The Lady on the Mountain

Patty is her name she has lived here her entire life, Has three kids that are about my age. I am privileged  to work along side of her! At first things where a little Rocky. That being she maybe said five or six words total in an entire day to me. Which I would then compensated for by talking ALL day long. I tried to ask questions but it was always a yes, no or an I don't know.

A LITTLE MORE.....
Patty being in house keeping for the last 13 ish years, her diet has not changed a soda in the morning and a LARGE bag of chips for snack and another soda or tea for the afternoon. One week she brought a bag of chips and cottage cheese and eat that all week long. Things finally started to change and she started sharing things and telling me stories of back in the day. She started talking about her kids to me and her grandson who she watches almost every night so that her daughter can work. Patty smokes and thinks no one knows, but really EVERYONE knows. She lives near camp and the only time she does not work is if there is snow on the ground. She has a tanning bed on here front porch and tans everyday for 10 mins. She will randomly say " what time is it?" and as I look for the time " NO Karen is SMOKING time" and we both end up laughing...  I feel as if I could talk about her for ever. She has come out of her shell.

As I moved out here and I trying to see why God has placed me out here has been some what of a challenge. Yes that is where I live ha ha. But in all seriousness being able to work along side Patty has been awesome. Watching her change  and be someone completely  new that know one has seen. I have been told Patty never talked to anyone or laughed, she was not really even seen much. Now we spend most of the day Laughing or she is just Laughing at me some times. But it is truly a blessing to get to know and serve with My friend.  


One morning this last week I was late to work and did not sleep much, she found me and said, "I thought today was going to be a rough one and I made you some coffee. I thought you would want some"! As I turned around I said " thanks Patty I really appreciate you"! When I turned back around she said" Karen I really appreciate you to and enjoy being around you"........ I wanted to jump all around and scream but I held it all in and said Thanks.

I hope you can see just a little bit of who My friend Patty is!

Here is another Car Story

Well as most of you know today was the last day for snow tires. So I woke up at 5:45 to take my car in to Madras to get my tires changed. I dropped my car off at 7:15, the guy then went on to tell me that my car would be ready at 12:30...... After walked around, through, across Madras. My car was still not ready. I walked over 8 miles and had 3 coffee's. I believe that next year Ill get my tires off EARLY!

The Runs

The Runs is where we go to town " Madras, OR" and go to almost all the fast food places in town. Which includes Sonic, Mcdonalds, Toco bell and Dariy Queen some eat at evey resturant and others just eat at one.

Well on this Runs trip we went to all of the above and we always eat at Dariy Qween at the big round table. That  we like to call our VIP Table. Well anyways the Interns and some other friends and staff where leaving DQ and I realized that I did not have my keys! I had left them in the ignition and the doors where unlocked!

This is a habit that I do at camp becuase know one ever really needs to lock there doors or hide there keys! Good thing no one stole my car!

Driving Stick :)

This week I found out I really do need to learn how to drive stick. The last time I had driven a stick shift, I was driving my Dads Model A and I remember stopping at a hill and then stalled it so I was going down hill backwards! It ended in me crying, so you could say I was not really excited to try again even though its several years later! So this week I had a range of teachers Jason, Keri, Katie, Megan, and Cara! Driving this time came somewhat easy and you could now say that I can drive stick as long as there are no hills! I think learning how to drive stick was fun. And its a good thing because I will end up driving the camp trucks every week for vending. 
Well the other day Cara and I Had to go to the office and pick up boxes for the store. So we went to get the camp truck and the one we normally take was getting worked on. So we took another truck to run things around camp. When we got back to the Store one of our boss's came in and told us we had taken someones personal truck! We had NO idea! It was kind of funny because they had said that the person driving did NOT know how to drive stick.  Well I never killed it but it looks like I'm not as seamless driving stick as I thought and Ill have to keep practicing!