The first set of guests have checked out although I am babysitting their dog for a couple of hours. They were going to the Tallgrass Preserve for the bus tour and couldn’t take the dog on the bus. Kathy helped me bring up a crate from the barn for the dog last night. The dog whines off and on but since he peed on my floor once already he is not getting out.
Have the second load of laundry going so I can get the beds made up for the group of guests that are checking in this afternoon. May not have the towels put away before the next guests arrive but should be able to have the beds made up. Have the rooms all cleaned up and trash emptied so it won’t take long to finish up once the laundry is done.
Tomorrow I will get to repeat the bed making process as the guests coming this afternoon are only staying for one night. I have a single guest checking in late Monday afternoon. She is staying until Thursday and I have four guests checking in Thursday who are staying until Sunday. Another busy week on the prairie coming up!
Pressed the two finished sets of tea towels last night and stamped another set. This will be my last set unless I order some more tea towels. I almost ordered a bunch more tea towels today but am going to sit with it a bit longer and then decide if I really want to make a bunch more. Not sure what I would do with them. The tea towels are getting so expensive to buy I now have to charge $50 a set just to recover my costs plus just a little for my time. I am probably making $0.50 an hour for my time! Not sure people will pay that much for a set although I did sell one set at that price to a guest. She is from the West Coast and I am sure prices are a bit higher out there then they are here. They are a very high quality tea towel but not sure I would pay $50 for a completed set. I can only give away so many sets. I do enjoy making them though.
Sent a note to the neighbors I buy straw from to see if they would be interested in mowing and baling my front and side yard. I told them they could have the hay if they would burn the pasture come spring time and give me 10 bales of straw which I use for the chickens. She is going to discuss it with her husband and then get back in touch with me. My next door neighbor used to burn it and arrange for someone to mow and bale it. He didn’t burn it this spring so am exploring options If anyone knows of someone who might be interested in doing it let me know. It is about 20 acres so not sure it is big enough to drive equipment here from very far away.
Another very hot and humid day out today. Thinking I will stay inside until evening today. I need to go into Emporia and pick up a prescription but may wait until tomorrow to do that. Not sure what time my guests are arriving this afternoon but I know they are checking out early tomorrow as they want to be in Council Grove by 8:30. I’ll have lots of time tomorrow to go into Emporia to pick it up.
Got the name and phone number of a handyman from Cottonwood Falls from a friend. I need to call him this afternoon to see if he would be interested in replacing a deck board and a base board for me. Both of those projects have been on my list of things to take care of quite a while and I just haven’t been able to find someone to take care of them for me. Seems like there is always little projects like that I need to find someone take care of. I don’t have the tools or the know how to do them myself.
Sitting in my peaceful valley today. My mind is quiet and the monkey chatter has quieted down Love when that happens. Wish I could learn how to make it happen but am always grateful when it does. I appreciate these moments of quiet in the house more now too since they don’t happen as often as they did before.
Grateful for easy guests – even when they bring a dog that pees on my floor, grateful for a house that cleans up easily, and grateful for the oasis of peace I have found within again.
Kay, it makes me tired to read about all of the laundry and changing sheets! When we were running our Airbnb house I finally learned to perfectly fold fitted sheets! LOL Our house was 7 miles away so it was easier to have multiple sets of everything so we could get in and out of the house in about an hour and just take the sheets home to wash. It was hard work, but also a lot of fun–getting to meet the guests etc. Yours sounds like more fun though since you get to spend some quality time with them.
I was just thinking today it would be faster to flip the rooms if I had a second set of everything. May need to consider that if I stay this busy for much longer.