Crochet Me Crazy

I got up early this morning and dug in this morning. I got a funny looking little truck loaded up with my cleaning supplies. Alison helped me and we cleaned 3 cabins after people checked out.
Certainly not "fun" but it wasn't too bad. I'm either a really bad person for the job or a really good person for the job...depending on how you look at it. I tend to clean very thoroughly when I clean and I kept telling myself this is not the "Ritz Carlton" I'm cleaning here. These aren't fancy cabins and they are old so they've seen years of use. There was no way to get them clean to my standards. There's no A/C in them either so I was sweating like a pig and its not even summer yet! The lady from the visitor's center came and talked to me and wants me to drop in to train and see if I want to do that. Maybe, I'll clean cabins one day a week and work in the visitors center one day a week and then work at the Stables and get paid the other days of the week. Then, we walked the dogs since they had been cooped up all day and I took pictures in the wild flowers.


Then, Alison and I went and cooled off in the river for bit. I went to the wash room and washed 2 loads of laundry, cooked dinner, and then we went and dropped the kids off to swim in the swimming area and then picked up a camper that Jeff met this morning while doing his rounds to take him to the other side of the park to look at the camp sites over there. He didn't have a "dingy" on his motor home and its too far to walk. We're just now settling down for the night and its almost 10 pm already! I'm tired!

Another bit of good news is that we found out today that they have an ice machine next door at the maintenance area that we are free to use. Our family drinks a lot of water and we don't have ice in the camper. We keep one of those big coolers filled with water and ice on a table ouside under the awning. That's pretty much all we drink and we've been having to buy a $5.00 bag of ice every few days when it melts. Ice is premium around here! Between the free laundry and the free ice, we're probably going to be saving at least $100 a month by staying here!

Jeff got paid for the screen porch portion of his job. So we're tucking away a little money to buy some homeschool curriculum for the kids. He got the tile down in the bathroom today. He starts on the job fixing stairs Monday and Tuesday of next week. Then, I do believe that he'll be tiling the screen porch he just built after that.

Our park host neighbor (she's been here for years) has a bunch of stuff she has collected that people leave or throw away. People throw away tents and she's giving the kids a tent so they can set up camp in the back yard. She gave us three lawn chairs (our are 10 years old and pretty shot). A neat thing that she gave me was a hammock. It is (or was) a very nice crocheted cotton hammock but it was ripped. It's funny because I have been browsing around for patterns and have been thinking I want to make a hammock! I'm going to end up using the wooden parts of it and I'm going to re-make the whole thing. Another new crocheted project is coming soon! Now, if I can just ever have time to crochet again!