December Ramblings

The December AWP was this past weekend with six attendees.  However despite that small turn out a fair amount of work got done.  The two Andy's worked on finishing the siding on the new Trading Post as well as made an attempt at hanging doors (which I think Ken helped out on).  Gary and Greg continued lacing electrical conduits and wires throughout the TP.  Slowly but surely that project will be done before you know it.....of course I have been saying that for several months, but we are getting close.  We had a great turkey dinner on Friday evening and a roast on Saturday night all of which was cooked on the Traegger.  Good eating!!  It was a good crowd and I found the whole weekend very relaxing even though I had to get up early to go to a meeting on Sunday.

For a good part of Saturday afternoon Ken, Greg, Gary and I sat down with the architect to finish up our design and development drawings.  We have finally reached this milestone after numerous meetings and e-mails.  Next will come construction documents and then............well, who knows.  As the song goes, "I said honey, we ain't got money......"  We did however, receive word that we may be the recipients of an interesting donation from a local business.  I need to find out if I can share that info with all of you but you will be pleased as many of you unknowingly helped us out.  We still have some site construction issues ahead of us, like where are we going to put the delivery truck roundabout and what we are going to put on the loading dock.  However these are very minimal when compared to how far we have come.

I am always proud of my staff as they shine both on the "field" as well as off.  The following is a link to a guest column that Ian Engelbeck wrote for the Seattle Times regarding student responsibility with regards to their education.  Good job Ian.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2016960751_guest08engelbeck.html

Applications went out this past weekend to our previous staff, CITs and to those scouts who took time to fill out an information card (legibly) last summer.  I think we sent out about 300-400 applications and I am hoping that some of those will come back to us filled out.  Our interview process begins in February and goes through March.  We have a great season ahead of us so hopefully we will have a lot of returning staff.

I have been watching the statistics on our home webpage and I am surprised at the number of visits that page gets every day.  We have been averaging about 70-80 new visits each day.  Perhaps that may include some people who come back on the same day, but still that is quite a lot.  During the summer months we can get as many as 300 visits but during the off season it usually hangs around 20 each day.  I am not one to complain.....I just need to make that front page more "exciting."