Day 1 on the job

August 6 – Day one on the new job!  Well, we didn’t get up any earlier but as soon as we finished breakfast we trudged to the bathhouse for our first cleaning duty.  First thing I noticed outside was a hummingbird checking the feeders on the table outside.  They are both red and he thought he found some breakfast.  I went ahead and made a batch of syrup so it would cool while we were out.

Our Bathhouse

It was not as bad as I thought it would be.  They provide disposable gloves and all kinds of mops, brooms, buckets, chemicals and pretty much anything you could need to clean with.  For me, I need to find a system to be most efficient.  There are a ladies, a men’s and a family bathroom.  The family one is just one small room with sink, toilet and wall shower.  The others have stalls for toilets and showers and the standard counter of sinks.  The worst problem is the ladies hair all over and the tracking on the wet floor as soon as you sweep it.  Today we both mopped and one of the other hosts told us just every other day.  I think it will be as needed.  I can’t do much with that nasty pine sol smell.

We only had 2 sites to do and Bill has started on them before I finished my ladies room.  People here seem to be much cleaner at their sites so mainly it using a leave rake and smoothing over the small gravel.  We need to check the fire pits as they are duel purpose for grills.  They have a rod with a grill on it that swivels over the flame and off and another rod with pot hangers on it.  We will use the grill but we don’t have any pots suitable to hang over a fire.  Not my Green Pans for sure.  Guess I need to watch for some at a yard sale or thrift store. 

After lunch and showers, with our chores out of the way we went to Stuart’s Draft, yes, it’s the name of a town.  They have a few restaurants, fast food places, Food Lion and other small shops but the best place is The Cheese Shop.  It’s owned and run by Mennonites and it’s a cheese and meat deli and bulk food store.  Most of the cheeses I checked were from Ohio, right around my dad’s home town.  They had Lebanon bologna and trail bologna along with regular deli meats.  We bought 3 cheeses and an assortment of other items, one being fried pies.  Yes, there was coconut cream.  I actually bought 2 and Bill picked a red raspberry one.  They are locally made and packaged in wax paper sleeves.  We also stopped at a produce stand and picked up some locally grown produce and topped off the trip with a stop at Food Lion and Diary Queen.  Yum, but too expensive for a daily item.

Greedy little monger

We have a few tiny brown birds so far and right away we had a hummer.  Then another came but the mean little male keeps chasing her away.

I made dinner and we walked our loop.  We loaded 2 loads of wash in the truck and I dropped Bill off at B loop to talk to the hosts there and I went to the Admin office.  No one was using the washers so I could do both loads and use the internet.  I facetimed with Karen and gmail chatted with Kam and posted a couple of blogs and answered some email.  I now have to write down anything I want to be sure to do since I can’t just use my phone for email or to google.  It rained a bit while I was there and I didn’t get back until 9.  I knew Bill would be wondering but of course, he could not call me. 

We watched some TV and had our peach crisp I made earlier.  I think that is really why he was concerned, not about me but his dessert.