Celebrate!

Today is a day for celebration! We finished moving boxes out of the front of the camper, and from over the top of the bed. We now feel like we’re living in a mansion, and we can sit at a table to eat or type or play cards, rather than slouching in the camp chairs and using our laps as tables. We also moved everything out of the first cabin, so all we have to do there is rip down the drywall ceiling and we’re ready to spray for termites. We decided to break our rule and get some help with that job, so we’re asking around for someone willing to do a few days of messy work, and finding that it’s hard to find people willing to even think about work on the weekends. Manana…

We had pretty heavy rain for most of the night last night, so Tom’s big task for the day was to attempt to dump the water pools in the tarp over the camper without dumping the water on top of the camper, where we know it would drip inside. He ended up being soaked, but the camper remained dry. Another task for tomorrow is to figure out a way to rig up the tarp so the water won’t pool, and won’t get on the camper roof.

We took part of the afternoon walking around and visiting neighbors. We met a woman who lives up the road and runs a bar with her husband (who was out shopping), then went over to see Jim and Sharon’s place. They’re planning to open their lodge in November, and while what they have is a work in progress, it’s going to be beautiful. They’re looking for a completely different clientele than what we have in mind, so neither of us is threatened by the other as competitors. Instead, we’re looking forward to pooling what we all know and find out to make this area in general even more attractive to visitors.