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Jane, do you ever think that maybe we are just getting plain 'older'...I refuse to say old even though my hair is a mass of white curls. Here's hoping your knee surgeon can help steer you through the ankle problems with a new specialist. You must feel very frustrated. I'm glad that your freezer problem is explained but what a bummer loosing all that food especially when you're not exactly around the corner from a grocery store. Living in the country, living up a mountain is great but there are some drawbacks.

A very odd thing happened today. I had a cancellation for a booking Thurs. to Sunday; a one booking tonight for the B&B, so tomorrow was totally open. After lunch as I was sitting at my computer, a call came in from a woman who lives about 10 miles north of here. She has a travel business from home and had received a wrong-number call from a gentleman who was having trouble connecting with this B&B service (or disservice, as I call it) here in our area. The woman who owns it blanket-advertises but doesn't follow through enough to stop the srew-ups that we other B&B owner/operators come into contact with in people being left high and dry without accommodations. One such incident happened today. When the woman told the caller that she was in the travel business and would see what she could do, resourceful as she is, she called several B&B's who directed her to me as they knew that I had an opening. I've never met her; she didn't know any of us, talked to three B&B owners, had a ball trying to figure this thing out and arranged for the bookings to come in here to me, for which I'm grateful as things are slow this year in our area and all over with tourism. The woman has severe fibromyalgia and cannot drive any longer so does her business out of her home....said it was the most fun she'd had for a long time, making these arrangements...all from a wrong number caller. She'd like to have all three B&B owners up for lunch one day. Fate or whatever, played a hand in my bookings for this week-end. On Monday I have a young woman who practices Chinese medicine on people and animals. She is coming for a horse event not far from here. I sure do have interesting folks in here, albeit, it is slow going. Last year we were all busy here but not so this year.

Sara, your time in NC sounded like fun. Isn't it a beautiful state? One of the prettiest, I think.

Rosey

posted by RoseyP @ 7:10 PM