Charley's Place

Dawn Over Black Lake Artists' Retreat   The concept of converting my empty attached apartment to a vacation rental seemed like a good idea at the time. But in retrospect being locked down during a pandemic narrows ones vision. I had never stayed at a VRBO. My closest experience was eight days in a house boat on Lake Powell as I have stated in a previous blog. Stocking up for a week with my sister on conveyance which had no frills (we did the cheap boat) is hardly the same as readying a two bedroom/sleeps five apartment for a month reservation. Thankfully my first guest was for just three nights and my next booking is for four nights. But in the future there is a 28 day stay and a 30 day stay. Hopefully I will have the kinks out by then and at the least an ample supply of toilet paper and paper towels. I thought I was done with the endless list of amenities but I see I am going to need some chests of drawers for the longer reservations. Luckily a friend sold her house and it offerin...

Dining Table and into the Living Area   The remodel and re-decorate was the easy part. Amenities has been a never ending process. Even before the painting and decorating I had the kitchen stocked with the utility items or so I thought. But there always seems to be something else and some things I do not even have in my kitchen. Latest adds were a kitchen clock, a coffee grinder, a blender, a potato peeler, and a pizza cutter. Okay, my kitchen as the coffee grinder, actually two because one is for grinding herbs. I hate potato peelers. And because of eight days on a house boat on Lake Powell I had already bought the upscale set of very sharp knives. In fact the eight days on that house boat was the basis for my first list of amenities for the kitchen. House boats do not have the capacity for a lot of electric gadgets. It is camping on something which floats. They do not have microwaves, slow cookers, coffee machines, and coffee bean grinders. That eight days supplied me with a list ...