June 12-19, 2011
I can't believe I let an entire week of my blog go by. Time flies when you're having fun. Since I can't remember what days what happened, I'm just going to throw everything in a bunch.
Almost every day I can hear the eagles talking to each other. They have a funny peep, peep as they soar in the air, and an occasional screech. They must have a nest around here somewhere close.
The loons have 2 eggs ready to hatch on the island. We alerted the Lake Association president and he, in turn, notified everyone on the lake association to stay off the island. Too bad the lake otters, raccoons, eagles and other predators won't heed the warning too. Hopefully they'll make it.
The air turned cool this week. We had a lot of overcast days with some rain. So you know what happens then - mosquitoes. We have a bumper crop this year.
John and Dave fixed a pier, installed a heater in Balsam, put a different one in Cedar, cut down some trees for better views, installed a pole for electrical, cleaned up a huge mess a bear made out of our dumpster, went kayaking with customers, and various other regular stuff.
I had the cleaning girls come on Saturday so that meant stripping the dirty laundry out of the cabins, getting the bags of clean laundry made up and put in the cabins, and various other running around things. Pam and I made a trip to Minocqua to the new quilt shop there, and the old one, and spent some time talking about stuff. The bar was full several nights with a lot of people, which is always fun. I even got out to lunch with Bridget one day.
My brother asked if we could watch their dogs, a yellow and a black lab. We got them on Thursday and will have them until Monday evening. They are spoiled rotten and love to sleep on the sofa every chance they get. The only problem with that is they are shedding. So I have been kicking them off.
A friend came and gave me two huge containers of fabric. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAGGIE!!! So I guess God is telling me I'm going to live awhile longer because I have a lot of work to do now. I finished my daughter's baby quilt and organized my sewing room. Dave will probably be staying in our basement for the rest of the summer and my sewing room is a little smaller now because of that. So I had to get things better organized.
The flowers are all planted now. I still had a few impatients on the deck waiting to be put in dirt. So they are all looking pretty now in pots here and there. I love flowers.
Its a good thing I did the gardening about a week ago because of the rain and the mosquitoes, I would be bit up. When John had to fix a plumbing problem, he had to be outside and he said the skeeters were so bad he had to apply the bug repellent twice.
So for the first time all summer this year, we are entirely booked. Some customers will leave on Monday (got here Thur.) and some will leave Wed. but we are booked for now and loving it. I woke up on Saturday and said to John, "Happy first full Saturday!" Finally we can get back to paying everything in full rather than making small payments. Finally we can make deposits instead of cashing in stock. Finally it is summer. Yippee!!!
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