I hope that the jibberish I see above this text turns into a picture when I save the blog, if not, please excuse my computer's inability to download a picture. If it did show up, it is a picture of our raft with kids having a great time on it. We have a diving platform that looks like a spring board, but actually is more like a plank. The kids love it.
Today I was up early and my husband slept in. He has been very busy with his parents and today he caught up on some sleep. I was going to go to the library at 9:00 a.m. for their book sale, but I had to wait for him to wake up. Otherwise there would be a lot of people disturbing his rest. Sure enough there were people in the lodge asking for one thing or another way before 9:30 a.m., when he got up.
John got out of bed eventually and started on the paperwork that was waiting for him. He asked me a bunch of questions, and got me to run an errand and so my departure was delayed. I had to get all the gas cans out of the garage, put them in the minivan and fill them up on my outing. Two of them needed new corks and luckily I had saved some corks from wine bottles. The tops of the spouts have disappeared somewhere. We are going to have all of our boats rented next week, starting tomorrow. So we wanted to make sure we had enough gas. One group of guys who are renting them use a lot of gas and we wanted to make sure it was ready for them. They will be using all the boats for 1 day, 2 for 3 days and 1 for all week. Confusing, but we'll manage.
I'm a little worried about our dogs today. I think someone has been feeding them stuff because they are not eating their dog food and Senna, our Golden Retriever, threw up this morning. Customers think they're guaranteeing that our dogs will love them if they give them food. Well all it does is make our lives miserable. I had to clean up a mess from Senna and Buddy won't eat his food on a regular basis, so we worry about giving him his pain meds, etc. We tried to remind everyone not to feed them, but we'll see what happens.
Most everybody was on the beach all day. It was sunny and warm with a strong breeze. A lot of people brought their left over snacks down to the beach and we had a lot of fun sampling the treats. If we can make their packing less work by eating some of their food, we'll do it.
At the Library's book sale today (Hi, Renie!), hard covers were $1 and paperbacks were $25 each. I spent $15 and got a huge bag full. The ladies who were checking me out complimented me on the large amount of books I purchased for the resort. I had to get a lot of different types to please everyone. Fiction for John - adventure or fun stories; non-fiction for me; some self-help medical books and the like, and some fun books for anyone. It was fun picking out the books for the lodge. We have 3 book cases in the lodge for people to read books, swap books or take books home. We don't mind if people take a book home, we just ask that they bring one of equal value back. Most people bring a lot more than one back and that works well too. I saw some of our friends and customers at the book sale and that was fun too.
Later in the day I put away the huge laundry bin that was delivered just hours before. It comes all shrink wrapped, ironed and put in size piles. I have to sort a lot of it though because the laundry folks don't always get the sizes right. After I spent about an hour sorting and putting away the huge laundry bin, I started my work for tomorrow. I pulled out my white laundry bags and put the following clean/new items in for tomorrow: 2 each of the following - dish cloth, dish towel, hot pads, rugs, garbage bags, paper towels; one each of the following - pillowcases for each pillow, sheets for each bed, scrubbie, grease can; 4 rolls of toilet paper and a table cloth. I label the bag for each cabin and set it by the basement door. In the morning when a cabin checks out, I take out all the dirty stuff out of the cabin, and drop off the new bag in the cabin for the cleaning crew. So tonight I got a head start and did 4 out of 9 bags. I really hope at least 4 cleaning ladies show up tomorrow morning.
Today, and most weeks, people tell us that this is their favorite vacation. These particular people just got back from Hawaii too. That's impressive. They said it is so relaxing, and their kids can have fun running through the wooded trails, and they don't have to worry about them. To them, that's one of the things that make a great vacation for their kids. I guess I hadn't thought about that too much as it is something I take for granted. I grew up in the northwoods so running around in them is expected. I forget that people from the city areas don't have safe places for their kids to play in the woods. So this is so great for them. It makes me happy that we can provide the "best" vacation that they have with their families.
We have 2 early check in requests for tomorrow which means we have to have 2 cabins cleaned by noon for sure. We also have someone staying 2 weeks so their cabin that they are moving into should be done as soon as possible too. They couldn't get the same cabin for 2 weeks so have to switch tomorrow to a different one. So that's 3 early cabins. Hopefully the people in those cabins will leave fairly early, which helps.
Tonight after the campfire we tried to see northern lights. There was a little white spurt or two but that was it. The stars were out though which made up for it. The night was clear and beautiful. It was nice to have John sitting next to me on the dock bench under the stars - with 5 other people. We were hoping to see the northern lights, but it was still a very beautiful night.
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