Wildflower in the Sun: The Gulley

First off, I do apologize for no post yesterday. I am hoping all these wonderful pictures will make up for it. It was 9:30pm when we got home last night and we had quite the full day. Needless to say, went straight to bed.

We spent half the day Friday doing some Farmhouse work, which I haven't gone into much detail about. This Fall our project for work has been fixing up this old house on camp. The A-Team which we oversee, typically lives there and we turn the place into a commercial kitchen where we pack out all our camping type food from. Make sense? Then we had to fight our way through the crowds of people to make sure everything was set for the climbing wall. The wall is open all weekend during LEAF along with the waterfront. We got it all set and on our way home noticed the Gulley Washer going absolutely crazy in all the wind! The Gulley is this huge awesome slide that goes into the lake. We had really bad winds yesterday and it was becoming extremely dangerous because metal pieces from the Gulley were breaking right off of it. Not good when there are 1-2,000 people walking around camp.

Something had to be done and of course Danger was right on it. Nick Patton was his accomplice and many others along the way. We thought we could just tie this slide down, but one good wind ripped the rope right from the guys hands and took the eyebolt right out of the wooden raft it was tied off on. Ouch, rope burn hurts. When we knew just tying it down would't stop the hazard, we decided it had to come off. This is not an easy quick process. I took some pictures along the way to document the events. You will see them in a second.

Then we went to a contra dancing beginners class. Contra is kind of this partnered folk dance/line dancing thing. It's pretty awesome and extremely popular in our area. LEAF is known for their contra dancing. Bryce and I and many others friends went contra dancing yesterday evening and I must say, we didn't do too bad! The only thing bad was all the spinning involved and we are kind of an easily motion sicked kind a family. It was great though and we really like watching the really good people dancing.

Then we had some dinner and went to go watch the Honey Cutters play. They were pretty good, but we were feeling pretty wind blown and tired from the day so we went home afterwards and went to bed. What a great day! I get really irritated on these weekends and feel claustrophobic from everything going on, but it has been so nice to have so many great friends in town. They have made the weekend worth the crowd and the invasion.

Here is a lot of pictures. I will explain some of them. We have been enjoying today also. More music, people watching, fiddle contest, and much more. Have a great weekend!