Life Here

What does our life/work look like here you ask? 

Projects we’ve worked on: 

• Online reservation capabilities! We have initiated an online reservation platform. The campground used to be phone and paper reservations. It was a tad bit crazy. I was scared when a gust of wind came in we might literally lose a reservation. None of that any more. The website still needs a facelift and then there will be a link where guests can book themselves online. Right now most people still call and we put them into the system. 
• Keeping up with the grounds! On a weekly basis there is something to do around the park. Can be as simple as walking the park and picking up trash/ dog droppings 🙈. We have cleared some fence off that was very over grown. Trimmed trees. Trimmed brush along our roads in the park. Painted caution poles. Snow removal. Maintenance type things.
• The Air BnB apartment! The old owners lived on site in a 2 bedroom, 1 bath living area connected to the office. After walling off the office from the apartment space there has been loads and loads of remodeling and the apartment now has tenants! It will be more of an Air BnB for nightly or weekly guests this summer. We unloaded boxes galore, getting it up and ready! The boys loved that part! 

On a weekly level of work there’s collecting quarters from the laundry machines and vending machine. Rolling said quarters, and making deposits at the bank. Refilling the vending machine. There’s cleaning the one public bathroom and the laundry room area. Chase has mastered propane refills for guests. A majority of our guests are monthly stays so electric meter reading and rent collecting is always a happening at the beginning of the month.

Each morning we try to do a bit of school for the boys. We’ve focused hard on reading and math for Mac. Letters/sounds and numbers for Merrick. Last February we started a reading program with Mac and he recently finished the last, 100th lesson which we celebrated! We deem him a reader! It is still slow and he sounds things out but it’s reading!

Also, can I just point out how tricky the English language is?! Why don’t give and hive rhyme?! Or said and laid? “When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking”… well yeah that works with the word road…but what about weigh, bread, earth and noise?! So to anyone who has ever learned to read….kudos to you and to the human who taught you!! (And thank YOU for choosing to read this! 😉)