We all need occasional sprucing up!
It’s Spring and that means clean-up here on the campground. In a nod to Mark Twain…what a deal we have for you! 
May 6-8,2011 Camp for free with us in exchange for help on Saturday with chores. We’ll feed you, laugh with you, show you around and relax by the fire when it’s all done. Broadly the schedule works like this:
Friday Afternoon come when you can, there will be a fire and refreshments in the rec hall when you get here. Sites are first come, first choose and everyone is welcome.
Come and see our thousands of bulbs!
Saturday morning we’ll fry homemade doughnuts and share coffee and cocoa (with homemade marshmallows) by the fire while we get organized. The list of chores to be accomplished will include (but not limited to) the following:
- Raking
- Picking up brush
- Painting (creative and otherwise)
- Cleaning the rec hall (dusting, arranging and windows)
- Cleaning windows in the store and bathhouse
- Building various things
- Setting up the playground equipment
- Fixing up the walking trails
- Gardening
- Repairing a deck
- Setting up and cleaning up after meals
- Special projects thought of by guests
Saturday we’ll do a lunch cookout at the beach beside the beach bonfire and at night we’ll share a pot luck supper…we’ll cook turkey or ribs and you bring the side dishes.
Sunday relax as late into the day as you can…
Tired of Winter?
And if you want to come Thursday or stay into the following week…we can figure that out too.
Because hosting is most fun when we’re an intimate group, we limit attendance to 30-40 people…so I need you tell me if you’re coming and how many friends and family you’ll be bringing with you. This is a very nice opportunity to catch up with old friends, check the park out if you haven’t stayed here before and enjoy a no cost weekend away from home while you shake the winter cobwebs from your camping gear.
We’ll be here rain or shine and hope that you will be too!
Astrig, Steven & Zaven
PS. You can e-mail an RSVP at relax@campocean.com
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April 9, 2009 at 4:39 pm
peggy
I would love for my family to come for this! There are two adults, and two children. They are nearly 3 years old and 6. Can we be added to the list of RSVPs?!
April 17, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Nicole
Hi Peggy~
My name is Nicole. I saw that you are going on clean up weekend with you 2 kids. I also have 2 boys ages 6 & 9. I think we should meet up if you are still planning on going, I was afraid to go because I didn’t want the boys to be in the way of those helping. I’m looking forward to camping. We <3 it!!
April 1, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Shelley Gromek
Hi Astrig
Rachel, Dad, Jason and I would love to come again this Mother’s Day and will arrive Friday and stay through Sunday afternoon. NO wounded thumbs this year or thrown out backs and I will bring a huge bowl of macaroni salad for Saturday. What with Rachel’s trip to the ER last year and all we seemed to miss everything but replanting the seedlings. Still had a wonderful time and saw an amazing storm. Gotta love Maine rainstorms. Anyway it would be great to see you all and participate in the activities without the pain…lol
Hope to see you soon
Shelley (formerly of the Maine Thread)
April 12, 2010 at 10:53 am
unpredictablejourney
We are still planning on being there for the clean up and fix up weekend…. I’m excited and was wondering if there are many people joining in this event… and which site # we might be staying at. We have looked at your blog and all the different photos of the various sites available… and it makes me even more excited to join in!! May 7-9 can’t come quick enough. Let us know if there is anything that we should bring with us other than ourselves…. we will be travelling from upstate NY so if there’s something down this way that you love and have to have, let us know! Thanks again, Amanda
April 14, 2010 at 4:59 am
Astrig
It’s good to hear from you Amanda…when you arrive, you’ll choose the site that suits you and your family…were you going to come early?
April 15, 2010 at 6:09 am
mary lopez
I am interested in helping out for the free weekend. Please let me know. There will be probably my 18yr old granddaughter and myself coming. She loves painting and cleaning. Very artistic. thank you Mary
April 15, 2010 at 6:15 am
Astrig
We’d love to have you join us! Tell me how you camp and if there’s anything I can do to make your arrival easier…
April 22, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Emily Pike
My name is Emily and my mom and I would like to come for the free cleanup weekend. We love camping and love Maine and would enjoy helping out and meeting new people. We are coming from Vermont and would be arriving on Friday and staying until Sunday. Could you please let me know if you still have room available. We are very interested. Thank you
Emily
April 22, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Astrig
Emily,
We would be thrilled to have you join us! We used to live in Lyndonville VT decades ago…you’ll have a very pretty drive over to the coast. How do you camp?
Astrig
April 29, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Madeleine Costa
Madeleine and Ron are looking forward to seeing you on Thursday, May 6. Can’t wait to see the place and make new friends! See you soon!
April 29, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Astrig
The feeling is mutual…I’m glad that you’re coming early so that you can poke around a bit…so many pretty places to see!
April 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm
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