Busy but Good!

Hi to every one!
I have been super busy lately ... we are into the busy season of outfitting and everything! and things have been a bit crazy! plus I have had some unexpected things happen ... like the flat tire on the Durango on Monday while running a group from the lake! it was about a 4 hour ordeal that should have never been that long! but it all worked out! :) thank God!
I will probably only be in town today (Tue) so I may not update again for awhile ... and sorry it has been awhile to getting this one up!

Today is also a sad day for me! I guess I have been feeling homesick and missing certain people in my life! you know who you are! :) but I now know I have to move on and push through it! I will be fine! just a phaze! :)

ok I need to run for now! closing time is soon! and I have a few other things to do in Huntsville!!

thanks to all -- for your comments and encouragement here and on facebook and myspace and through email!
I Love ya all and can not wait to see you all again real soon!
drue

Lake Ann - travel - & back at base camp

Hello all ...
I have been busy lately and just have not had time to get on here to update!
Last week I was up in Michigan at Lake Ann Camp!
my home church youth group kids were up and it was awesome to see them and and hang out with Justin and Terase! Lake Ann is an awesome camp with a lot of positive things going for them! it was good to just experience it and talk with the director and several others around the camp!
I had a quick and easy drive home on Thursday and then had groups come out on Friday and then a new batch of groups this past Saturday and put them in the park on Sunday! it was a full and busy weekend! but was also very good!

I was able to spend time with Dennis Wilhite this week which was very cool and very challenging! He is great at asking the tough questions and making you think about what it is you are pursuing in life!

ok well it is Monday and I am at the Bean Coffee house enjoying a cup of Joe!
I will try and give you another update soon!

enjoy!
drue

CrAzY Thunderstorms!

Ok ... the last few days have produced some major crazy Thunderstorms! late Sunday night early Monday morning we had the first one ... I had groups in the campground and needless to say they got a little wet! a couple of them had to move there tents to higher ground! they were laying in 4 to 5 inches of water! they other thing that happened is the big gray tent that we use got blown up into a tree .. the good thing is that it didnt get hurt and we were able to set it back up fine!

Now Tuesday afternoon I was hanging out at the campground and actually thinking about going for a paddle! then the thunder and I mean thunder started to boom! it was the loudest I think I have ever heard! then the lighting! and then the rain and then the Hail and then the WIND! needless to say it was one the loudest worst Thunderstorms I have experienced in a very long time! and especially in a camper trailer!

So this storm pretty much took out - mangled - our big gray tent!



The Granite Ridge Campground sustained some major tree down damage! I counted at least 15 trees down out in the open! several roads had trees down over them and I helped them get the trees cut to allow cars to pass!
The clean up will be a a long process once again!




Well thankfully no body got hurt and that no major damage was incurred! much to be thankful for! I just hope they get the Hydro restored eh! .. oh whoops that is the Canadian in me coming out! I meant power restored!

well enjoy the pics (more at www.druewolfe.com )and hopefully I will be able to update you with more stories soon!

Have a wonderful week and thank you to all that called, emailed, texted, IM'd and bought me dinner for my birthday!! I greatly appreciate it!!

simply serving
drue

Drue's Canadian Birthday!

So it is Saturday and the coolest date of the year! July 7 2007 or 07/07/07
it is also the day before my Birthday July 8! and once again I am in another country for it!
Last year I had the awesome opportunity to be in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France for my Birthday! So now this year I will be spending it in Kearney Ontario Canada! How fun for me! Only as I was just reminded recently I will not have a bunch of Youth kids with me wishing me well and coloring pictures for me! :) oh well!!!

So I am at the "Bean" right now and am about to head back to base camp to meet my next group coming in for the weekend! I sent a group into the woods this morning around 10am or so! have this next group coming to base camp tonight and then 2 more groups coming in on Sunday! all told around 50 people for the weekend going in to the Algonquin Park!

Well it is about that time so I will be heading off to "work" for the rest of the weekend and Monday ... I will hopefully be online again on Tuesday! so please say HI in an email or otherwise! Thanks Hannah for your email! I would LOVE to hear from the rest of you out there! :)

simply serving
drue

Altoona Church Wilderness trip 2007

So I had the privilege of going out on the first few days of the Altoona Baptist Church's Father and Son wilderness trip this past week! we left on Sunday July 1st.
This was great for me and I loved hanging out with the guys for a few days! I stayed with them thru Tuesday morning when they took off! ... you can check out pictures from there trip in the Flickr photo section of this blog!




There is a great story for me that came out of this trip but I will have to save that for another day! :)

enjoy and I have a very busy week this week! but I am looking forward to reconnecting with some new great friends, Jake and Megan Manne who are going to be here this weekend with there Youth Group! :)

well I will leave you with this for now .. but will try and add more in the next week to come!

simply serving!
drue

gerber daisies!

ok so I was at my favorite hang out the Bean last Friday June 28th.
Kathy the owner got a huge 5 gallon bucket of Gerber daisy's from a customer! and she was so excited about it, it was fun!
But the cool thing is when I left for the day she gave me a mason jar with about six or so of them in it! which was way cool! She said that I could put them in my office! Hummmm so here they are in my office! or should I say the table in my trailer! I guess she doesn't realize that her coffee shop is my office! :)