279 Day of 365 of What it is Like to Run a Resort

The picture is from Door County where we stayed for the winter at John's mom's place. It was nice to do something different but we are glad to be back home.

Yesterday was Monday, April 18th, 2011. We arrived on Sunday after being gone awhile. As we were unpacking our stuff from the long time away, we saw something we'd never seen before. We heard a strange peeping sound sort of like when you clean windows and the squeak of the cloth against the glass. We looked up and saw two eagles playing with each other as they circled and teased each other in flight. They were making peeping noises and in the updraft, they circled just over our trees. They were so close I could see them turn their heads to get a better look at us and the puppy (yikes). We just looked up and watched them. Orla did too, which was cute.

I went to the grocery store to stock up our kitchen. Then I did some laundry, paperwork, computer work and various odds & ends around the house. Dave, our caretaker, ate lunch with us and we had to check out his work in the Birch cabin. The bathroom is completely finished and looks great. The expansion of the bathroom took up a lot of the living room space though. We contemplated getting a different heater that would take up less space too, and putting the heater in a different cabin. We'll see.

I walked around with Orla a bit and visited with a neighbor who came over to see the puppy. It was nice to see her and she said her kids are bugging her to come and play with the puppy so they'll probably be here after school today. I guess I'll have to bake some cookies (yeah!).

There is still ice on the lake and the shoreline is very dark/mushy. So we will have to watch Orla very closely until the lake opens up. She just loves the snow and rolls around in it every chance she gets. At the vet's yesterday she weighed 16.8 pounds. She's getting big fast. I'll try to post a more recent photo of her soon.

Today we'll try to get some major projects going but you never know what might happen to change that (hopefully).