need to trim my fingernails

at brigadoon, thursdays are cookout days b/c it's the cooks' night off. to most brigadooners, thursday afternoons are about campfires & hotdogs, oranges & s'mores. everyone's relaxed, nothing to do all evening. maybe hike in the river, sleep outside [as if those cabana aren't outside already], sit around the fire & sing & talk, read a book, play elbow tag. for the cooks, it's a chance to go into the city, but that's something i was never interested in doing. with no cooking duties, there's nothing to do but enjoy brigadoon. find a lifeguard and maybe go for a swim. take shower and put on clothes that might stay clean for more than 5 mins. gather in the kitchen at dusk for pimento cheese sammiches with nursie and whoever else shows up... passing through the kitchen between jaunts in the cattle truck hauling the little ones off to hall's falls, the rock house, roe's cabin, the d&m. hey, how ya doin'? how're those sunshiners? indians? mighty ark? sit a spell and have a sammich. sitting around the kitchen with the ovens off, chatting, maybe playing cards.

friday morning will start it all over again with classes in action & girls coming in & laundry going out. but thursdays are fabulous.