Tuesday July 20th 2010

Today is payday!! May have to hire an armored truck to get all that money to the bank!!

I decided to make some bread this morning, no pictures, and decided cinnamon bread would do just fine.  I put a little to much sugar in it and it didn’t stick together very good but it turned out quite nicely. The brown sugar is a little grainy but that’s OK I guess. Still tastes decent.

The workload today was pretty easy and I didn’t get to go over and talk to Maggie early and she thought I probably had the day off or something. When I told her I made bread she kind of understood. She asked for some to see if it was OK.  We took her some.

The main park only had an arrival and a refresh.  That doesn’t take long. Linda and I did a couple little odd jobs that only took a few minutes then we went over to the Lodge and helped Nick and Sherry with a couple rooms. This afternoon we checked cabins to make sure there wasn’t something that looked out of place and the only thing we could find was the grass needed weed eating and Bobby is taking care of that. Other than that they looked great. Nick and Sherry worked on one more room and laundry. That will make a good start for tomorrow.  Johnny Mac will be coming in early, about 7:30AM  I think. Not sure what all he will do in the morning. Pools will need to be cleaned etc.

HMMM.   I just lost a paragraph that I wrote, wonder where it went??? Probably floating around in cyber space some where….  Anyway, I was saying we took the golf cart over to Bob to fix, has a broken wire or something.  He also fixed one of the dryers.  The door that is held up by a chain has the gasket coming out and he glued it back in place.  Should be ready by tomorrow.  We got the carpet shampooer out and shampooed the carpet in Motel #2.  Wanted to do #1 but it is rented tomorrow and really didn’t want a wet floor.  The water was black so I figure the carpet was pretty dirty.  Will do the rest of the rooms, downstairs, when they are vacant for awhile.  #1 room is the worst I think.

After work Linda fixed hamburgers and I lit the grill.  I had a hard time getting paper to burn but after about an hour the charcoal was finally going and I got the burgers on.  Didn’t take long to cook them, it was hot enough outside that I didn’t need a lot of fire, (just kidding).  Burgers were great, I think we will try our new stove tonight.  We will figure out something to fix. Linda is really tired tonight, she should have gone to bed about 8PM but waited until the weather was on.  I think she would have felt better in the morning if she had gone to be.  I felt pretty good for a change, but I was ready after the weather…..sweet dreams Y’all….

Monday July 19th 2010

Got a call last night and I wanted to put this in first.  Our neighbor Daniel called and gave us some good news!!  His son Wesley got saved last night!!  Praise The LORD!!  He was really happy.  I am going to put a picture of the family here, I’m sure you can tell which one is Wesley!

Wesley and Keaton are twins, I can’t tell them apart but Daniel was sure happy, and Keaton is asking questions so it probably won’t take him long.

Now I will go back a ways, it is going to be sunny, hot and muggy again today.  I checked with Maggie this morning about our work load and it doesn’t look real bad.  Next weekend will be the bad one and in the middle of the week it is usually quiet.  Again, Nick and Sherry carried the load.  Linda and I kept busy but didn’t have a lot to do.  I think we may start shampooing carpeting.  Some of the rooms really look bad.  Wanted to wait until Roger came back to work tomorrow.  I’m not sure but I don’t think the owner knows much about that kind of thing but I could be wrong, wouldn’t be the first time.

I don’t know what kind of flowers these are but they are sure pretty.

If you look real close you can see the hummingbird on the left side of the feeder.  They are really fast and seem to know when you are going to take a picture.  There are usually 4 or 5 fighting over the feeder but when you get close or watch, they fly away.

I went the $100 store again last night.  I wanted to get a small propane stove for outside.  It is just to hot inside to use the stove or oven in here. I did find one, I just wanted a one burner stove and the only one they had was a two burner.  It will work.  We are having our “mandatory” pot luck again this Thursday and I didn’t want to heat up the camper any more than necessary. In the afternoon it really gets warm in here, we are parked right in the direct sun for most of the afternoon.  I should probably move to a shady spot, but then it would probably get cold, I doubt that!!

I defrosted our freezer last night.  Our ice cream is really soft and we have a lot of frost on the back of the freezer.  Hope it helps. 

Well, guess I will stop rambling…have a great night Y’all….

Sunday July 18th 2010

Sun is shining and is going to be a beautiful day!!  Hot and muggy though but better than windy and cold.  I think I could get used to this hot weather!

Got a picture of our new microwave and refrigerator!

Not much to look at but we can use the microwave and not have to turn the air conditioner off.  I like that.  Baking will still have to be done in the morning though, to hot in the afternoon.

The day went quite well for us.  I know that Nick and Sherry had a pretty hectic day. They probably did twice what we did, not sure if it is the age but I bet it is because we just aren’t fast.  We got done in time to come to the Lodge and help with one room. Gave them some time though to catch up on the laundry. The laundry at the main park is mostly finished.  Still have a couple blankets to wash and there are still sheets and towels to fold.  Not bad, maybe tomorrow will be a little easier.

Went to church tonight at Friendly Baptist, they had a youth group in from Natchez MS I took a few pictures….

This picture is kind of hard to see but they did a black light skit and it had a really good message, well both of their skits had good messages.

This skit represented the sins of the world and the one on the floor was chained and buffeted by all these sins.  The next picture is the release by Christ from all these sinful habits.

The preachers daughter, from Natchez, was a singer, song writer…

I think she was a good singer but I couldn’t understand any of the words she was singing.  I’m not good that way anyway.  I have trouble with words, tunes I can understand:-)

Now I have another picture that I just have to put in here. It is a spider and we have plenty of spiders here….

This doesn’t show up very well. It is on the tire of our camper. Hope it just eats insects…

We had an early night.  I went to bed about 9:20PM.  I woke up early this morning, about 2AM I think, just couldn’t go back to sleep.  So much for another exciting day in Branson…..Bye Y’all…

Saturday July 17th 2010

HMMMM…wish I could start with something different but it is going to be another hot and muggy day.  When I went outside the camper was just dripping wet and it wasn’t raining!  It is humid!!

After my morning ritual, I  walked down to the office to see Maggie and see what was going on. This is my day off but I like to see what is going on anyway. We go to talking about the weekend and next weekend and it really looks like it is going to be busy.  I think next weekend every room is rented and Sunday there will be 21 checkouts, almost every room. After thinking about this and the schedule change, which wasn’t exactly what I expected, I talked to Linda and asked her if she thought Friday and Saturday would be good days to take off. Reason being, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will be really hectic and Nick and Sherry will be working alone on Monday and Tuesday.  He doesn’t care but I do, if it were me looking at all that work with no help I think I would get a little stressed!  I talked to Roger and Heidi and asked if we could work Monday and Tuesday and try to get the work done before Nick and Sherry had their weekend. My thinking is that we all take different days off and we will never have to work alone!!  Amazing I would think of something like that huh?

Well, after that was all straightened out we had to go to the $100 store to get some groceries.  I got a new (cheap) watch and some new (cheap) tennis shoes and a small microwave oven that we can use outside.  Our air conditioner and microwave will not work at the same time in the camper..  Pops a breaker. By the time we finished it cost over $165!!!  Amazing how easy it is to spend money.

We didn’t do much the rest of the day. Set the time on my new watch, took awhile, then fixed spaghetti for supper. I like our spaghetti, it doesn’t have tomatoes in it or tomato sauce.  We use smoked sausage, onions and garlic, then olive oil to make it slide down better.  Sounds appetizing doesn’t it?  Later on I had to have some chips and guacamole. I get hungry at night for some reason.  I also had a hard time staying awake until after the weather then to bed…..Have a great night catch you tomorrow….

Friday July 16th 2010

It is supposed to be a little cooler today, sure would be nice even though it will only be one day.

Today will be a light day at work. I walked over and talked to Maggie after 8AM to check out the work load.  I think this will be one of the lightest days we have had for awhile.  Nick and Sherry have the most to do so when Linda and I get done we will try to help them at the Lodge.

Saw a bug at the Lodge and wanted to get a picture. Now this bug is pretty small and I had to get really close to see it and the picture is a little blurry but you can still see the colors…

I think that I was only about 6 inches away from this critter but it was sure colorful.  Nick got to see something that I have never seen, a copperhead. It was curled up under a tree.  I wouldn’t know a copperhead from a half dollar, well, maybe a garden snake.

We had meetings today, the office workers had their meeting and the house cleaners, well, we had ours.  It didn’t take long and was to the point, we are short some people so the schedule was changed slightly to cover the gaps.  Shucks!!!  I should have had Roger take a picture of the cleaning crew, just thought about that.  Talk about slow thinking!!  And to think I took a picture of a bug but not the crew… wonder why???

The day went pretty much as planned. We are getting a few supplies in that are needed and Johnny Mac is trying to fix a vacuum cleaner from the “house” that seems like a good cleaner but has a few problems. We have a couple others that need some repairs also.

I was just sitting here trying to think what we did after work….Oh,  I fixed sausage and toast and Linda fried the eggs.  Good supper. For some reason I was hungry the rest of the night. Had some ice cream then some chips and guacamole, and that seemed to help.  I stayed up to watch the weather but sure had a hard time staying awake.  Think I will sleep good tonight….Adios Y’all….

Thursday July 15th 2010

Well (deep subject) I think that it will be another hot one today. It is decent outside this morning and when I finished with my reading and computing I went outside to see if I could help Ron and Barbara get their camper out of the parking spot, which is pretty tight. To late…he was out, hooked up and ready to go.

They have a lot of “stuff” They had it all packed and ready to go though before I got out there. He drives the truck and she drives the SUV pulling the trailer with a motorcycle.  They have 2 motorcycles.  I guess they rode one while they were here, I didn’t see it though.  They are headed for Cherokee NC for another job, hopefully a full time job.

Had to get a picture of Linda’s first day back at work!  She cleans the nooks and crannies I just don’t have patience for.  This is a cabin, called the “cozy cabin”. One bedroom and a futon. It is small but actually I think it would be very comfortable. Not hard to clean but still takes us quite awhile to clean it.  We aren’t very fast. Nick and Sherry did the Lodge and the cabins. They are fast and efficient.  We cleaned the House and did a bunch of laundry, cleaned some motel rooms and really, had a pretty nice day.  Maybe the rush has passed and we will be able to keep up with the flow.

We went to a show tonight called the “Haygoods”. Before we left we were going to go to IHOP and eat but they wanted everyone to meet at the office at 7PM.  Well, we decided to eat at the “Whistle Stop Cafe” here at the main park.  Had a pretty good meal, Linda had BBQ and I had chicken fried steak.  We got to eat with Don and Lil, the cooks.  Hope that was her name.  They are from Willow Brook, IL I think, somewhere around Chicago. They know where Dixon is anyway.  Back to the show, the show consisted of six brothers and a sister and the youngest was seventeen and the oldest I think was thirty three. They had been performing since 1993.  They were talented!  All played musical instruments and sang. They also danced. This was an excellent show.  After the show they had drawings for prizes and Nick and Sherry won $50!!  YES!!  That was nice, there was a pretty large crowd of people there so even one from Compton Ridge winning anything was really good.

Here are a couple pictures I took during the show.  I was surprised some turned out quite well for low light and me holding the camera. I like my little camera!!

I was surprised that this one turned out at all, they were definitely not standing still (above).

The above picture was almost at the end of the show, why do I think that?? It was the last picture I took:-)  This was definitely a show to see.  There are so many shows here in Branson it would take most of the summer to see them all. One of the couples that went with us said that last year they went to 60 shows. I don’t think I am that energetic. They were telling us which ones are really good and the ones that you should leave until last. Good information.

Well we got back to the camper about 10:30PM and it is way past my bed time.  I wasn’t real tired but I know that we have another day of work. We were going to go home this weekend but our friend, Jim mowed our lawn so we decided to wait another week, that will give us about 5 more weeks before we take the camper home. The summer is going great here, we lose a lot of work campers, two left yesterday and another couple left about 3 days ago.  Roger and Robert can’t figure out why it is so hard to keep workers! Anyway, going to bed and get some sleep…Night Y’all…

Thursday July 15th 2010

Well (deep subject) I think that it will be another hot one today. It is decent outside this morning and when I finished with my reading and computing I went outside to see if I could help Ron and Barbara get their camper out of the parking spot, which is pretty tight. To late…he was out, hooked up and ready to go.

They have a lot of “stuff” They had it all packed and ready to go though before I got out there. He drives the truck and she drives the SUV pulling the trailer with a motorcycle.  They have 2 motorcycles.  I guess they rode one while they were here, I didn’t see it though.  They are headed for Cherokee NC for another job, hopefully a full time job.

Had to get a picture of Linda’s first day back at work!  She cleans the nooks and crannies I just don’t have patience for.  This is a cabin, called the “cozy cabin”. One bedroom and a futon. It is small but actually I think it would be very comfortable. Not hard to clean but still takes us quite awhile to clean it.  We aren’t very fast. Nick and Sherry did the Lodge and the cabins. They are fast and efficient.  We cleaned the House and did a bunch of laundry, cleaned some motel rooms and really, had a pretty nice day.  Maybe the rush has passed and we will be able to keep up with the flow.

We went to a show tonight called the “Haygoods”. Before we left we were going to go to IHOP and eat but they wanted everyone to meet at the office at 7PM.  Well, we decided to eat at the “Whistle Stop Cafe” here at the main park.  Had a pretty good meal, Linda had BBQ and I had chicken fried steak.  We got to eat with Don and Lil, the cooks.  Hope that was her name.  They are from Willow Brook, IL I think, somewhere around Chicago. They know where Dixon is anyway.  Back to the show, the show consisted of six brothers and a sister and the youngest was seventeen and the oldest I think was thirty three. They had been performing since 1993.  They were talented!  All played musical instruments and sang. They also danced. This was an excellent show.  After the show they had drawings for prizes and Nick and Sherry won $50!!  YES!!  That was nice, there was a pretty large crowd of people there so even one from Compton Ridge winning anything was really good.

Here are a couple pictures I took during the show.  I was surprised some turned out quite well for low light and me holding the camera. I like my little camera!!

I was surprised that this one turned out at all, they were definitely not standing still (above).

The above picture was almost at the end of the show, why do I think that?? It was the last picture I took:-)  This was definitely a show to see.  There are so many shows here in Branson it would take most of the summer to see them all. One of the couples that went with us said that last year they went to 60 shows. I don’t think I am that energetic. They were telling us which ones are really good and the ones that you should leave until last. Good information.

Well we got back to the camper about 10:30PM and it is way past my bed time.  I wasn’t real tired but I know that we have another day of work. We were going to go home this weekend but our friend, Jim mowed our lawn so we decided to wait another week, that will give us about 5 more weeks before we take the camper home. The summer is going great here, we lose a lot of work campers, two left yesterday and another couple left about 3 days ago.  Roger and Robert can’t figure out why it is so hard to keep workers! Anyway, going to bed and get some sleep…Night Y’all…