Thursday, July 26, 2007

Worker Bees

Yesterday Laurie and Chip went into caretaker mode and cleaned and polished everything in sight.

We have new river tubes and the older tubes are all washed off and inspected. Chip trimmed the boardwalk edges. He looked like a real pro running that trimmer complete with goggles and ear plugs. Laurie washed the bocci ball set and the playground swings. She watered all of the plants and just generally cleaned up.

Jana and Dylan played in the river, and then swept the entire boardwalk. Dick and Chip loaded up every stray item and went to the dump and then Dick mowed the entire property!

I rode around in my golf car and kept an eye on everything as the official documentarian. I liked my job the best.

Laurie and Chip worked all afternoon and were still looking for things to do.

We celebrated all of the hard work with dinner at Mongolian Barbecue.

By the way, while we're on the subject, does anybody else think that Mongolian Barbecue is going downhill? Things seemed a little off - for instance, the salad bar and the food bar both needed replenishing and wiping up - they weren't neatly maintained. The counter where you wait by the grill was sticky and badly needed to be wiped off. There was spilled food on the steps, and spilled beverages on the floor - I was really quite shocked. Plus - when the waitress brought brown rice and I asked for white rice, she indicated that they were out of white rice - what's up with that? Dylan ordered raspberry lemonade, and as it turned out they were out of that too.

But the food was good and everyone enjoyed it, so that's the bottom line. But I still think the manager needs to crack the whip a little bit.

Mom's service is tomorrow morning and the forecast looks like rain. As Dick said, we have lots of umbrellas. The forecast for GenFest looks wonderful.

1 comment:

Melissa said...

You guys have been busy as usual!! I'm impressed, we could use a little of your energy here in Kalamazoo. We have been trying to finish up last minute projects at our current house so we can get it on the market. I'm sure I'm over optimistic that it is going to sell within the first few weeks, however I have been "staging" the house to sell so I hope it all pays off. I must say it looks better than it ever did during the 14 years we've lived here!! How sad !!!

We have also been busy at the new house, drywall is up, primer is on all walls, we are just waiting for the trim to be delivered and the flooring. Oh, and I have figure out the tile since the original tile we selected put us over budget...SHOCKING! (NOT) Peter has been busy building a retaining wall at the new house also, so needless to say all this plus 2 children and 2 full time jobs is a bit much...which leads me to the point of my long paragraph...we will not be making the trip for GenFest. Mainly because Peter was denied time off for Saturday and my list of "to do's" is getting longer by the hour. Autumn is really disappointed,she was looking forward to hanging out with Dylan, but she has also been traveling alot these past couple weeks so I think she'll get over it quick. Anyway, we will miss you all and hopefully we will catch up some time in the near future. All our love, Peter and Melissa