I got up early today at 7:20 before my alarm went off. I had put off making the bags of clean laundry. So I had to get to it early this morning. The cleaning girls will be here at 9 o'clock hopefully so I need to get cracking.
First I had to let out the dog. Good thing because he had to go almost immediately. Then I put away an entire dishwasher of dishes, made breakfast and then headed downstairs.
Our basement is a catastrophe. We have some organized chaos near the laundry and cleaning section of the basement. The rest is scary. Is there anyone out there who organizes basements? We could use some help. Anyway I finished 4 bags before the one, get it, one cleaning girl showed up. I had heard last week that I would have 3, which would be good, but only Alicia was here. So she and I got started.
We stripped the dirty sheets off of the Spruce cabin's beds first because that was the only cabin that left at check-out time. Everyone else took at least 20 minutes more. We loaded up the minivan with the cleaning supplies: vacuum, baskets of cleaning chemicals, basket of rags, bags, clean laundry and off we went. We worked well together and got Cedar done within about 45 minutes. Then I went to call the other cleaning girls. I had hoped they would show up eventually but when they weren't here by 10 o'clock, I had to call. I left 2 messages. Hopefully the fact that they weren't answering meant that they were on their way. At 10:10 another cleaning lady showed up. It turned out she had to drive her daughter almost an hour away to a babysitter first. I feel for her since I was a single mom once too. I was happy she was able to make it.
So now there were 3 of us and that's a good enough number for cleaning. We cleaned another 2 cabins and then I made us lunch. There was salad, corn on the cob, melon, lean pockets and lil' smokies. That's quite a mixture, but we were hungry and the food disappeared. We had chocolate cake for dessert.
We cleaned until about 2:15 and finished the 5 cabins that were needed this week. The cleaning ladies will come back tomorrow, Sunday, at 1:00 p.m. to do some more cleaning and possibly finish the others.
This is the first week that we are not full because of school starting. Our summer is over. We won't have the children back during the week until after June 5, next year now. So we will start to wind down now. This week is our kayak week for people with disabilities. We offer a discount and kayaking options for anyone who has a disability. We have 5 cabins in this week. We will be full Labor Day weekend and the weekend after that is a retreat for the Spina Bifida Association. But our weeks will be less hectic now until next spring.
John worked very hard today helping us by taking the dirty sheets out of the cabins, and turning off and emptying refrigerators. He still had his regular duties too: bailing out the many gallons of water out of the boats, cleaning out grills and putting away garbage, etc. He worked until 5:30 or so. Then he got a telephone call from our elderly neighbor to help him with his neighbor's dogs. The elderly man's neighbor had asked him to watch 3 dogs. This is terrible because he just got out of the hospital. He had trouble walking up and down his stairs and then he was asked to take care of his neighbor's dogs. I felt like calling them and saying, "Shame on you asking him to watch your dogs!" John went over and helped him and said we would take care of their dogs tomorrow. John was so worried about him because he was out of breath, etc. Hopefully he will be okay.
When you live in the country, your neighbors are sometimes miles away. It is no small effort for John to go to this "neighbor's" home to take care of their dogs because they are more than a mile away. We will have to talk with them when they get back.
I did a couple loads of laundry again. Laundry is my life around here. Somebody's kid must have scratched a mosquito bite until it bled, because there was a lot of blood in the foot end of a bed. This usually means an ankle bite of a mosquito. I've seen it before. So that means a lot more laundry but that happens. We can't have any, and I mean any, spots on a mattress pad. That would be very yucky.
Tomorrow we will be doing a lot of swimming and kayaking because it is supposed to be 85 degrees. It will be fun and hopefully I will get some more sun. Soon I won't be able to get much in the way of a tan anymore. It will be cooling off very soon.
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