My long-term boarder gets to have the rest of the week off after today so he checked out this morning and won’t be back until Sunday afternoon. After working so many hours last week I am sure he will appreciate an extra long weekend.
My other guest got in last night a little after 7:00. She is a very lovely young woman from Germany. I couldn’t see her picture very well on the Airbnb site and for some reason had thought she was going to be a he. It was a surprise to see a woman when she came in. We had a nice conversation this morning over breakfast. She is out and about seeing the Flint Hills Tallgrass Preserve today. She was a foreign exchange student when she was in high school and is going to visit the family she lived with while she was in school tomorrow.
No other guests coming until Friday afternoon so I will have a couple of free days this week. That will be a nice break for me. I have the two rooms refreshed and flipped so once the towels are out of the dryer and put away my hosting chores for the day are done.
I did get another booking for the last weekend in July. The Airbnb site has finally started to raise the rate, especially for weekends. This will be my first booking at the higher rate. Glad to know people will book at that rate.
My feet ached last night for the first time in a long time. Not sure what caused them to hurt. I finally got up and took some Advil so I could get them to quiet down so I could sleep. I didn’t get much sleep but at least got some.
Got my electric bill yesterday. Ouch! I don’t remember one as high before. We didn’t catch much of a break from the heat for the last 30 days. Can’t remember a summer as relentlessly hot as this one has been. No end in site yet either. Time to turn up the thermostat a degree or two to see if I can somewhat limit the damage for next month’s bill.
Not much else I have to do today. I have been sitting way too much lately doing my embroidery work but nothing else seems to make me want to get up and do something else. Too hot to go outside to do anything. I can always find some cleaning to do but I have to wait till the mood hits most times to do that.
May run over to Manhattan tomorrow to visit some dear friends. I’ll see what time my guest leaves tomorrow. I have until Friday to flip her room so should be able to get away for the afternoon.
Still trying to find some real red oak 1/2 inch quarter-round. A lumber yard in KC said they could make some for me but I have to go sign the purchase order and pre-pay for it and then would have to go back in 15 days to pick it up. Not sure it is worth two trips to KC to get. He is to give me a price quote so I can decide if it is worth it. I’ll check with the hardware store in Manhattan if I drive over there tomorrow to see if they have any. Who knew it would be so hard to find.
Got a notice from Social Security that the Medicare charge will start being deducted from my July Social Security check. Not sure why they deduct it early. I’ll have to pay that plus my health care insurance payment for July. That along with the high electric bill will take my extra spending money in July. Good thing I have lots of guests booked for July – I’ll need that income to keep the lights and A/C on.
Wish I could find some motivation to do something. It seems to have evaporated in the heat. Evidently the lazy days of summer have found me and I have stepped into embracing being lazy these days. Guess if something exciting comes up I will get motivated to do something.
Grateful for a couple of free days on the calendar for this week, grateful for the lazy days of summer and the rest for my body they provide, and grateful I can afford to keep the lights on and the A/C on!