Wednesday, September 15, 2010

64 of 365 of What it is Like to Run a Resort

Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
Not much happened today. It rained almost the entire day off and on. The sun did come out a little early on, but not for long.

Some customers came into the lodge this evening. I was downstairs sewing, where I had been the entire day. I am making a quilt for the lodge in fall colors. I also did a couple loads of laundry during the sewing time. John didn't hear the people come into the lodge and I did so I went up. One of the customers wanted to use our telephone for a conference call. Her cell phone doesn't get a good enough signal here to do the conference call on it. Her husband and friend also came into the lodge and one wanted a beer, which I got for him. The friend was on the lap top on our Wi-Fi looking at the weather.

They decided that the radar made it look like we were going to have rain for the entire night and into tomorrow. They hinted that they might want to go home early if this keeps up. They had planned on being here for an entire week. Hopefully they'll stay.

John gave them some kayaking ideas and waterfall reminders. The group has seen a lot of what the northwoods has to offer so they will think about it.

John did some paperwork today for his health insurance and did some research on a shotgun he wants to sell. The rest of the day he just read or did little stuff. Earlier in the morning he went up to the dumpster to check that the garbage had been picked up and that nothing had fallen out, etc. All was okay.

I ordered some tickets to see Red Green live in Duluth this fall. Then when I told John, he said that he had planned on visiting his mom during that weekend. It is close to her birthday. I will call tomorrow and cancel I guess.

I had planned on doing other things today besides sewing, but none of them had to be done. So I enjoyed the entire day behind my Bernina sewing machine. The cold, rainy days and nights are all I needed to make me want to sew again.

Tomorrow I will have to clean a cabin but I don't mind. I think that cleaning cabins is therapeutic. I am so used to doing it now that I am almost on auto-pilot when I clean. I feel relaxed and love what the cabins look like when I know they are thoroughly clean. I also like to spend time in the cabins and cleaning allows me to do so. I've always liked to be a homemaker, and if I spend some time in a cabin, I get ideas on how to make it look better, etc. Hopefully that will be the case tomorrow. We'll see.

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