1/8/2017: We Are Innkeepers

I'm taking this conversation off of FaceBook and bringing it to my blog, too much to talk about on Facebook.  :)

As a quick recap, Carla and I moved to Glen, New Hampshire on December 19th, 2016, to take over as the resident innkeepers of the Bernerhof Inn Bed and Breakfast.  The previous innkeeper, Steve Lambert, stayed on until 8:00PM on New Year's Eve to train us.  At about 8PM on NYE, he left to spend the rest of the evening with his family and Carla and I were left with the keys to the place.  To say the least, it's been a crazy week!

We came out of the gate running, with a full house to entertain until midnight on NYE and to feed breakfast on January 1st.  Before getting here we thought we would need help with breakfast when we had a full house, but we don't have any trouble handling 24 guests on our own.  It can get a little hectic at about 9:30 or 9:45, when all the guests decide they need to squeeze breakfast in at the same time (we stop serving at 10:00), but in general, cooking and serving breakfast for 24 people is pretty fun.  The worst part of breakfast is that when we have a full house, it's about a 4 - 5 hour operation, between prep, 2 hours of actually serving breakfast, and an hour or so for clean up.  It's about 11:00 in the morning before we can begin our other tasks for the day.

Since Steve left, we've worked every waking hour of the day.  This is not something we can keep up indefinitely, but for now it seems necessary so we can get caught up on some of the grossly needed chores, like cleaning and organizing the kitchen.

I don't have much time to chat now, but I wanted to get this started.  I'll try to post consistently so that the blog captures thoughts and emotions as we are experiencing them.

Our overall impression, at the end of week 1, is that we are glad we are here.  There have been bumps already, but that is to be expected.  Carla and I make one hell of a team!!