WEDDING DAY IS ALMOST HERE!

OCTOBER 22ND . .WEDDING DAY . . .BROWN COUNTY STATE PARK, NASHVILLE INDIANA    Weather forecast:  Partly Sunny  High of 59

Wedding in Brown County, Indiana October 22, 2011

Our wedding day is fast approaching.   Red has been busy taking over the yard work and is enjoying the beautiful fall days we are having here in Indiana.   Humidity has been LOW and that is just fine with him.   Cool evenings, warm days.   All we need is mountains!   Brown County is as close as we will get to mountains here in Indiana.   They are called the Hills of Brown.    While not at all as majestic as the Rocky Mountain Range they remind us more of New England.   Since it is about 45 miles from where we live and is one of the biggest quaint shopping venues in the State of Indiana . . . not to mention close to Indiana University in Bloomington . . . it is a popular place.   We are praying for the beautiful fall weather and colors to continue! 

Wayne Arrives in Indiana to prepare for the wedding!

Red actually left Montana for Indiana on Saturday as Friday evening my teenage son disabled my only car by bottoming out my car after passing through an historic covered bridge in Rush County, Indiana at 45 MPH instead of the posted 25 MPH.   Red came straight to Indiana (safe and sound)  instead of visiting family in Kansas and Illinois as I had no vehicle.  He was able to assess the damage and after much deliberation helped me pick out a new vehicle.  He came just in time for some beautiful fall colors . . I hope some of them stay for our Oct. 22nd wedding!   See the announcement attached!  We hope Charlie is enjoying himself.  He was camphost at Holland Lake for 17 years!! 

Red's Last Week at the campground

Red spent the week tidying up the campground and taking a hike to the falls.   He took this spectacular picture on that hike.   He also took a GPS reading which was interesting!   He heads out on Sunday morning as Charlie Jantzen takes over camphost duties on Saturday. 

Welcome back, Charlie

As the camping season draws to a close (Holland Lake Campground will officially close on 10/11) . . . we welcome back Charlie Jantzen to fill in for Red for a few weeks.   Red heads back east to begin a new adventure as a married man but will return next Spring when the campground is thawed out enough for camping activity!  He will start getting restless about April 1st to hit the open road and go back to the country he loves! 

Charlie served as camphost at Holland Lake Campground for 17 seasons before relocating his family to Montana from New York and taking over the concessionaire/management duties for the National Park Service.  As his two children, Leona and Chuck, continue that family tradition Charlie looks forward to building new memories here at the campground.   All of his old friends and those new ones he will make are delighted to have him there even for a couple of weeks.

Here is a recent picture of Charlie with a Hwy 83 casualty . . a 2 year old black bear about 75 lbs that frequently visited the Swan Lake Campground.  This is something everyone hates to see as our human world invades the wildlife's territory.

Mountain Lake Mist

Beautiful morning when Red woke up this morning.  He went out to take care of campground clean up before his camp host luncheon at noon.   As the sun rose it revealed the beautiful mist rising up over the water with the reflection still mirrored in the lake.  He really captured the beauty of Holland Lake when many are not up to see it!  It is views like this that keep our loyal guests coming back year after year.

A Little Visitor but a big Mooch!

A couple of weeks ago Red had a little visitor and he gave him some scraps from his Hobo pie.   The black squirrels in Montana are very small and as Red says "don't have much meat on them!"   But they are sure fun to watch.   A few minutes later he heard a large THUD coming from the storage shed.   He investigated and an entire jar of peanut butter was rolling on the floor and it appeared to him the little mooch was trying to make off with his can of peanut butter!   So the peanut butter jar got put in the camper.  Then this last week one of the nice campers left Red a sack of cookies on the picnic table and the little thief got into the package and took a bite out of one.  Red left that cookie for the squirrel but the rest he put in the camper for safe keeping.  It looks like the third week of September is going to be beautiful . . . sunshine through the weekend and high 84 and lows 47.   Another beautiful week in the campground.  The lake is uncrowded and anyone can enjoy canoeing on the lake.   Red reports no fall color to be seen yet.  He will be leaving the campground in two weeks on 9/30.