How do we do it? We hustle our stumps, skip breakfast (and often lunch), start the laundry while we do other things like dishes, cleaning, sleep a little when we can (sometimes 5 hours at a time!). I only have 3 rooms and am not flat out like some here usually - but I have had a run of back-to-back. trips tp the ER with friends who are actually older than me, and the other things I said I would do like Chapel vigil, band ,rehearsal, watering the Community Garden, watering the flower urns in town, city Council meetings. This in the midst of getting guest ready, it was helping to arrange a reschedule of an Independence event - that only required: rescheduling sound system, lighting (for band), about 70 band members, vendors, notifying the Public, cancelling a performance of Twelfth Night on the rescheduled Concert night, AND rescheduling Fireworks. As City Clerk I am part of the team that did that in one day. Another reason I only have 3 rooms - I CAN do it solo (I DO miss my dishwasher, he saved me hours)
It is now 12:20; today I served breakfast, did the checkout stuff, stripped the room, got the sheets & towels in the washer while I watered the Community Garden (2 hours of using 1 gallon jugs and 2 rain barrels), and the sheets are on the clothes line for the 4th day in a row. My hat is off to the rest of you who do this 100 days in a row. I know it is the other stuff that is killing me, but how do you tell a frail woman in her 80s to call the meat wagon to go to ER when she needs someone to hold her hand as much as anything. Going to force myself to say no to any calls from the road for the next 3 days. I am too darn old for this!
Markrose House, this is just to show what we do - I am not the only one who drops everything when there is a need, we all do it, flip rooms, and keep moving. We each do what needs to be done so we can pay for all the wonderful things the Rules & Regs of our cities and States require of us as registered businesses (MUCH higher real estate taxes than as a residence), licensed, inspected, and insured.
However, we all operate how we’re comfortable.
