Ho Hum Meeting

Of course, the biggest news from yesterday was the sales meeting with the gurus from the Region. It's amazing how much preparation went into this meeting as far as getting the Community to look its best. We even painted walls in the foyer area and made sure all furniture was neat and in the proper location.

The meeting started a bit late - around 10 AM - and Josie and Terri didn't have to attend - they were the guard for the office to answer the phones and to handle resident issues. The rest of us - the new managers, Charlie, our 2 sales ladies and myself were in the meeting that went up to 12:15. It was a lot less stressful than I anticipated and we got through all of the discussions regarding our key sales situations without a blip. Our Regional Director complimented us for the tremendous improvement in our Community - both from a visual standpoint and an operations standpoint. I even had a compliment from the RD on how I presented my key sales situations. As the RD was leaving in the afternoon, Terri gave a compliment about Josie to him and he reiterated his statement that he had plans for us. We don't know what or when he has a change in mind, but we feel relieved that it isn't the other way around where he would be threatening us. The relief came for us at around 4 PM when we got off work (our usual, scheduled quitting time would have been 3 PM yesterday) so we felt fortunate to get it all done and out of there at a decent hour.

We took a short trip to our 5th wheel to try to find the information we have on Creede, CO., where we are still scheduled to work at the beautiful campground there this summer. We have been holding off cancelling that opportunity to the last minute as we wanted to be certain that this would work out for us here. We are just about at the crossroads for that decision and we want to make sure that we want to cancel that job. We may be sorry but, right now, we plan to stay the course here for some time longer and will probably end the Colorado opportunity soon.

Our start time for today is 11 AM and we will be on duty and/or on call from then until 7 AM on Sunday. There are some fun things planned during that time including the 100th birthday party for our resident, Ann Stauffer, tomorrow, and a nice St Patrick's Day dinner scheduled for Saturday. Hopefully, we can get some nice pictures of those events...