This picture is of our oldest dog Buddy, and our nephews Carl, Ned and niece Freya in our newest cabin, Ironwood. Ned and Freya's dad is John's brother, Jim and their mother is Laura.
Today is Tuesday and the recycling truck arrived when we were eating breakfast. We totally forgot to do the recycling run around the resort before it arrived. Our schedule has been so hectic that I also forgot to call laundry to pick up this week. Hopefully I'll have enough sheets for next week. Otherwise I'll be doing some laundry. I'll have to make some bags of clean laundry for the cabins soon to make sure I have enough so I'm not doing laundry last minute.
Tomorrow is garbage truck day so in the morning we will do a garbage run from the fish cleaning house to the dumpster. John did a garbage run tonight to get all the rest, so that's over at least.
John and I are exhausted. Friday we prepared, Saturday we worked extremely hard, Sunday we worked again for his dad's memorial, Monday morning we cleaned up, packed, organized, drove home, had pot luck and caught up with our customers. So today I could hardly keep my eyes open and wanted a nap so badly even though I slept plenty last night. But a nap was never meant to be. Just when I was about to fall asleep on the couch, customers came in to the lodge asking for something. My niece who is staying for the week had been playing a board game with some new friends in the lodge so I thought I could sneak away for a little shut-eye. Oh well.
It turns out that we have some plumbing issues to contend with tomorrow. The kitchen sink in 2 cabins is leaking a little underneath. It isn't an emergency, which is good, because John was out on an outing. I don't know plumbing enough to fix those leaks. One might need an entire new seal around the drain. Yikes.
John took a big group to the Turtle Flambeau Flowage today. He finally got to see all the devastation from the tornado that went through a month ago. John said it is bad and the one route we used to take between islands is no longer open. He said trees are down, campsites are ruined and there's a lot of work to be done. John had been wanting to see the damage from the storm, but hadn't had a chance until today. He was gone from 1pm until 7pm. That's a long day.
I don't know how John can still sit down at the campfire. I was falling asleep down there talking with people. I'm sure the one glass of red wine I drank didn't help any to keep me awake. It took my aching knee pain away though.
Some other customers went kayaking up river toward Shay Dam. They enjoyed their outing but their children are all pretty small and I don't think they will try that long of an outing for awhile. One mother called the outing "epic". That didn't sound too good. I asked her to elaborate and she said that the kids had to move around in the kayaks, they had to stop to change people around, they never found a place to get out and swim but loved the scenery. They still had fun though. I guess epic meant quite a lot of work for the parents. But the children will forever have the memory of being on a river in the northwoods. You can't beat that.
There haven't been any bear or snapping turtle sightings lately which is wonderful. The water is really warm and the kids are having a blast playing at the beach.
There's a roaring campfire going to ward off the chill of the night. Its supposed to get down to 48 degrees tonight but no one wants their heaters turned on. They are so happy to be away from the southern heat wave that they don't mind curling up with blankets. We're happy we don't have to turn on the heaters too.
Good night everybody. My pillow is calling.
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