Sunday's are usually my day of rest. I at least try to take it easy on Sundays. I went to church with a relative, then went to the grocery store to get a paper, etc. John likes to read the Journal/Sentinel and then share the paper with customers. I made lunch, kept it on warm so people could eat whenever they were hungry and headed down to the beach. I said hello to some customers I had not seen yet this week and talked for awhile.
Our neighbor, Liz, came by with some more candles to sell in our lodge. We have a few shelves that we offer items for sale. She asked for our famous root beer floats, and we talked. She put her candles up on our shelves and then we headed back down to the beach. Right now there are candles, CD's, sewing items and cards for sale in the lodge. Liz has two boys who are adorable and love to come down to the resort and spend time with the other kids. We sat on the beach adirondack chairs and talked for awhile while we watched her kids swim. She told me the story of the bear that got into her garbage. She has a little mud room attached to her front entrance and their garbage is kept in there. Apparently a bear got into that room, lifted a plastic bag containing an old printer off the garbage, set the printer on the floor, and then took out the bag of garbage. She said the printer/bag was sitting straight up and didn't have a rip in it or anything. The garbage was then dragged by the bear into the woods. Their 2 dogs were going crazy so she looked out and saw the bear. Her husband, Matt, took out a gun and shot it into the air to scare away the bear, which worked. She is still shocked that the bear went into their mud room to get the garbage though. That night we caught a bear by our dumpster with the animal control live trap. She said she hasn't seen any sign of bear since, so hopefully that was the one.
It was cloudy all day but still warm so the children were down on the beach most of the day. Kayaks, paddles, surf boards, paddle boats and the like were strewn everywhere. So later in the day I went down to the beach and cleaned it up a little. If we don't do this, there won't be any beach because all the boats would be covering it. So I repositioned some boats and picked up some garbage on the point. The point has our beach, 2 docks, a boat landing, 2 bench swings, canoes, kayaks, sail boats, sail boards, 2 picnic tables and many chairs on it. There is also a bulletin board by the boat landing for invasive species awareness for boaters, etc. We have a raft floating about 20 feet off of shore over about 12 feet or more of depth. There's a diving platform on the raft and the kids love to jump off of it. There isn't any spring to the board, so its just like walking the plank, but its still fun. If I don't reposition the boats, they will cover our small beach area and that wouldn't be fun for the little kids. We have a large pier covered with carpet on the back of the point for our kayaks. People have a tendency to take the kayaks off of that pier and then return them to the sandy beach. We try to tell everyone to return them to where they got them, but it seems almost impossible to get that point across.
John made a couple garbage runs today to unlock the bear protection on the dumpster and put the bags in. He has the dumpster tightened down in case a bear comes around again. We don't want any bear to think of our dumpster as food so we keep it locked at all times.
I did some laundry and hung it outside to dry then I organized the cleaning supplies a little. Laundry pick up is Tuesday and if I don't get it down when I'm thinking about it, I might forget. The laundry bin is as tall as I am now and ready for pick up.
Later in the day I had to yell at some kids who were playing on our pontoon. The older boys, 13 and 10 were trying to start the pontoon, and when it wouldn't, they started messing with the cables that went to the motor. Now John and I have to try to see if they messed up anything. They also were throwing around the running lights/poles we have. Hopefully they are not broken. We gave them a lecture and hopefully they will be more respectful of us now.
Later in the day John and his brother, who is here with his family for the week, decided to go and help their mom. Their dad is in the hospital and possibly had a stroke. So they will leave on Monday to be there to support her. She really needs their help right now and she sounded very stressed on the telephone. Hopefully Bud will pull through.
So John and I were up until around 11:30 p.m. doing bills and making out deposits and figuring out bills. John might be gone for a few days or longer depending on how his dad is doing. So he wanted to prepare. Monday morning at 8 a.m. he and his brother will be calling their mother to see how their dad is doing before they leave. So we went to bed late.
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