Football, Trim & Housekeeping

Cabin 2

Cabin 2 from the outside, that pull out space is the bath we are residing

Today was a perfect example of the way I expect my days to go. While each is going to be different, today seemed to have a blend of everything.

We did not get up early, it being New Year’s Day and all, but we did get active pretty quick once up and coffeed. I started with responding to emails and pricing out a few cabins, took a call on a left behind Jacket, and opened a cabin for today’s check-in.

Pretzel and I enjoyed a great dog walk twice around the cabin loop and back to the main house in our -5 degreed morning and then met our departing guest to close out their bill. I learned how to use the credit card app on the new cellphone today and did it successfully! TWICE!

Then I headed down to start on housekeeping, but not before stopping in to see Victor in Cabin 2 where he has removed the fixtures and walls to rebuild them with the traditional pine car-siding that we have been using in our improvements. He is down to the final trim pieces. Then we install the toilet, a new sink/vanity/faucet & mirror and towel racks. Victor also fixed a pet pieve of his where the light switch should be at the entrance to the bathroom rather than across the room. We can’t wait to see what our Cabin 2 returning guests have to say.

I move next door to get started on my cabin cleaning with the TV on so I can yell at the news when appropriate. We head back to the front and have a great lunch. After lunch we head to the Den to watch the final quarter of the Badger Capital 1 Bowl Game, which we lost, but we did enjoy the turnover excitement of the last few minutes of the game. It was a non-beer day for me.  (I am Celebrating dry January again this year with 100 near strangers in a Facebook Group!) We are now back at Cedaroma where I am knocking out some month/year end work on the computer while Victor catches up on some of his beauty rest that he loses when working his odd-hour shifts.

In between all that I spent some time with the puppy working on listening skills, a little healing and some name recognition. Seems he doesn’t much like the name Pretzel. He rarely responds to it. We are thinking of giving him a new name and hyphenating it. A name he will respond to. Andy, Vince and Clark are forerunners in the naming process. I don’t get how parents can name their kids at birth without knowing their personalities. I am thankful that I didn’t have to struggle with that challenge.

That’s it for today’s fun….. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings.

Moving day… Again!

The Cedaroma Lodge puppy gets a new name!

Meet Pretzel, the newly named puppy

Yesterday we moved back up by the main house. Our favorite cabin, 7, is rented this coming week. I love our little space up here, cute as a button… but very cold. So today we went to the hardware store to get what we needed to install one of those baseboard heaters. I like t

hem much better than the little fan heaters, I always think those are going to get hot, tip over and start a fire, especially with a new puppy in the house. Who, by the way, got his name today. Pretzel

So, I get a little heat and the dog gets a name. It’s a good day!

New Dog Week

Monday on my way home from the Upthagrove Family Christmas weekend I was allowed to pick up our new rescue dog, a week earlier than anticipated.

New Puppy waits in the snow

The new puppy loves snow, but not picking a name!

The puppy’s “rescue name” is Jack, but we will come up with a personallity based name. We have spent the week so far learning the puppy and him us. We have brought out our best names and presented them again and again. Yet he remains straight faced about all of them. Non committal. It’s very frustrating, some of the names have been good ones.

We brought the naming project to our facebook fan page, http://www.Facebook.com/Cedaroma and received over 200 name suggestions reaching over 3400 people. It was an exciting week for us online, but “dog” remains unconvinced. We have put a deadline on the naming project at Monday. A week is long enough. If he doesn’t help pick a name, we will just assign one. I suppose that is how most people do it anyway, though in 3 dogs, I have not. Bob, Goose….and TBA.

To be continued….