Resident News Picnic at Suz`s, Lunch at Miller`s House, and Art at

Resident News
Picnic at Suz’s, Lunch at Miller’s House, and Art at the Museum
Something New in Dining
Residents, we’d like to have your input
for our Employee Recognition Program.
If you have experienced any staff
members in any department doing an
excellent job or going “above and
beyond” to serve you, please inform the
Administration by completing a short
form at the Front Desk. The forms
are located at the left side above the
Counter. Thank you for your help!
Menu Meeting
with Chef Brenda
Tuesday, July 8
at 10:30 a.m.
in the Tulip Room
Bring your ideas!
Starting in July, we will be having a
Sunday Brunch Buffet at Noon in the
Dining Room and Garden Room on
the 4th Sunday of the month.
Please check your Activity Calendar
for the exact date each month.
We are asking any and all residents
and staff to bring in one of their own
baby pictures to the Activity office.
We will make a copy and then hang all
the pictures on a bulletin board for our
Baby Identity Contest.
The person who can identify the most
babies will win a Dining Room gift
certificate. In case of a tie, we will
hold a drawing. Please bring your
picture to Activities by July 1st.
“Chicken Foot” Dominoes
is coming to the Friday
night game time:
beginning July 18
at 6:15 p.m.
in the Garden Room
Anyone interested in
playing, learning, or
helping others play the
game is most welcome!
See you Friday, July 18!
Matt Barber
will stop in Evansville on his
National Tour to return for his
annual July 4th engagement
at Holiday Village. His
performance begins at 7 p.m.
Afterward, we'll be going to the
Fireworks on the Ohio River!
Hatfield vs. McCoy Party
Resident Reflections on Camping
Dorothy Alexander
My husband I were camping at a national park somewhere in
Oregon or Washington, and we set up a tent where we would eat
and then went to sleep in the car. In the morning we were
shocked to find that somebody had taken a knife to our tent,
slashing it open from top to bottom. We were really upset
because campers are usually pretty decent people. You can leave all kinds of
belongings out, and nobody ever bothers them, but this time somebody had.
When we saw a park ranger driving by, we hailed him and told him that
somebody had slashed our tent in the night. When he looked at it, he started
laughing.
“Your somebody,” he said, “is a big, ole bear. See these paw prints on either
side of the tear? He just ripped the tent open with one swipe of his claws. He
must’ve been after something to eat.”
The bear hadn’t gotten anything more than a bowl of cherries, but it chilled
us to think about what had happened -- while we were sleeping as though we
were safe in our beds, a powerful, savage bear had been only a few feet away.
Jane Dennis
One day in 1960 my husband came home after being with some
friends and asked me, “What do you think about camping?”
I said, “Larry Dennis, after you slept on the ground all across
France and Germany during the war, I didn’t think you’d ever want
to do that again.”
Well, he said it wouldn’t be like that. So we bought a one-room
tent, and later graduated to a two-room cabin tent that was big enough for our
four children. They slept in the back room and couldn’t get out except by
stepping on us. Thankfully, none of them walked in their sleep. The cabin tent
was really nice, but it took a lot of work to set up. So we ended up buying a
trailer. We’d camp every summer weekend around Evansville with nine other
couples, and on our vacations, we’d camp across Canada and the United States.
My husband and the two youngest kids really enjoyed it, but our two oldest girls
and I would’ve rather slept at home.
One morning after thirty years of camping, my husband woke up and said,
“I think I’m going to sell the trailer.” And I thought, “Goody, goody!”
Staff Reflections on Camping
Elizabeth Hatcher
My husband and I love camping. Why would we want to leave
all the comforts of home to go sleep on the ground? To answer
that question, I’d have to say that our lives at home are
comfortable, but they are typically noisy and hectic. Camping
puts us into a quieter, simpler life where we can better
remember who God is and who He wants us to be, and we can
forget about what the world says we should be. Under the wide open skies
we can relax and feel the breeze on our faces and watch the water moving
across the lake. We love the beauty of the natural world, its astonishing
perfection and variety from the tiniest flower petals to the distant stars in the
night sky. It makes us begin to realize the beauty and goodness of God who
created all this for us to enjoy.
My husband and I have hopes that someday when we’re retired, we could
have a camping ministry. We‘d like to sell everything, buy a camper, and
travel around the country seeing and enjoying the beauty of His creation and
sharing the Good News of Christ with people we meet. Combining our love of
Jesus with our love of the great outdoors seems a perfect way to show our
gratitude for all He does for us.
Riannon Mabrey
My family -- which includes my husband Jason, our two
children, and our dog -- does “primitive” camping. We use no
electricity and take only water and a bundle of dry kindling.
We start our campfire with a flint and only bring the dry
kindling in case we can’t find any dry wood. We fish for our
food, catching mostly catfish and blue gills. We do bring a bit
of food just in case we don’t catch anything, but we normally end up bringing
it home again. We all love camping, and Jason and I think it’s a good way to
teach our kids that life isn’t about iPods and other gadgets. We enjoy showing
them how to build up a fire from kindling so it will support big logs, or how to
fish with cricket bait and clean and cook the catch. When we’re all sitting
together around the fire underneath the stars -- sharing that experience -- we
feel closer to nature, closer to each other, and closer to God. It’s wonderful
and strengthens us as individuals and as a family.