Nine days and eight nights of guests completed. The last guest left this morning. I sure enjoyed my guests and the time they spent with me. I feel like I made several new friends. Most left with promises of returning again in the future.
Learned a lot too. It is much easier doing the Airbnb than doing retreats. I like that the guests are out and about during the day and mostly just here during early mornings and evenings. I love that I didn’t have to fix food! I have another long stretch booked June 1 – June 12. After that group leaves I will make some decisions about any changes I am thinking may need to be made. I also need to see if any more bookings come in. So far I don’t have anything else booked after June 12.
One of my guests was a smoker and although he didn’t smoke inside the house or in his room I will need to wash all the linens in his room to get rid of the smell that he brought in on his clothes. I need to get some no smoking signs to post and an outside butt can.
As I have guests coming Friday night I will wait to clean part of the house until Thursday and Friday morning. This house really does clean up fast.
Finally lost a pound today. 15 days of weight lost drought has ended. Glad I was able to stick to my Bright Lines and trust the program. 19 pounds gone – 22 to go! almost half way to my goal. Finally dropped below 25 BMI.
Tomorrow I have to go into Emporia first thing in the morning to have a fasting blood test done. Will do a few errands while I am in town. Wednesday I am going to KC to pick up a few things for my Italy adventure and Thursday I am going to Topeka to see the Cardiologist. Guests are coming Friday night and leaving Saturday morning. It will be a busy week. I leave May 8 for Italy. May will be here and gone before I know it.
Gave the chickens fresh linens yesterday. The weather forecast is for rain and wind this week and yesterday was so nice I decided to get that project done. I love to watch the girls nest in the new straw. They so enjoy their fresh linens (aka straw).
The cats and dogs enjoyed all the extra love and attention they received from my guests last week. They all behaved themselves as far as I know.
I slept really good last night. I was exhausted as I hadn’t slept well the last several nights. I so appreciate getting a good night’s sleep. I was in bed before the sunset last night so was up early enough this morning to watch the sunrise. I had left my bedroom window cracked open and my bedroom was chilly this morning.
Thanks to all that have liked and shared my Airbnb Facebook page. It helps get the word out. Trusting I will soon have all the business I want to have. Not sure what that number is yet but am trusting I will know when it comes. I need to make sure I have lots of empty space too. This is such a learning experience for me but one I am really enjoying at this point.
Other than laundry and some cleaning I don’t have much on my agenda for the day. Time to sit and enjoy my empty space. I have some videos I want to watch. Several I tried watching last week and kept getting interrupted so gave up.
Grateful for a successful nine days of guests, grateful the last one left today, and grateful for breaking my weight lose drought.