The picture is of Orla, our little golden princess, sitting by our living room doorway. She is so cute. This morning she woke up at 5:10 a.m. It had just started to snow then as I was standing outside in my robe. The smell of fresh air with impending precipitation, and watching the puppy run around was amazing. We ended up just getting a dusting of snow.
Yesterday was Tuesday, April 19th. John and I both did our own thing. I cleaned the house, a lot, and played with Orla. I took her on a walk and went with her into the Balsam cabin. I grabbed the 3-ring binder that was there and decided to update the information it contains. There is a 3-ring binder in each cabin. We have our info inside including a brochure, lake map, resort map, rules, and Mercer information. Last year the health inspector said we are "ahead of the game" and that other resorts will probably have to do something like that in the future. I wonder if they got the idea from us. Sorry about that all you resort owners if that's the case.
Orla was going toward the lake later and I yelled at her, "No! Orla, come!" And just then a loon on our lake squawked at me. It's song was music to my years. The loons are back! I was so happy! Even though its snowing, the spring season is still coming.
I am amazed at the price of gas right now. It is $4 a gallon here and going up. I heard on the news that it is because of speculators. Can you believe it? That is so stupid - they're getting millions for their speculating and we're all suffering. I hope the prices don't go up too much higher or our customers will balk too.
We still have 8 openings for our summer. They are: June 18-25 Spruce & Hemlock; June 25-July 2 Balsam; July 2-9 Spruce & Cedar; July 16-23 Maple; Aug. 6-13 Spruce; Aug. 13-20 Balsam. If you know anyone who might be interested, please give us a call at 715-476-2241 or e-mail us at: info@pineforestlodge.com Any help would be appreciated. I can't believe we still have an opening for July 4th week.
We will take pictures of the Birch and Alder cabins as soon as they are finished and post them on our web site. It will be weeks though so be patient. The floor in Birch is going to be sanded down and varnished too. The wood floor in there was covered up with indoor/outdoor carpeting a very long time ago. Hopefully it is okay to sand/varnish.
Every day I wake up this time of year, I wonder what I should do. There are so many things that I could do that the list seems endless. Because its cold, I can't paint or do gardening, but that just narrows the list in half. Today I could do any of the following (just to give you an idea): get laundry out of the cabins & call for pick-up; pull up carpeting in Birch and/or Alder to help the process; move furniture around in the cabins to get ready for carpet removal; remove a refrigerator from Alder; remove kitchen stove from Alder to get ready for new floor; finish sewing quilts for twin beds in Spruce; laundry or paperwork that could take all day; 3-ring binders for cabins; paint interior of cabins ceilings; clean up basement area to make room for treadmill we'll be getting; put dahlia bulbs in pots to start them; play with puppy; go into town to visit stores & library that I've missed all winter; and the list could go on but I just don't want to think about it any more. What should I do? I feel tired already - maybe I should take a nap. I guess you'll find out tomorrow what I did today.
Yesterday I vacuumed the entire house, gathered rocks for a memorial garden for Buddy & Senna (for their ashes); did some laundry and made a big dinner amongst little things I also did. I bought a stone that is engraved "here lies a faithful friend and companion" for their memorial garden.
I'm so glad we didn't get the 6-10" of snow they were predicting. But south of us they did and I feel sorry for them.
Hopefully this afternoon/evening the two neighbor kids will come to play with Orla. I baked cookies in anticipation of their arrival. I am looking forward to it. They didn't make it yesterday because they went to the gym for "open gym" or something with their parents. I can understand that.
Have a great day!
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