Happy Birthday
David!!
David is our nephew, he is tall and very handsome. After graduation he enlisted in the Marines, serving in Iraq.
He works in the IT department for the Baltimore Zoo. He is an avid Baltimore Orioles fan. He has plans to be married to a wonderful girl, Katie in October 2010.
Have a Great Day David….We send our love!!
We survived our Monday, which in our case is really Tuesday, and both still have our jobs and it didn’t rain!
The Head Cheese sent out a memo to all departments stating that revenues to budget were down 100k for July and since payroll accounted for 1/3 of the budget they had to reduce payroll by 33k.
Therefore 10 people have been let go. Some were work campers and some were locals. No other cuts are anticipated at this time but who knows.
The Cheese also stated that weekend business was up but weekdays were down indicating people were not staying as long as last year. Probably in part due to the economy and the fact this July was the wettest on record for the region. Rain follows us, we should get hired in drought areas.
Maybe we should put “Drought Busters” on our resume?
We have been somewhat formulating our travel plans for this fall and winter. Still a lot of stuff up in the air. (Or as Ellie would say formed in Jello) Some things are pretty definite. When we leave here we are going to Elkhart, Indiana to see some of the RV factories and museums.
Might even replace our dinette to a round table. From there we are on to Hannibal MO. to visit the E&M Dray . After Missouri it is on to Colorado to see the children and grandchildren and meeting our future daughter-in-law. From there things start getting a bit cloudy.
Just pre-planning this stuff really gives me hitch itch.
Anyways we will get it all worked out and it will be good to get back on the road again.
Jesse
Well we have finished another grueling work week. 12 down and 8 to go…probably. I guess this summer has not fulfilled Corporates expectations and the GM here was directed to cut payroll immediately.
BTW, this campground is owned by Encore and in turn owned by Equity Lifestyles Properties. They laid off one of the guys from maintenance and his wife who worked in the store.
Also gone is one of the front gate supervisors for guests services and his wife and some of house keeping staff. They have cut the hours a bit for the fun and games people but have not let anyone in that department go.
Rumors are running rampant of course, and there is talk of 10 more cuts to be made. What ever happens happens we are not worried. Adjustments in this lifestyle are easily made. We were not considering this place as a career move anyway.
Not much else interesting for this week. The weather continues it’s rainy ways, though now it is only raining every other day. Temps are pleasant rarely getting above the lower 80’s and dropping to the upper 50’s to low 60’s in the evening. Even with the high humidity that’s not too bad.
The theme for last week was western or cowboy week so we got to wear our cowboy hat to work Saturday. I guess Jesse had more hair when he bought the hat a few years ago cause it was a little big. Here are a few pictures from guest services.
On Saturday when Ginger got off at 7 pm, Jesse had already started happy hour without her. We decided to go visit Jim and Joanne and he continued to drink. He was feeling no pain by the time we got home. Ginger was so glad he went right to bed!.
We did not go on any adventures this weekend except for
Walmart on Sunday. That’s always and adventure on a weekend. No exciting culinary experiences either. We did go out Sunday morning to the Lucky Star for breakfast. Just after ordering, another work camping couple, Don and Jane from Georgia came in; we asked them to join us. We had a good meal and nice conversation.
That evening we went to another local place, Bill’s Diner, for dinner. Good down home cooking kind of place.
Today we did lots of chores around the Inn and had guests for dinner Darrell and Judy.
That was our week.
