Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. It's the Friday before Labor Day weekend. We have a lot of customers arriving today. So I went into 8 of 9 cabins to get them all ready. The 9th cabin had arrived yesterday.
I had to turn on the refrigerators and make sure water is ready in the ice cube trays. The hot water has to be turned on. The heaters had to have their pilot lights lit. The cooking stove/oven had to have their pilots lit too. I got them almost all done. When I was in the 2nd to the last cabin, and I won't say which one, I noticed a problem. We had a mouse. I went through every dish, pan, plate, bowl, glass, etc. to make sure they were all clean. Then I wiped down the table, counters, shelves, floor and oven to make sure there were no traces of the critter. Then I put Decon (mouse poison) in the cabin where I noticed some stuffing coming out from under a kitchen base cabinet. It turns out the mouse was under the bottom shelf under the sink. There is a little opening between the kick plate and the bottom shelf of the base cabinet.
In every cabin we have an electric "pesticator" sonic repellent for mice, bats and critters of the like. It is supposed to emit a high pitched sound that the little critters don't like. We also put poison in the cabins when no one is in there just in case. When we get the cabins ready, we then remove the poison and wipe up the area with a bleach solution. We do this to be proactive, but when we see a mouse, we are ferocious. I am sure that the mouse will be dead soon, due to all the poison I put under that cabinet, thank goodness.
When customers arrived, we greeted, talked to and visited with them. Some we never met before so it was fun getting to know them.
John and I did a lot of paperwork and talking with the customers, but that was about it. The day went fast.
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