Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Catching Up With Catie!


Happy Wednesday Everyone!

This past week, I have been working on getting our presenters for day camp and have been successful with most.  We are very excited to have them join us and our campers to increase our learning.  We will have Stacie Littlejohn teach rug-hooking, Marg Hulls will be leading us in a nature walk on the grounds and we will be having a presentation on the aboriginals that were present in this area before the settlers came.  Angela has gone shopping for final supplies and Kelsey and I will be going over last minute details this week to make sure everything is all ready J

We also had the pleasure this weekend of having a reunion here on the grounds in which Iris Page was present.  I was not working this past Saturday so I unfortunately missed meeting her and all of her wonderful stories, but she is supposed to be visiting us again soon and I hope to be here when that happens.  I love learning more about the house from a primary source!

This past Sunday’s tea was a busy one.  We had a group of seniors visit us from Longworth in London and they were a great bunch.  Lots of stories and memories shared with us of their childhoods and items that they recognized in the museum.  Overall, they said that they had a lovely time and made it into the bus just before it rained.  We also had a mother and daughter visit us for tea from England, which was exciting and Kelsey gave a tour last week to a 99 year old woman who climbed our stairs, up and down, better than we can!  It was a pleasure to meet someone of so many years. 

Lastly, watermelon update!  Our watermelon has grown quite a bit, thanks to the rain and sunshine that we have had recently.  We are looking forward to it growing nice and big so that we can have a delicious, juicy treat soon.

No comments: