First great news is that the cold I got blind sided with is gone in just 4 days.

Next good news is, we did a spur of the moment thing on Friday and drove to Maine for a night away (at a B&B of course!), with a dinner and massage package..... then on Saturday drove to be with old friends of ours to witness their daughter's marriage (more about that will be on our family blog page - in our blog roll it's ellen and philip)..... then we drove back last night.

I seem to just about sit down to start typing and all kinds of things start to happen...... phones ring, people stop by, guests check in, or return from being out and want to chat... just constant. The Lord has blessed this transition from 2007 to 2008 in a way that boggles my mind. I have been trying to get after crunching all the numbers to close out the year, but won't begin to touch it till tomorrow. It seems we have been non-stop with virtually every room filled for two weeks. I crashed at 8:00 last night and slept for 10 hours. This morning our last guests checked out.

We were born into a world at war! Although we can look around in our real world and read about wars in various parts of the world, read of violence, suicide bombers, assassinations, or whatever.....rarely do we understand why. If only we could just all get along! There is only one way we can all get along..... and it starts with our need to understand we all live in the Matrix.

Back in 2004, we were up 20% and I was hard pressed to think we could keep growing like that, since we only have 5 rooms to sell, just so many weekends and so many holidays in a year and those special times like foliage when you can sell every room, every nite and get almost any price you want to ask...... anyway.....we decided to raise our rates in 2005 knowing it would affect the number of nites we booked, but felt that would be offset by the rate increases.