Weekend

Today will be a bit of a relaxing day after a busy start to the weekend. I'll be putting some hand stitches into both the little four patch quilt (20x20) and adding 21 green circles to the string of beads top where the green peels meet to make those connections look prettier, while watching the F1 race this afternoon with my son.

 I spent the weekend at an adult Girl Scout Encampment and got to bring my daughter with me who worked as a 'minion' assisting at the rotations and helping in the kitchen. We were slated to leave Sunday morning, but there were some plumbing issues in the cabin the teens were staying at, and the girl was exhausted and popped a migraine headache Saturday evening. We headed out after the bonfire and made our smores before we packed up and headed home for the evening. I think we got home about 9:15, as camp is about 25 minutes from us and thankfully there was no delays on I75 for the one exit to get home. 

This was my view early Saturday morning out of the new units that I had never stayed in called Firefly. 3 units were built on the side of a lake they worked on reclaiming from a marsh over the last 10 years. It was an open unit built on the second level with 8 bunk beds in a big room. Then a bathroom section closed off with a sliding barn door with cubbie holes for 16, 3 showers on one side with 2 sinks and 3 bathrooms on the other side with 2 sinks. Underneath the sleeping section, is a screened in 'unit house' with picnic tables and a storage section. I think it was the nicest place I'd stayed in on camp grounds. Thankfully, they installed AC units in each of them, and they were working. It is still in the mid 80's here in Florida during the day although it is getting down into the low 70's and mid 60's overnight. 

My first rotation was doing a craft with wet tissues. We got to play with paint, stencils and try a new technique. It was interesting. Not sure I'd do it again but was fun. 

Our next rotation was archery. I am right handed but ambidextrous. When I play mini golf, I do it left handed. Normally I maybe hit the target once. I tried shooting left this year, and that felt much better. Of the 6 shots, I hit the target 5 times! We (me and Lynne) skipped the next morning rotation and stayed at archery. The group my girl was helping with had off time, so I had asked if they could shoot, and the instructor said sure! So, I had them come out and they did get to shoot. Em used the harder bow for the first time and hit the target a couple of times. After lunch and some down time, I had 2 sessions. The first one was learning how to use a compass and we found points around the Cricket field area. The last session was letterboxing and Geocaching. I opted out of searching for them around the camp (600 acres) as I was helping at dinner and needed to be in the kitchen.

We headed home after the fire and our smores. They had another option this year I want to try, but did not as they were taking a lot longer. I guess it was a crescent roll, wrapped the end point around the end of a small 2 inchish dowell then around the end part and squeeze it to the end. Then roast to cook it over the fire. When done, it should slide off and be a little cup which they added some pie filling to for a dessert. They had apple, cherry and peach. I want to give those a try at home and see how they are!

Friday night they had all kinds of crafts out for people to try. Someone had brought the compass clips with paracord as their swap. Emily and I tried that, she was much better at it than me! This was my 2nd attempt with help from her. She looked up a video on how to do it and hers came out great with orange and grey. There was also lots of diamond art coasters to do. Those were fun. I did not start one of those until close to 10PM, and so mine did not get finished. It was fun though, so I'll open the project I have in the sewing room now and work on it!

Time to throw in some laundry and get a few things done to prep for the week. I'll visit the links later tonight and see what fun hand work is being done around the world at Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching.