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On Monday it was shore lunch inside again and the owner came in to make "proper" soup, meaning that we didn´t know
how to, even though we had made soup lots of times before for the guests who loved it and even asked for the recipe!
But by now, we were used to these types of comments and just shrugged our shoulders and didn´t comment.
On Tuesday the weather was good enough for shore lunch outside so we asked the girls if they wanted to take it out
because Kirsten wanted to watch Germany playing Holland which was being shown on TV at 1-45pm. We thought we were
doing them a favour by giving them a chance to get out in the boat. They said they´d go and then it changed, so that
only Lisa was going, so Helen said she´d go with her. Then it changed again and they were both going. Finally Lisa
came in and said neither of them were going! Helen told her that she had better tell the owners wife herself. The
next thing we knew was that Lisa was storming out of the kitchen and the owners wife came in and said that the girls
had better get on the boat or they´d be getting on the bus home! Then we had to finish off the cabins for the girls
and put in towels that they had forgotten in a few of them before the guests came in asking for towels which would
mean the owners wife would go up the wall at them!
This week we had some very young guests with us, and one of them was a 6 year old boy who caught a fish big enough
to earn himself a master angler T shirt. They only have XL T-shirts, so his went down to his ankles!! On Wednesday
his banana cream pie disappeared off his plate so Helen had to "magic" some back onto it! Kirsten did her own magic
trick the next day and dropped a piece of fried fish into a guests lap!
We had quite a few visits from black bears that week. They were coming to what is called "the pit" which is a large
hole filled with water where we throw out all the liquid waste from the kitchen rather than down the drain and into
the sewage system which the owners themselves have to clean out. It has been such a bad start to the season that the
berries and other goodies the bears love so much, have not yet started to grow. So there's a lot of hungry bears out
there! And they can smell our kitchen! Yummy!! So they will break into the kitchen for food unless we put food out at
the pit for them. It doesn´t stop them from jumping up the kitchen door though. And one even woke us up at 4 o´clock
in the morning when he jumped up Winnie and left greasy paw marks all over him! We knew exactly what it was and both
jumped up, shouted and banged the sides of Winnie to scare it away!
Black bear behind the kitchen.
One day when we were watching England play we suddenly saw two black ears appear to our left just above the window.
Then two black paws appeared on the window sill and finally a black furry head to go with it! This bear was
definitely an England fan and just wanted to know the score!
Mostly, the bears attacked the so-called "bear proof" bin which the bears could open and then they would drag out all
the bin bags and have a whale of a time! We would have to tidy up the next morning! One morning, Helen was following
the trail of rubbish that a bear had left behind, picking up whatever she could on the way. When she turned around to
come back, she noticed a foot print in some bear poo and her heart sank when she realised that she was the only one
who had walked that way!
The squirrels loved the young black bears who came to try and open the bin. They hadn´t worked out how to open it yet
and one of them tried to chew his way into it and left a hole in the top corner. This was the best thing that could
have happened to the squirrels who then had a way of getting into the bin and wreaking havoc on the black bin bags
inside! They are really cute and we loved watching them from the kitchen. They even had boxing matches, one inside
the bin fending off the punches of one that wanted to get into the bin! And they really do punch!
Unfortunately, after a few weeks of having ripped bin bags inside the bin, the owner decided to deal with the problem.
Most of us would have just repaired the bin. No, not this owner. He decided to shoot the squirrels, even though there
are thirty thousand of them! Fortunately, he´s not a very good shot! So we were still entertained by all their antics.
