Another week has flown by. This week was very fun and we enjoyed every day. There was 24 children here this last week and I am happy to report that they are all signed up to return next year.
Today I didn't get up until 8:20 a.m., which is late for me. I had to clean up #2 from our shepherd who's incontinence issues are growing more bothersome. He is 13 and a half, and he walks with a limp that is getting progressively worse. He didn't even know he had messed himself, which is even more scary. We will miss Buddy terribly when he goes, so we just clean up after him and give him pain meds and push him to walk a little every morning and afternoon. The more we keep him moving, the better. So far he is staying about the same with regards to his ability to walk and we hope he will make it through the summer.
Fridays for our customers are usually the days they stick around the resort. That's what the majority of people did. We sat and talked on the beach, brought out a lot of left overs from the week and munched away our lunch. There were two picnic tables full of food at the beach area. I took my little niece up to the lodge and made her something more substantial, but my nephew said he was full from all the sausage and cheese he had eaten.
John did a lot of snorkeling today and said he saw a lot of fish - bass mostly. So my nephew sought them out too and he found a few. John also went up to the dumpster on a regular basis to put the garbage into it. He had to unlock the anti-bear device he had set up each time. So far the bear hasn't been able to get into the dumpster (3 days and counting). If that bear gets into the dumpster one more time, we're going to call animal control again.
My niece had never swam out to the raft without her life jacket before and she was asking about it today. She felt like she was able to do it without her life jacket. So I told her she had to jump off the dock and swim to shore a few times first. She just needed a little confidence and pretty soon she was swimming out to the raft and all around with the other kids without a life jacket. Her smile was like a mile wide. She said the water was cooler today than yesterday so she was shivering, but she didn't want to get out of the water anyway. She had a lot of fun.
I mostly sat around with some old friends and talked. I had to do a favor for our neighbor and run over to his house for a minute, but that was my only excursion for the morning and afternoon.
Later in the day a bunch of us went out for a fish fry at Beaver Lodge. There was 12 of us and the fish fry was great as always. Its not often we can get bluegill baskets. After we were finished eating, the kids piled into our minivan for the ride home. We took them on a scenic ride on the way home through some back roads. There's one hill that gives your stomach a lurch when you go over it and the kids all screamed when it happened. It was fun.
The last duty of the day was to prepare for tomorrow by making up some clean laundry bags. For instance I take a large, white laundry bag, put in a throw rug for the kitchen, bath rug or rugs, kitchen towels and wash cloths, grease can and kitchen scrubby, trash bags, hot pads, sheets, pillow cases, paper towel roll and toilet paper rolls. Then I put the label on the bag indicating what cabin it is for and set it by the door. Tomorrow when the customer leaves their cabin, we go into the cabin and drop off the bag I made. We then take out the dirty laundry, etc. This is a constant cycle in the summer. I would have much rather stayed upstairs with friends, but I had to get this done for tomorrow morning.
Earlier I got a call from one of my cleaning girls to remind me she wouldn't be here tomorrow and that neither would her sister. I was very thankful for the call because I had forgotten. So I called our 2 back-ups and left a message for them to come if they could. If they cannot, there might only be 3 women cleaning tomorrow. That would mean that I would have to clean too. I'm not looking forward to that, especially since my niece is still visiting. Hopefully I will have 4 women here. That's the best number.
Well got to go to bed now and try to get a decent night's sleep for tomorrow. Eight o'clock comes early around here.
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