Wednesday, November 3, 2010.
I got up and hit the ground running. Even before I got dressed I started rearranging the furniture in the lodge. I had my pajamas on as I moved the lodge's log futon, moved chairs around and set up a portable table. I got dressed and then swept, vacuumed and cleaned the bathrooms. Making a cake was fun and after I did that I made breakfast for myself.
A couple of hours later the Chamber of Commerce Board members started to arrive. They brought food, snacks and desserts. There were so many food items that I didn't need my chocolate/coffee cake. So I will take that to Milwaukee tomorrow.
John and I were told to introduce ourselves and then everyone at the meeting did after us. I looked around after John introduced himself and saw that everyone was listening intently. John rarely goes out into town and I wondered if a lot of them had ever seen him. I'm sure they had heard of him and all he has done for people with disabilities. So it was nice that they finally got to meet him. It was also nice that the Chamber met here. They got to see our view and the layout of our cabins, which we think is great. John got in his two cents worth regarding promoting our Turtle River chain. It seems like Mercer is only promoting the Turtle Flambeau Flowage and are forgetting all the other wonderful things we have to offer.
I only wanted to speak for 2 minutes wherein I said I was from Woodruff and that I moved up here in 2000. Then we ate lunch. People talked a little bit and then their meeting started. I liked that we weren't required to attend, in fact, we were told that it was not a meeting we could have put any verbal input into. So we left.
I went around the outside of our house to the basement and did some laundry. I was down there for quite awhile and then I heard some clapping and moving about. So I went upstairs to see if anyone wanted a soda or drink or anything and they did. They then invited us to attend the rest of the meeting(s) and I did. John was working on paperwork in readiness for our trip to Seattle tomorrow night so he didn't attend.
Around 7 p.m. they were gone and I was exhausted. I had been running around cleaning up after the mess and cleaning up the kitchen. Now I was finished and made us all dinner.
Earlier I had gone up to the Birch cabin to talk with Dave. John had told me that Dave was up there putting the cultured stone on the front of the cabin, and he wanted me to tell him what my thoughts were on the bathroom of that cabin. Dave was going to fix it up. We talked about it, took some measurements, and brought John over. When we were outside looking at the Birch cabin, we noticed another squirrel hole in the outside wall - those BUGGERS! Dave said he would fix it.
After that I helped John finish the plumbing in the Maple cabin. He doesn't like how the plumbers finished the plumbing in there. It is very difficult to shut down for the winter and get all the water out of the pipes. He worked in there until after 7:30 p.m.
Later we finished packing for our trip and I confirmed our flight on-line. We were going to have to do some more paperwork and such tomorrow, but for now we were too tired to do anymore. It was a good day.
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