The house is clean and ready for the first set of three guests to arrive this weekend. They are only staying one night and they told me they didn’t think they would be here before 5:30 or 6:00 this evening. Three more will arrive tomorrow afternoon but are only staying one night. One guest comes in on Monday late afternoon and is staying until Thursday. Three come in on Thursday and stay until Sunday! I will be doing lots of laundry and cleaning this week.
Ran into Cottonwood Falls to cash a check. Picked up my updated business cards. I changed Spiritual Retreat Center to Airbnb on them and removed my website address as I don’t use that any more. Stopped and got a bunch of bananas for the guest fruit bowl. Have some children coming this weekend and most kids like bananas. If I have time I will need to run into Emporia and pick up a prescription. Not sure when it will be ready so may need to do that Sunday instead.
I am tired today for some reason. I slept OK last night in two parts again. I was up early today. The sunrise was beautiful! The sun is way to the North – Solstice is next Thursday so it has almost reached its northern most peak and will slowly start the journey back south.
On Thursday, June 28 I am having a moon rising party. I am providing hot dogs along with the fixings for s’mores. I will also have iced tea and water. Please bring a covered dish to share if you can – a bag of chips works too! All are invited to come around 6:00. The moon rises around 9:25. We will drum the sun down starting around 8:00 and then move to the east yard around 9:00 to watch for the moon to come up. I have a few more beds available that night for only $28 a person (plus sales tax) if you want to come and stay over. I would appreciate a head count so I know how many hot dogs to get. Bring some friends and come enjoy an evening on the prairie. You are welcome to bring some adult beverages with you if you would like to stay cool that way.
Not a fan of this hot, humid Kansas summer this year. We never received our good spring rains – wonder if they will come in July this year. Not sure I want to know what my electric bill is going to be this month. The A/C has been working overtime. I don’t do well in this heat although I am tolerating it much better this year than last year when my thyroid was in overdrive and I was sweating buckets.
Monday I get to drive to Topeka in the morning to go see the Endocrinologist. I haven’t heard the results of the Ultrasound but all the blood work came back really good and I am expecting the same from the Ultrasound. My appointment is at 11:00. I just heard from the guest that is coming in that day and she told me she won’t be here until after 5:00. That gives me more time to get home without racing back to beat her here.
My Airbnb rate keeps slowly creeping upwards. I do their automated rate and the more bookings I get the higher the rate goes up for future bookings. It started really low so I am happy to see it go up a bit. I will continue to monitor how the automated rate works and I always have the option to set the rate if I don’t think they are raising it enough. I certainly don’t want to cheat my guests but compared to the other Airbnb rates in Chase County I am way too low right now. I almost have enough reviews to get the Super Host Label. Not sure others pay attention to that but I bet some do. Most of the guests I have had don’t have reviews on them yet. Guess we are checking each other out!
Went on-line and ordered my car tags this morning. No matter how you pay they charge an extra fee for it. They even charge a fee if you purchase your tags in person. That feels wrong to me somehow. Not sure why they can’t factor their credit card and banking fees into the fixed rate and call it good. Oh wait – it is the government. Guess they don’t have to make sense.
Sitting with a quiet mind today. May go lay down for an hour and rest. My kidneys are still a bit tender and I feel tired today. Going to be a week of busy days around here and I may take advantage of a quiet, empty house this afternoon and take a nap.
Grateful for lots of guests booking and coming to share my house with us, grateful for the views I have on the prairie where I can see the moon rises and beautiful sunsets, and grateful for my A/C that works hard to keep me cool during this hot, humid heat wave Kansas is in right now.