After a three week visit with our friends Bud & Dayl Davis, we have moved into our summer home for the current time. We are volunteers for the Army Corps of Engineers at Lavon Lake, and we are staying at East Fork Park. This will be our main work area, although we are not campground hosts this time. Our work is just now being developed so we are still in the organizing process, but we do expect to have a very nice summer.
At this time we are only just beginning to get to know the staff here, but we have found them all to be very easy to like. Our immediate supervisor is a young ranger named Matt Faulkner, who seems to really have his act together. With the staff here so short handed everyone has to do more than one job and all seem to take that in stride and charge on. One big problem for the Corps of Engineers parks is that as a part of the Army, most effort, talent and money is all engaged in war in the Middle East, so the crews who run the lakes here in the states get very little support. In spite of that fact, this staff all seem to work very well together and to have a great deal of respect for and appreciation of the volunteers. We look forward to a great experience while we are here.
With this a lake park, most of the activities here revolve around water. On week ends the campground is very busy as are both boat ramps at this park. The campground has 50 sites with water and electricity as well as about a dozen tent-only sites and a new horse park with water, electricity and horse pens. There are toilets with showers in all three sections of the campground and a dump station at the gate. There are also numerous picnic areas and a group area which can be reserved. With the park located only about an hour from Dallas there is a great deal of summer use. We also have several full-time RV folks staying here as the rates are very reasonable and the sites are spacious.
For us, it is also very handy as there is a Super Wal-Mart only two miles away, our new doctors are just three miles away and our youngest grandchildren are just about eight miles distant! We do expect to do a little fishing, a little working and a lot of spoiling grandkids! If you should pass near the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, do let us know as we would love to have you visit us here.