Back in the day...

For the last week or so, my office has become the central processing center for a local church project. If you need to know anything – ANYTHING – about the First Presbyterian Church of Olney, Illinois just stop by. I can show you photographs and bulletins from the last 150 years. Mixed in the all the liturgical history I found three albums full of photos featuring the local Boy Scout Troop 211. The troop has been sponsored by the church for ever.

Now, back in the day I was a boy scout. Stop laughing. STOP IT! If you don’t stop laughing I will freaking tie you up in a one-handed bowline knot. Ok. So yes, I found numerous pictures of me. Good memories. I loved our camping trips.

Several of the pictures were from Summer Camp. Wow . . . the lake, the dining hall, the road that looped all around the camp . . . I was sitting in my office and it all came back to me. I remembered the Amish girls that worked in the kitchen and how we used to pine over them. I could see the road that looped around the entire camp. It started at the dining hall, then dropped down the hill to the lake before rounding into the main camp sites. Just past site #7 the road turned to the shooting range and then rounded to the parking lot and back to the dinning hall. There were the endless nights at the campfire, the bad jokes from our leaders, and cold mornings at the lake.

Ah, I could go on forever. It was nice to take a break today and step back into a very nice period of my childhood.