Daily posts are absent due simply to lack of adventurous or envelope pushing days. Don’t misinterpret this for malaise or boredom. I’m loving my days. Working at the cafe is still a labor of love as opposed to ‘a job’. Hitting the links still happens at least once a week, but it has become more [...]
Work at the cafe this week has been the usual up and down. There will be rushes of customers for an hour or more when I look up and see a dozen or so orders. Just as soon as I get two finished, Robin replaces them with three more. There is no end in sight. [...]
It has been a much different week than I may have surmised at the onset. The rains have given way to blistering humidity and temperatures far above the norm. It’s hotter than Tipper after she heard that Al had fondled a global warming junkie in an elevator. Perhaps the result of the humidity, maybe lingering [...]
My hiatus from posting here is not all my doing. The WiFi at our site has been down for four days. The Verizon wireless stick is to no avail here deep in the woods of Eastern Pennsylvania. It’s amazing to me. Reception was fine in the deserts and mountains of Arizona, the Badlands of the [...]
Sunday morning. It’s busier today than any other day. I thought I was prepared. Enough eggs beaten, pancakes mixed, bacon and potatoes fried all beforehand to prepare for the crowds. And then the onslaught. It didn’t wait for church to be over, it started as soon as the doors opened at 8. I looked up [...]
On Saturday we went back to work. There a great degree of satisfaction I get by trying to make each plate I serve somewhat of a work of art. I amused myself with the little things like folding each omelet exactly the same so their symmetry is apparent on the plate. Ryan surprised us with [...]
We’ve only had a half dozen workamper experiences in the past few years. Most of these have been good, some not so good. But it’s part of my quest to engage in dozens of blue collar jobs in the next few years. However, we have never been treated in such a manner as I’m about [...]
The Gnome Cafe is our center of operation for the next few months. We’re working Thursday through Sunday from 7 am until 2 pm. I work the grill and prepare all the food, while Robin mans the cash register, takes orders, whips up the milkshakes and dishes out the cones and ice cream. For our [...]
I’m not trying to do an advertisement of any sort but the LIW campground has some unique lodgings that I’ve not seen to this degree of variety in one place. For the most part, at least 300 of the 400 sites are cut into the existing flora and native foliage, disturbing only enough to establish [...]
I got hit yesterday. The monster reared its ugly head once again. It happened in the fourth inning. It came with no warning, as it always does, with no rhyme or reason. But the feeling was overwhelming. I walked over the the concession stand that Robin was working and told her. “It’s time for us [...]
