Saturday, October 30, 2010.
The picture is of some mushrooms, a stump and leaves. John saw it in the woods and took it back in September.
John got a deposit ready to take to the bank before noon. Then he loaded all the recyclables that we can't put in our dumpster. He was going to take them to the recycling center. That means all the cardboard, and aluminum cans. He separates the cans for the elementary school here. He reaches into the dumpster and takes them out for the school. Sometimes that is an easy job if the dumpster is almost full. But now the dumpster isn't even close to full. So he jumps into the dumpster, throws all the cans out into a barrel, jumps out of the dumpster, puts the cans into plastic bags, loads them into the car and then he can go.
His job was made especially difficult today because the customers who had just left had put some garbage in the recycling dumpster and some recycling in the garbage dumpster. Even though there are signs on the front of each dumpster, people just don't read them I guess.
He then did some little stuff around the yard, which made him late. He realized on the way to the bank that he might not make it before noon. Thankfully they let him do his deposit anyway at 12:02 p.m.
I threw in some more laundry and then put away some. After I made the bag of clean laundry for Alder and Ironwood cabins, I set them in the minivan and drove it up to Alder. A couple of hours later I was finished cleaning the Alder cabin. It was sunny outside but very cold, with a high of 47 degrees. So I was thankful to do some work inside anyway. The cabin had been left pretty clean so it went well.
I noticed when I was leaving the cabin that Dave, our caretaker, was putting cultured stone on the bottom half of the Birch cabin. It is going to look very nice when he is finished. The logs on the bottom half were getting rotten. No matter how much we put in filler or patched it, the cabin needed some major work. It was built in 1938 so you know the logs can only go so long.
I took the cleaning supplies and the bag of clean laundry to the Ironwood cabin. Dave would be staying in that cabin until New Year's. He and his two sisters cleaned it before they moved him in. That saved me some work, that's for sure.
Before Dave moved out of the Maple cabin, John and he closed it down for the winter. They turned off the water and opened the valves. Then John showed Dave the pump house and where the breakers were, etc. He also showed Dave where the pipes had been freezing in Maple and how no matter how many plumbers we have had work on them, they are always freezing in the winter. Dave will see if he can insulate the area better and work on it in his free time. Dave is going to be living here until the spring and in return for rent, he will be doing some improvements around the resort. This is a wonderful arrangement for us and I hope for Dave too.
John then worked on the piers again and finished taking out some sections of pier. He said tomorrow he would like to remove the main pier.
We both finished around 5 p.m. John had said earlier that he would like to use a gift certificate for the Outdoorsman Restaurant that we received from customers. So we went there for dinner. Since it was the night before Halloween, the waitress was dressed like a Greek goddess and the waiter was dressed like a king. That was fun. We ate dinner and then stopped at the Wilderness for a drink. We watched some of the World Series and then went home to see the end of the game.
It was another boring Saturday night at Pine Forest Lodge. We sat and watched television until around 10:30 p.m. and then went to bed. It was a good day.
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