Here is the view from our Green Room window. A beautiful day dawned over Chez Sven, with birds chirping delight that the rainy weather is over for now. Unfortunately, the Green Room did not find a taker this weekend, so friends will be coming to stay instead. I posted availability on the Wellfleet Chamber of Commerce blog, but the posting drew scant viewings and no click-throughs. Not a one! What a shame to have an availability blog buried under layers of a Web site, devoted to other matters! If our Green Room is available this weekend, it provides more evidence of the poor economy. I continue having requests for one-night stays, which we refuse to do, except in extraordinary circumstances. Judging from recent postings to the Chamber blog, other exceptional bed & breakfasts in the area also have empty rooms. I was relieved, in fact, to see Fort Hill still has openings for Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day weekend has traditionally been the beginning of summer, with bookings made months in advance. The cottage was booked in January for May 22-24, but the folks had to cancel, due to a shift from full-time to part-time work. Our other two rooms have had no requests. You can bet there will be lots of phone-calls for one-night THAT weekend if the weather remains warm! I do not think people are aware of the work involved in each change-over. If they want to stay in a place that the owners fully clean, and said owners do not hire outside help like at a motel, then two-nights must be the minimum for the time it takes and the wear & tear on linens and the cost of organic food, in our case, to make a stay worthwhile, from a financial point-of-view. Okay, enough rambling for one day. It is outside for me, to mulch the garden, transplant, seed, etc. but first, a closer look at our cute batalinii apricot jewel tulips, before the application of mulch ...
