8 more days!

Can I get a Hallelujah and an Amen! I have 8 more days of school left and then I'm jobless for the summer. I don't know how we did it in Manitoba by going to the end of June. This getting out in May is nice but I hate having to go back the 18th of August!

Once school gets out next week, (I'm so ready to sleep in!) we'll be going up into the Big Horns with some friends in their 5th wheel camper. I know, we're really roughing it, but we are going to also haul some horses and day ride and fish for the 3 day weekend. I think we'll have a lot of fun.
The first week in June, I said I would help at the annual Rodeo Bible Camp in Meeteetse for 3 days. That's always so much fun, with "church" under a tent and horses and rodeo events every day and seeing all the kids. It's a lot of work, but a lot of fun. Hopefully the weather is better than all the rain we got last year.

I've also found out about a local camp south of Powell, that needs some help with their 5 camps they host during the summer. Some are day camps, horse camps and girls and boys camps. It's run by a Christian couple who opens it up to some of the troubled youth or come from troubled homes. We actually met this couple when Jason and I went to the Walk to Emmaus. They both went through it with us. We were hoping to move our horses to their place, and we got to talking and Ron drove us around and showed us the camp. It's a roughing it kind of camp. Winkler Bible Camp is paradise compared to this camp. The number of kids they take is also not as many as some of the more established camps. They have 3 big shed size buildings with bunks, out houses for bathrooms and a black barrel filled with water for showers. The Kitchen is an open air building with just a roof and the swimming pool is a pond with fish. Ron said the kids have so much fun and they swim so often that they never take showers. They also float the river on inner tubes, and get off right in front of the camp. They also have horses which they take out on trails and ride in the arena. His wife was happy to hear that I might be interested in helping because they need more adults for the girls camp and just more help in general. What's great for me is that it is also close to town so I wouldn't have to drive too far.

We also have a possibility of hooking up with a local fishing shop that takes out fishing trips, to offer horse riding fishing trips for the day. The owner said he was interested in offering such a service and a fishing guide friend of ours was enthusiastic about the idea as well. So the idea right now is for people to book the ride, we would come in and supply lunch and horses. We would take the guide, and the fisherman up a trail for 2 hrs riding and then get off and fish, eat lunch, fish some more and then head back. The could stay out as late as they want. We did something like this when we worked at the guest lodge 4 summers ago. We think it could be fun and some money could be made. What a great way to spend the summer, riding and fishing in the mountains.

I also want to try my hand at having a vegetable garden this summer. I now have the space to do a small one. I bought my first tomato plant over the weekend and it's sitting on my window sill. I must visit the nursery soon so I can get the rest of my small list. I also need to get some flowers and some shrubs, but what to get is a hard decision.

So those are my tentative summer plans.