Thursday, May 19, 2011
The picture is of the Longaberger basket I am selling on ebay now along with an antique book from the civil war.
We had plans to go out to lunch with some friends of ours so I had wanted to get up early. Last night Orla had an allergic reaction to the pollen that was floating in the lake. She was itching all evening and couldn't sleep later, so I gave her some vet recommended allergy medicine. She was finally fine at about 11 p.m. and then slept for 4 hours. After those 4 hours and the medicine wore off, we sure knew it and I gave her some more. She slept for 5 hours then and the allergy attack had worn off by then so she was fine the rest of the day. I didn't get good sleep though and the next thing I knew was it was 9:40 a.m.
So my plans for the morning were hurried. I quickly put a coat of varnish on the trim pieces I had stained a couple days earlier. Then we went to lunch. Mitch and Lorrie run the Odonata shop in Mercer, a fine arts store. We have the same tourist season and busy time of the year. So going to lunch was a great time to catch up. I kept worrying about Orla in the car because it was warm. So I went to the window several times and she was fine. Lorrie gave me some brochures for the Art Tour that is in the end of July.
While we were eating lunch, Toni Sendra came into the restaurant and we asked her how her new venture was going. She and her husband are in charge of the Cranberry Inn restaurant and motel. They completely gutted the restaurant/bar and motel and redid it completely. Their grand opening is Memorial weekend but they are open for restaurant business tonight. We were excited for her. Its so rare these days in this territory for somebody to have enough capital to do something so extensive. Its nice to see the results of new building, construction and new decorating going on.
John and I talked with Dave, our caretaker, about a plan for getting the resort spring cleaned and the projects completed. We had to go to Minocqua to see my niece's spring concert that evening so we could pick up whatever we needed. After talking for awhile and working a little in Birch, we realized it was time to go. So we left for the spring concert.
When we got back around 10:45 p.m., Dave was just finishing up in the Birch cabin. He worked really hard to get everything done for the cleaning girls, which was great. The girls will be coming tomorrow at 10 a.m. so I had been worried about that.
It was a good day.
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