Monday - July 7

Bob: Went to pick strawberries with Larry Wiwcher this morning. After that Bonnie went to visit Sister Wiwcher and had a scary experience which I'll let her tell you about. I went looking for a phone plan while Larry went swimming at the local pool. As of now we still don't have a phone plan. Larry and I went to look at a couple lakes and possible boat entry places. Did not get back to camp till after 5.
Filled the truck up with gas - $120.00!! Got 5 gallons of gas for the outboard motor - $32.00. Have no idea how these folks afford it up here unless they are get a rebate on gasoline that we foreigners buy. At least the strawberries were only 1.70 per pound. More later.
Just had a visit from the Branch President. He wanted one of us to speak on Sunday. Since I have already volunteered to teach priesthood Bonnie gets the honors. That's her second scary experience today!!
Weather has been on the cool side today with some rain. Took quite a while to bail the boat this evening. Tomorrow is supposed to pour.
Just had a visit from the camp drunk!! Some guy knocked on our door and he has had more than enough to drink. He heard some people partying so he came to investigate. Said it sounded like they were having a good time. He finally said he must have the wrong cabin. We don't know. We haven't heard anything going on tonight.

Bonnie:  So now I've got to prepare a 20 minute talk for Sunday!  And I don't have a subject, so I think it will be doubly hard.  Oh well, I knew this was coming.  It will be good to get it over with. We just froze about 6 pounds of fresh strawberries tonight.  They are delicious.  This berry patch will have raspberries in 3-4 weeks that they will not be advertising. For sure we will be back for those.  Also, two people have told me that blueberries will be coming on later in the summer, and those are found out in the wild for anyone to pick.  We will be having a berry nice summer!!
As for my first scary experience, I dropped off Bob and Larry and then headed for Lorraine's house to wait with her for our husbands to return.  The only problem was I went in the wrong direction--north instead of south!  I could have sworn that I was going in the direction that Larry told me to go. I drove and drove and drove, looking for the right road. So, there I was, without a cell phone somewhere in northern Ontario, praying with all my heart to find this road.  I finally turned around to retrace my steps.  I figured when they knew I was lost that Bob might go back to where I left them off.  I finally stopped at the cheese factory we had been to and asked them where this road was.  They told me how to go, and I finally found Lorraine's house.  I was so relieved, as you can imagine.  What a day, topped off by this tipsy man who reeked of alcohol.  When I told him we were Mormons and didn't drink he started to tell us about the Mennonites and Amish people that live here.  He was hilarious!