Monday, September 13, 2010.
The picture is of our niece, Jaeden. This was taken only a month ago. Now the water is already too cold to enjoy a swim. The nights have been getting down in the the 40's already. There's a frost warning for tonight.
As soon as I could, I was at the grocery store this morning. We needed milk and dog food. How can any of us have our breakfast without either? I got home by 10:30 and had everything put away, the dogs fed and breakfast done by noon. I had a load of laundry going and had sewed for about an hour before we got the call we were waiting for.
At noon our friend, Frank, called us back to tell us that we should reschedule the sofa moving until tomorrow. We had made a few calls and hadn't received any confirmation of help. So tomorrow Frank will have his company's partner available to help us move the sofa. John thought that he and I would be able to move it. I don't think so. It is a long, leather sofa with two recliners in it. Moving it would be like, me and what army, not just me and John. So I have to wait until tomorrow. I am a little worried because we were supposed to pick up everything by 8 pm today. Frank is the realtor's husband, and he said he has a key to the house and removal tomorrow will be fine. I sure hope so.
Around 2 pm a customer came into the lodge for a beer. He hadn't caught any fish but he wasn't too disappointed. He hadn't been out there for very long. He said it took him too long to get all his poles set up so he got a late start.
Our lodge is a fully-functioning bar. We have alcohol, wine and beer. We don't advertise to the public though and don't have set hours. We are not interested at this time in getting the bar full every night. Maybe if the economy keeps going the way it has, we might have to think about that. Busy bars make a lot of money. We just want to have a life though and not be in the bar all the time, which is what it would take.
John and I then started on our errands around 3pm. I made a few telephone calls and did some computer work. Then I went up to Balsam cabin and did a very thorough cleaning. I like it when I have all the time in the world to clean a cabin because then I know its done right. John met me up there and replaced the bathroom ceiling light in Balsam. He doesn't like to work on electrical without someone there just in case, so that worked out good.
John had spent a long time organizing the recycling dumpster for pick up tomorrow. He spends a long time pulling out all the aluminum cans for the Mercer Public School. That is our way of donating to the school, he says. There are a lot of cans going out of here every week in the summer. I hope the school appreciates it!
After I was finished cleaning the Balsam cabin, I went around and made sure all the dirty sheets were taken out of the cabins. The laundry gets picked up tomorrow and I want them all ready to go.
After that I made a quick dinner and then we visited with some customers in the lodge again. They came in to see who was playing Monday night football. They didn't stay too long. John then relaxed to watch tennis and then football. I went downstairs to sew a little more. I am working on a quilt for the lodge in fall colors. I hope to be finished with it by the quilt retreat next week. I should be.
I called a couple people today to see if they could help us move around some furniture and we would pay them, of course. I didn't get any call back tonight. I will have to call more people tomorrow.
I have a sore back from the moving of the furniture yesterday, cleaning/vacuuming a cabin and hauling big bags of laundry around. I took an ibuprophen and I'm going to relax the rest of the night in my recliner. I can't wait to get my new leather sofa tomorrow and try out the new recliners. When we are tired, we are physically tired too and really NEED our recliners.
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