Welcome to the latest Camp Dorothy session, which began on Thanksgiving and ends tomorrow afternoon. This report gives an overview of nine items essential for a stellar Camp Dorothy experience. Please refer to the above to see a picture of each item.
- A comfy couch where no one but the camp namesake can sit.
- Comfy pillows to make the couch conform to the stature of the camp namesake who would be more comfortable sitting in a different, smaller comfy chair, but refuses because she already claimed the couch and change is hard.
- A box of tissues at the ready.
- A crossword puzzle book at hand with more waiting patiently in a suitcase in case they’re needed.
- The TV remote for tuning into weather reports, The Price Is Right, Jeopardy, Judge Judy, Wheel of Fortune, and Antiques Roadshow with a minimum of effort.
- A wastebasket so used tissues, pencil lead, and eraser crumbs can be disposed of without leaving the comfy couch.
- An snuggly afghan, needed partly because the hot flash-prone camp director keeps the house too darn cold for the camp’s namesake and partly because the afghan was crocheted by the camp namesake’s mother and brings back sweet memories.
- The ottoman normally used by the camp director, who graciously sacrificed her comfort for the happiness of her sainted mum.
- The Harding County History book, which offers hours of entertaining reading about hardy immigrant pioneers who homesteaded in the remote regions of northwest South Dakota from the 1880s through the Great Depression. The photographs of grim-faced Scandinavians standing in front of tiny sod hovels also makes the camp’s namesake grateful for her present camp conditions.
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