Today's blog is for Monday, November 1, 2010.
The picture was taken from the kayak. John wanted the resort in the background so this is what our resort looks like from the water. Senna, our golden retriever, looks on.
Tomorrow is our day to vote and I volunteered to make some baked goods for the library's bake sale. Nothing is better than the smell of cookies or something good baking in the oven. I love to cook and bake and many of our customers have found out the easy way. Today I will make an apple/pecan pie, a sweet potato pie, and some kind of cookie. I think I will make some almond cookies. So I started and about 2 hours later I was finished, everything was ready to be wrapped up, and the house smelled wonderful.
Now it was time for laundry. I walked up the hill in the sunshine to the Maple and Birch cabins. I pulled out all the laundry from the Birch cabin and it was so heavy, I wish Senna could have helped me. At least she was keeping me company up and back.
The Birch cabin is one of our authentic log cabins which was built in 1938. It has a rock fireplace and a screen porch right up from the lake. It is one of our customers' favorites. I went in and loaded up the bag full of laundry and then took it down to the basement laundry. I did this 3 times and finally all the laundry is out. I did 3 loads of laundry and then called it quits because I didn't have any more room on my basement clothes lines for the damp laundry to finish drying.
John needed to do some laundry so it was a good thing I stopped the laundry when I did. We have to start packing for our trip to Seattle in two days. We will be visiting John's aunt, Georgia, who is very sick. We will be spending a week there.
For the days of my blog when we are in Seattle, I will be writing about stories of things that happened in the past. There are going to be some really fun stories and I hope you will think so too.
John asked me if I could help him load a boat motor onto the wall holder in the basement. So he and I lifted a Mercury 8 hp motor up about four feet onto an old holder made out of 2X4's. After we lifted that one up, we went outside and got the second one off the trailer, brought it into the basement, and then loaded that one up too. John had done most of the work already getting the motors off of the boats and into the trailer. He said the high water really helped this year and that was why he didn't ask for my help up until then.
Then we had to take out some piers. The sun was shining and the lake looked beautiful. We have so many bays on our lake that when the sun starts to set, it is fun to see which ones have sun light on them and which bays are dark. Anyway we had waited for Dave, our "caretaker" to help and since he had just returned from his day job, we started on the main pier.
John put his chest waders on and walked out to the bench of the pier so he could lift the wheels over the rocks. I got into the Toyota LandCruiser and with the rope attached to the pier, and pulled the pier out slowly by backing up the Toyota. Dave was at the base of the pier and he lifted it so it wouldn't drag. I backed up the Toyota as far as we needed and then we did a little by hand. After we got the pier right where we wanted it, I ran to get the ATV. I backed it up to the pier, tied a rope to the ATV and then I pulled the entire pier up the boat ramp to the side of our point, with the guys guiding it along. It was now out of the way for the winter. Phew! That was a lot of work, especially for the guys.
Then John mentioned that since we were both here that we should pull out the pier on the point. We moved it into the shore area about a foot at a time. Soon that one was out too. I was finished for the day and went in to make dinner. John and Dave finished the pier by the Ironwood cabin too, which amazed me. I thought we had all done enough already. They did a lot of work today.
John was sore for awhile and his arms and hands hurt. So after dinner he relaxed on the sofa to watch television and read the paper. I did the dishes and then relaxed too. It was a good day.
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