I usually get up pretty early. I think it is true that the older you get, the less sleep you need. I do best on about 6 1/2 hours I think. Laurie needs eight or she gets cranky. Bed at 11:00 and up at 5:30…that’s pretty perfect…except I need a catch up day every week Read more...
Posts Tagged ‘air band’
Tree Day and Air Band!
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The sounds of screen doors slamming…the occasional squeal, with the loud cacophony of crickets in the background are music to my ears. When I’m old and gray, I hope they have screen doors in the nursing home when they wheel me out into the hallway Actually, maybe I won’t be a pain in the rear Read more...
Spark Day and Air Band!
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
I certainly don’t want to jinx things, but one sure sign of a great staff is that I have not seen a homesick tear yet this summer, and we are almost four weeks into the season! An interesting phenomenon with homesickness…the campers who struggle with it at the start of a session are usually the Read more...
Tree Day Activities and Air Band!
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Activities are split into “five and five” during the August session…five meet on M-W-F, which we call Pine Day activities, and five meet on T-Th-Sa, and we call them Tree Day activities. Today girls completed their activity schedule with their first Tree day activities. It was a busy day getting started…again, we like to hit Read more...
Appearing On Stage! AIRBAND!
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Airband is one of those evening programs that probably just wouldn’t translate to another environment. There are a lot of those things at Illahee. About ten years ago, a couple of guys who grew up going to camp, (who are hyper-intelligent and had successful careers on Wall Street in finance), decided that it made sense Read more...