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The Lake House
lighter:
Lake house guests checked out this morning. They watered the plants and would have taken care of trash....just have no plan for it yet.
More than ever, I want to steer clear of Airbnb and into event center waters.
Spoke to a friend in the healing arts. She booked in November.
She's performing a spiritual cleanse on the house and grounds next week.
Lighter
lighter:
We're prepping the lake house for a third group this month. This morning garbage problem gets sorted. Lordy, it's not good.
Potential housekeeping team member worked 8 hours yesterday. She's very quiet and I'm very frank with her. Can't read her much past introverted and likes to vacuum, which I despise and..... she's 21yo and needs or wants lots of supervision. She's a visual learner. I can't tell if she wants to try to manage the entire job or just take an hourly piece. I don't think she knows yet.
I feel better about the job, soup to nuts, bc it's getting simpler and more familiar. DD22 is helping clean bathrooms and run the laundry. I climbed the bunk bed. A little easier this time, but thinking they need to go.
I want to jump to events....pig roasts and chandelier arrangements. It's nice to feel creative joy raise her head again.
The 5 yo had a bag of red suckers. I've traced her movement through the house by sticky stick and fallen bits from her mouth. Her grandma made up for it by cleaning all the beach towels, stripping all beds and leaving me a big box of home grown tomatoes I Fantastic Mr. Fixed last night, twice, SO GOOD! Once with chagio....one of my favorite meals. Almost every plant is alive.... lost a second blueberry bush maybe, but found a huge apple on one of the trees!
Azalias and lemon grass all hanging in there. Ferns, creeping Jenny and Crepe Myrtles as well.
Now....to deal with the trash.
Lighter
lighter:
I think DD22 and I have spent 4 nights at lake working. DD is sick. I've finished trim and another door painting project plus day of potting into the trip....rainy and overcast.... it's feels like a guilty pleasure. So much joy and it rained and will rain a week!!!
That I'm still doing projects means I still can't gage the scope of the housekeeping job, or how many hours it takes and I have a single young woman on board, introverted and somewhat mysterious about her thoughts on the job.
I think she'd try to handle the entire thing (2 full days and nights to handle it) but she'd need help, at least at first. DD says no one person can do it, and she might be right.
We left the lake with another day's work to do. All the plants are flourishing. The patio looks great. Front door is beautiful. Interior looks "like a dream", so sayeth potential new housekeeper.
We've planned a family lake vacation with the Ohio cousins, their daughters/son and 2 adorable granddaughters.....about 2yo and 5yo. Can't wait to build fairy houses when the them and go fishing with them!!!
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lighter:
12 guests checking in today fir 4 nights. Next group of 12 arrives Aug 1. I have 12 days marked off for family reunion with cousins and siblings....their kiddos and 2 grandchildren.
Will be amazing to have house in such neat and clean order, finally.
I have an AC unit ready for install in garage, in case we need overflow beds. Will think about cleaning/painting/scraping ceilings ng texture and window coverings. Contractor coming to deal with small electric and plumbing details. Will see what he's up for.
All in all, I'm excited to discuss possibilities with sibs and begin setting up events....chapel....fixing up large outbuilding, etc.
It's feeling right.
Hopalong:
Wow. It sounds like an amazing and LARGE project. Exciting to develop.
Chapel? I'd love to know more about that. I'm sure there aren't many vacation rentals with chapels. Are you hoping it could work as a rental retreat space for small religious groups?
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