Fall Camp - Lighthouse Girls Visit

      

     
While at fall camp two of my dearest childhood friends came for a visit. I know they were so shocked to see the damage MSA has done so far, I know there is still so much to come. While growing up I was always the strong and tough one.  

      

 We spent so much time together when young.  We played,explores and laughed through childhood as we grew up together. Their late father was Low Point Lighthouse Keeper and their mom is an amazing dedicated wife and mother of four and most times me.  Their mom fixed many injuries, egos, and a great cook.. Their place was my home away from home. They took me on many family drives, circus events and so much more.

       Their dad took us up in this Lighthouse quite often, I remember nervously   climbing the three flights of stairs, passing the floating light on our way to the catwalk; we felt on top of the world here. This light floated in mercury, which would be changed once a month. This was before we knew how bad it is for our health, we often played with mercury and when they came to change this they would dump it in the ground I have often wondered if this was linked to the MSA?

  

        Our favorite memory is when their dad would mow the lawn and we would run around in our bare feet. Our feet would be all green and we went to beach to clean them. We had lots of laughs remembering the good ole days!

Fall Camp Out On The Mira

       

     It is funny how when our prayers are answered, in a way different than we ask, that we sometimes do not recognize them as being answered. Sometimes we just have to look and listen. This is what happened during fall camp. During the summer, Hunny and I tried our best to arrange a cottage weekend, but everything was booked. During fall camp, my sister’s neighbor came for a visit and while there she offered us her cottage.

      

    When we went to the cottage, she greeted us at the door and to our surprise we realized that the “cottage” was a house on a river. What a view to enjoy my morning coffee by… the fall leaves were in beautiful colour all around and the loons were on the river. I took a picture to send to Hunny to show him what he was missing.

     I was treated like a princess during the entire three days we were there. I was even an honorary member of the Red Hat Society for a day. While I do not recommend silk pajamas worn on silken sheets, we all had a good laugh at me sliding around the bed in the ones provided by our hostess.  Once they got me settled in bed, they barricaded me there with a chair, for my safety…they said.

       

      We enjoyed sitting by the fire on the deck (our hostess had a special stove for this purpose), watching the gorgeous sunset and just being in nature. Because of MSA I could not walk to appreciate the surrounding nature, but at this cottage nature surrounded me.