Let the summer BEGIN!!!!

Hey everyone!!  Me again :)

This week has been good.  Busy busy!  Another whirlwind!  I will just make a brief list of things I have done this week..the things I can remember that is.. :)

• Painted the BARn floor--didn't finish until 11:30 p.m. :)
• Made slug traps out of yogurt containers and a homemade yeast mixture that we found online because the boys didn't want us to use their beer..haha
• Dragged trash cans into the forest and filled them with moss to put them in the bottom of the hanging baskets
• Picked spruce tips (if you don't know what they are--I didn't..--they are the very end of the spruce tree that buds and then flares out and gets all fluffy.  You pick them when they are still little and you can cook with them!!)
• Put this wax stuff on the bottom of the boat so barnacles and stuff don't grow on it
• Moved lumber
• Hosed off the cabins
• Deep cleaned inside the cabins
• Helped in the kitchen etc. etc. etc

Here we have the lovely Caitlin modelling the rain gear and safety techniques for the four wheeler :)

There is just a brief list of my week.  Its been really busy!!  We had much needed rain all day on Friday.  It was fantastic!!  We did have to wear this really goofy rain gear (which I will have to take a picture of at some point :) ) so that we could work in it.  I still got pretty wet though :)  As we were hosing off the cabins (in the rain..haha) we were trying to figure out if this hose worked or not and it turned out it didn't--and my face was the victim of that one!!  I was already wet so that fact that I sprayed myself full fledged in the face didn't make much of difference..but it was funny :)

So we got our first guests of the season here yesterday!  They are a really cool family from Texas.  The dad is the Mayor of Round Rock Texas.  The mom and dad have been here before and love it.  This is the dad's first time and the mom's second time.  They wanted to bring their two kids (ages 21 girl and 19 year old boy).  They are loving it so far.  It is fun to have other people around to get to know :)

My schedule will be a tiny bit different now that people are arriving.  It is tentatively as follows:
7:00-7:30 in the kitchen making lunches for the boat/helping get breakfast on the table although Brian does and AWESOME job at that so we mostly just do lunches.

8:00--we eat breakfast with the guests

9:00ish--clean up breakfast and tidy kitchen

The rest of the day will be spent doing chores and such-whatever needs to be done.  We should be getting a little bit of free time in between.

Pondering the meaning of life..is there more to pinecones and gardening?? :) haha..OF COURSE!!!

Around 4-5ish we will show back up in the kitchen and help with dinner prep in any way we can.  Dinner is at 7ish (depending on when the guests get back from fishing and other things of the day).  When guests get back with all the fish, at some point I will be helping with cleaning and prepping the fish for vacuum sealing.  That will be fun :)

We will clean up after dinner and then do whatever prep is needed for the next day and then do whatever the guys ask us to do!  Then we will call it a day :)  So that's basically what I will do as far as I understand.  We will see how it is when it comes down to it!! :)

I do like it here a lot.  It is definitely an adjustment and can be hard, but overall I am learning a lot and I am happy.  It sure is beautiful.  The most serene place I have ever been.  I am so grateful for this opportunity and am so excited to see the summer fly by as I stay busy and meet some really cool people!!

Well, thanks for all of your support!!  Keep being awesome! :) 

Yet another shot of how beautiful it is here