winter wonder land has arrived

I am not sure when it arrived since I really do not go outside that much. To be honest, I don't go outside at all if I can help it. I arrive on the big yellow bus from the airstrip at the camp, walk in the doors and then stay indoors for the weeks I am in until it is check out time and I walk out the doors I came in to go to the big yellow bus to take me to the plane. So when someone told me that it was a winter wonderland out there I was confused till I ventured to the back loading dock and looked outside, briefly. It appears that we have gotten a dump of snow. It is about 1 inch deep now and has stuck around for a good few days now. I am guessing on the time because it is recently they have mentioned winter wonderland and when I looked out it was still there and no one has mentioned repeated snow fall. So I am guessing that means that the snow came a few days ago and has decided to stick around. So, winter is finally in the air and hear and I can be happy (even more so) that I have an inside job.

Not really sure if the people here have actually smartened up or if I have just become habitualized to their stupidity, but not that many funny stories happening. About the only thing that has happened that makes me shake my head and go "What the hell?" is the other day when we didn't have a menu for next week. Normally we have a menu planned about 2 weeks ahead so that the cook can pull meats and I can prep up the veggies required for the upcoming days. Nothing worse than having a busy day and walking in to the kitchen and the cook going "oh, yeah, by the way, gonna need 2 buckets of carrots peeled and sliced for dinner tonight". Though I do admit that it is good training for when the Mrs and I have kids and I am tucking them in to bed at 8pm and they tell me "oh yeah, by the way, I need a pirate costume and 80 cupcakes and 50 cookies for school tomorrow for pirate day" Anyways, so the cook had the entire menu up for the next two weeks and Radio comes in, looks at the menu and erases the whole thing saying it was a bad menu and he would put up the menu. That was about a week and a half ago. For a week and a half we had no menu, no idea what was coming up and what was going to happen. Finally on Sunday afternoon he walks in with a menu (not for two weeks but for one week) and holds it up and announces that he has the menu like he had just mapped human DNA. Our menu week runs from Monday to Sunday, so we had no clue what we were doing the next day for a menu.

Oh, one thing was mentioned the other day that I had to laugh over. The dishwasher and 1st cook were all standing around the doorway looking out at the two girls that were in the dining room. They were talking about them and mentioned how they both had put on a lot of weight since starting at camp 5 months ago. They mentioned things like how the one girl used to wear nice fitting jeans or spandex tights around camp and all. Now she is wearing baggy jogging pants but you can still see that they are becoming less baggy as the months go along. I walked over and asked what they were talking about and they told me that they were noticing how all the girls were putting on weight. I looked around and then said "you know, I think it is a case that we all put on weight when we are in camp but we just notice it on the women cause we are always looking and checking them out. I mean, how often have you checked out Shane or Bill?" Both of them looked at me, then at each other and got a sort of blank look on their face. I walked away and let them ponder that one for a bit.