April's Writings – Here and Now
Well it looks like it’s going to be a great Labor Day weekend for us. Every room is booked and in fact, I had more calls for reservations than I had rooms. Luckily some of them took dates for next weekend and some went ahead and booked for Halloween weekend and even Thanksgiving.
I hope that each and every one of you has a safe and happy Labor Day. Unfortunately it’s also the sign of Autumn beginning but that’s okay. All things must change!!
Running a business like a Bed and Breakfast is pure pleasure for me but as the times have been tighter lately, then I have really started using discount coupons. I have always been a penny pincher but now I find myself pinching even more.
With a business like mind, there’s always something I’m wanting to buy for the different rooms like grandfather clocks for the old fashioned rooms and the entrance hall. Would you believe that I even found Grandfather clock discount coupons? Well I did and also found some great savings with them. Now I can buy more than I thought I would be able to.
Well it looks like we’ll have the whole house to ourselves this weekend unless we get someone that just happens to drop by to see if we have an opening. That does happen quite often so there’s still hope for the weekend.
Honestly, it would be sort of nice to have a weekend off because that means we can get some time off to do what ever we have thought about doing or just enjoy a relaxing weekend. We shall see!!!!
Most all of my advertisement for my Bed and Breakfast has come from word of mouth. One of the college students that worked for me through the summer and part time after they go back to college has offered to build me a web site about my place. I told them to shoot out some ideas at me and I would let them know.
The more I think of it, the better I like the idea. It could bring in more business and is a good way of getting my place better known in the whole cyber-space instead of just in this area and by word of mouth. I can’t wait to see what he comes up with.
Tomorrow is the last day of July and I don’t know where the time has gone! It’s been a nice cool summer so far and business is down a little but it sure could be worse, ya know, with everything in the mess it’s in. I’m just counting my blessings that business hasn’t been down anymore than it has been.
Oh, about my garden, well everything started coming up and the darn critters found it. You guessed it, the pickings are slim in our garden this year. We don’t usually have much trouble with the critters because we put out all kinds of stuff that’s supposed the keep them away from the garden. I bet that boy that was supposed to do that forgot it. I’ll have to ask him and see. I wonder if he’ll be honest? He better be!
Boy did we get a late start on the vegetable garden this year. First of all it rained and rained and rained. You can’t get into a garden with it’s as wet as ours has been lately. Then when it finally got dry enough to plow and get ready to plant, we had a heck of a time finding plants and seeds.
I am guessing that because of the economy, more and more people are planting gardens this year. That has to be what it was since there’s usually plenty of plants and seeds available most anywhere you go. We’ll keep looking for the seeds we haven’t found yet but if it’s much longer, they won’t grow very well because it’s be too late in the season to plant them.
It’s still cool up here at night and some days are a little chilly but the people are making reservations at my bed and breakfast better than I thought they would. With all of the job losses in the state, I was beginning to worry about my business this spring and summer.
I guess people are planning weekend getaways and vacations closer to home like they did last year. I just hope they keep telling others about my little piece of heaven here in the mountains. Well that’s what it is to me anyway.
Remember me telling you about my new petting zoo? Well all of a sudden, there are baby animals everywhere. What else would you expect with it being full blown spring.
We have twin pygmy goats, one boy and one girl, we have baby chicks running round everywhere, baby rabbits and I think my miniature donkey is expecting too because she’s getting awfully round in the middle. The new babies have been the talk of the town too. Nothing like babies to bring the crowds in, now is there?
I have heard so many people talk about how hard it is to get car loans these days. The banks just aren’t letting go of much of the money they got in their bail out package yet. Until they do, it’s tough to buy a new or especially a used car. Heaven help you if you don’t have absolutely outstanding credit too. You’re chances of getting a loan on a car just went in the can then. My question is this. Just how many of us have absolutely perfect credit? Not many that’s for sure.
Since the economy has done what it’s done, the reason for having less than perfect credit might be of little or no fault of your own either but they don’t consider that at all. I have found a possible solution that helped a friend of mine with get refinancing with nowgetloan.com. It not only lowered his monthly payment but also helped him possibly save a bit of his credit rating.
I was amazed at how easy the whole process was for him. All he had to do was fill out the application securely right online and has his answer a lot faster than he would have from a bank. Their applications are not as rigid as a banks either. They are sure worth checking into if you need a loan or refinancing.
I really need some extra storage space and I found it at carguygarage.com. It’s a family owned company that has everything I’m looking for to create extra storage space in my garage. This is the best part of this site, if you know of a product they don’t have, you can call them and they’ll try and get it. That’s what you get when you go with a family owned company. That type of service is something a lot of companies have gotten away from and that also might be one of the reasons other companies fail too but that’s my opinion. So if you’re looking for storage help, I highly recommend you check out this site. I bet you’ll find just what you need.