind of taints my perception of the experience, especially since outside of the things I need to get done, no one rarely comes into the office needing anything until after 7.
Whoops, OK, a scoutmaster just came in with a question, so I guess my feeble presence is worth something.
Believe it or not (you may want to sit down to hear this) I have actually cut back on my mountain dew consumption this summer. By the spring I was up to 3 cans a day including one for breakfast and I finally decided that was a bit much, even for me. So now I am down to one can a day, usually in the afternoon. The only exception being Saturdays since I have to get up at such an ungodly hour and there's no way I'm drinking the sludge coffee in the SMG lounge. So yes, it is 6AM, and I am Doing the Dew, but I am generally moving in the right direction in this area. I've also been running a lot, which has been fun, although no matter how cool the weather gets it always seems to be 10 degrees hotter on Bee Mill Road. The other day I was baking so bad halfway through my run that I actually leaned over the barbed wire fence of the Yelvick's pasture to try to steal some of the spray off the sprinkler. Unfortunately I barely got any and the cows appeared to be laughing at me. But I was more worried that the ghost of Old Lady Yelvick was going to jump out of the shadows with a shotgun and blast me into the next county. The price one pays for exercise! On the hottest days I go the other way up the trail behind the dining hall and then down Pulali Point Road, which is mostly shaded.... or I just forget the running and jump in the water and then sit on my deck to stay cool.
It was a pretty lax week for me since I had 4 volunteer commissioners in camp, but this week coming up will be a little more intense. I had time Thursday to go on the "Mike McNellis Camp Parsons History Tour" (the real one, not the black tour) where I learned quite a lot I didn't know about camp's past and the history of the Puget Sound / Hood Canal region. If you ever wonder why I don't travel, that's one major reason: why spend time seeing a place I don't care about for a short time, when I can spend my whole life learning more about the region I love and call home? OK, I digress.
Several people have asked how Anton and I are getting our jobs done up here with such active kiddos, so here's a little sampling of our daily schedule:
8AM Anton goes to the dining hall for breakfast, I usually feed the kids breakfast in the cabin so we don't have to deal with 3(!) dining hall meals for Jack
9AM I come over the camp office while Anton is on kid-duty
10:30 or after the scoutmaster's meeting, we switch and Anton goes to work
12:30 lunch
Afternoon- depends a lot on the day, usually one of us does some work for a while, but it's also a good time to do family stuff like go for a swim or a hike
6PM dinner
Evening-- try to get the kids to bed at a reasonable hour, unless it's a campfire night. Then we either hang out at the cabin or one of us goes socializing.
We've been lucky to have some combination of our parents here off and on, which is great and means the kids are entertained while we go off and do whatever.
Well, off to do my work this morning and then to enjoy 24 hours of peace and quiet in camp (except for my own children, of course). Anton and I have duty crew this weekend but should still have time for some R&R.