SPRING has sprung

"Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, where last year's careless driver is!" - BurmaShave

Slower times allowed you to read the BurmaShave signs posted along the hiways and byways of America.  Now we have instead AMBER ALERTS.  I am sure we had children abducted back then, we just didn't have a national data base - wasn't even a word for data base!  People also took summer vacations of two weeks to a month to recharge their batteries, their bodies, and their souls.  Fast forward to the present and many a family gets a few long weekends, if that, each year!!  

One of our resort guests was chatting with me about how she wanted to have a bed and breakfast UNTIL she talked to an owner who was lamenting the fact that it was a 24/7 business...the phone was always ringing with reservations, in the middle of a movie, or a quiet conversation with your family!!  I told her that in the 51 years of marriage we had never had anything BUT a 24/7 career!  Computers that need fixing do not care if you have something else to do.  I remember the baptism of our first son - his dad kept his hand on his beeper (vibrate was a few years away!!) since he was on call that morning!  A family doesn't have sickness on your schedule as a mom, and that includes the INN years when an employee getting sick meant an extra shift for "mom"  - the boss!  Then there is being a pastor, also a 24/7 schedule (supposedly with FOUR WEEKS vacation! (:-D)  So it is just the way life has been for US, thank GOD it is not that way for everyone or we would have NO BUSINESS at The Rivers Resort in beautiful downtown Strawberry, population 164 and holding!

The flowering plum is blooming and with the 75 degree weather this weekend, those buds should ALL be open by Monday!!  That means just one more Spring snow storm - TRADITION, TRADITION!!  I put all of the snow shovels away yesterday, just to make sure we will have that one more storm!!  After all, the FISHERMEN are coming NEXT weekend - that would seem like a good time for a snow storm, and it wouldn't be the first time!

Call soon for your summer reservation; the spaces are getting fewer and ESPECIALLY for the large cabins. We do have one week in Cabin #5 - the first week of July!