Disaster Averted
The campground called the house yesterday, and the minute that I saw the name on the caller I.D., I knew something bad happened. Marc and Lovia don't make a habit of calling off-season to chat. Marc was calling to tell us that one of the huge pine trees that separate our campsite from the road had split in half, with one half laying in the road, and the other about ready to land on our camper or Rodneys boat. Shit on both counts. While the boat is paid for, the camper isn't even a year old to us and we prize both of them.
The point of this post is that by the time that Rodney and Ryan and one of Ryan's friends dressed and drove to the campground, Marc had been at our site and was preparing to move our camper. He offered to help us, even though it really wasn't his problem. So little these days, do people care enough about other people that they are willing to "go the extra mile". I can't tell you just how lucky that we are to have the owners that we have and they are both willing to help out their seasonals however they can. It could be something as minor as stocking something at the store that you would like, or filling a propane tank that's empty and bringing it back to the camper for wimpy women like myself.
Anyway, disaster is averted, the camper is moved to the safety of the field, and the boat is out of harm's way as well. It just gives us more work to do this spring with having to level everything all over again, but it's better that than the other possibility.