I am sorry this post is a little late. Last night we had tremendous storms blow through from 7:00 until after 11:00 p.m. I turned off my computer because I didn't want it to get fried. The storms were very bad. There was a boy scout troop camping out on the Turtle Flambeau Flowage and now there might be some children missing. The Dept. of Natural Resources person I spoke to this morning said that they are not sure if anyone is missing and are sending out a search and rescue group right now. This at 11:00 a.m. the next day. I wish they would have done this sooner. Supposedly they have blocked off the Flowage so no one can get onto it to interfere. I hope that no one interferes. John was going to go out and take some pictures of the downed trees, but when he heard there might be people missing, he didn't want to bother the rescuers.
Our neighbor, Harry, gave me a scanner/weather radio the other day. So I had it on the weather channel all night. We listened as it told us of severe weather and winds until 10:00 p.m., when it was pretty much blown over. There was still an occasional lightning flash, and rain, but nothing to worry about. The customers were glad I had the radio, and so was I. I wish I could have been able to figure out how to get it to scan for police and/or rescue channels, but because of my inability, we didn't know what was going on until this morning. One of our customers went to the store to get a paper and there was a lot of talking going on about the storm on the Flowage. He came into the lodge to tell John and me. Hopefully, God protected all the Boy Scouts last night and they will have a story to tell for the rest of their lives.
Yesterday it rained on and off
so there wasn't a lot of swimming. I took my niece and nephew, Jaeden and Tommy, to the Wampum shop around 11 a.m. As we were checking out, in came a large group from our resort. That was fun to see them. Seeing the big group come in also reminded me of how resorts impact the tourism of towns. If it weren't for our resort, they wouldn't have had as many people shopping that day. When we got there, there was only 3 other people in the store. When we left, our resort just about filled every aisle.
When we got back, people crammed into the lodge to play games, the piano, watch Shrek 2, check their computers and talk. It was packed in the lodge until our old dog, Buddy, pooped under the dining table. That cleared out a lot of people. He is 13 years old and for a shepherd, that's pretty old. So he's been having some poopy problems and now some of our customers got to see it first hand. This might be Buddy's last summer, sad to say.
Later some kids filled up the lodge playing games like foosball and Monopoly. They were all well behaved and it was fun to hear and see everyone there. We love it when the lodge is being used like its supposed to. The day went fast, especially with the kids playing so nicely all day, even though some of it was on computers. We don't particularly like the children playing on computers when they should be enjoying the outdoors, but on a rainy day, we don't mind.
Earlier in the day I brought up a lot of boxes from the basement for our office. They had been down there since we started renovating our office about a year ago. I did the ceiling and replaster, repaint, fixed the walls, repainted, took out a partial wall, fixed the studs, bought new/used rug & curtains, etc. Then I asked John to put up the trim on the new closet. He took over six months to finish it. Yikes. Now the office is finally finished so I can move stuff back in, like I said in my previous posts. But it takes time and a lot of effort to get everything back to normal around here. I still have a big box of stuff to bring up from the basement. I must have spent 2 hours yesterday just putting stuff back in the office.
One of our friends said the other day that they were impressed about how much work we get done around here. I guess we don't even think about the volume of work, but there sure is a lot. He started listing a couple of the things he noticed and it made us feel good that he thought we worked hard on our resort's trails, etc. Truth be known, the trails around our cabins and lake were improved by the children. Every evening this week in particular the children/teens would play flashlight tag and run down the trails, through the woods, around the cabins, etc. They are the ones who improve the trails. Whenever a tree or branch starts to grow over the trail, the flashlight taggers take care of it. We laughed about our "trail grooming" efforts and our friend did too. We won't take credit where it is not due.
After the storms started yesterday, I had to turn off the computer. So I am sorry this post is late.
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