As promised, here are the pictures of the extra bathrooms, the hall linen closet and the utility room cabinet renovations. We picked a dolphin gray color for these as we wanted to discourage fingerprints on the cabinets. I think the color is a little darker than we had bargained for, but they look really sharp. I need to change out the brass faucets and shower fixtures and add pulls for the cabinets and drawers. All in due time. As I mentioned last week, Darla and I are thrilled with the new look and the total cost of less than $6,000 saved us a small fortune over buying new cabinets which was in the $20,000 range.
You can also see pictures of Pete and Vicky and Darla and I at the River Cat's Business Mixer on Thursday night. It was 106 degrees and there were one or two finance types in suits and ties. The rest of us were in shorts and baseball attire as the weather was just TOO HOT. It was the annual Tacos and Tequila mixer and they had a tequila company there pouring shots of silver and gold tequilas as well as reposado. They poured the tequila in a shot glass and had us taste the tequila and then take a sip of maple syrup and then taste the tequila again. It was all smooth and good and the margaritas they were pouring were great. Darla was my designated driver. The tacos were equally as good and provided by Young's Market Company. They had steak, chicken and carnitas and it was all delicious. We had a great time together and took a picture at the end of the night by a signed Willie Mays jersey.
I also have a picture of Sam from her Texas trip and had to laugh when I saw her wearing a California T shirt. She may be from Vegas, but she is a California girl.
I noticed last week that the majority of my pictures didn't have David and Daniel in them and that is because they were only there on the weekend. I went through and found a few more to add this week. It was a great vacation and we will do it again next year, complete with Miss Samantha coming to spend ten days with us and go to church camp again. I have a picture of the art project that Sam gave us as well as a picture of the subject (Baby). She seemed to really enjoy her week at camp. Next year she will be at our church and Darla may even volunteer for the week and be there with Sam.
The only headache we had other than the jet ski and trailer was that the resort charged us $125 for the cabin being "excessively dirty". The old owners used to leave us with a laundry list of things to do when we left, including clean the floors, vacuuming, clean all bathrooms, empty trashes, hose off the wooden deck and clean the kitchen thoroughly. The new owners removed the washer and dryer and all cleaning products and told us to just enjoy our vacation. They withheld half of our $250 deposit as it took them "3 1/2 hours to clean the cabin". They didn't even itemize what they had used the deposit money for. Now they didn't charge us for a slip at the dock or for extra vehicles or people, so it all works out, but Darla and I were shocked. I called up to find out what we were being charged for and the gal said it took them 3 1/2 hours to clean the cabin and "something" was left broken in the master bathroom. I asked her what and she said they had no record of that. I was pretty pissed as they were so cavalier when I asked them while we were there what we needed to do before we moved out. There response was, "it's your vacation, just relax and enjoy yourself". Now we had 9 people in a 2 bedroom cabin, so getting it dirty was inevitable with red dirt shores and a rustic landscape. Darla seems to think it's fine, but I was mostly upset that they just returned half of our deposit with no explanation. I wouldn't do that to my tenants after 22 years in my rental. Just keep half of their deposit and chalk it up to I had to clean the house. Whatever. Kind of a bummer way to end the vacation.
I have Michael coming in this week. He is the Corporate VP who is working with my younger producers. He and I had talked about his coming maybe in August and when I sent him a note on Friday to see if he had firmed up his plans he told me he had already booked his flights for this coming week. This is the second time that he has done this and it irritates me. He'll want to go out on calls with the underwriters and it takes tome to set these up. We will take an agent golfing on Friday, but I have conflicts both Tuesday night (my golf board meeting)and Thursday (I'm subbing in the golf league for Ron Floyd's partner). I will have a talk with him about communicating better and especially communicating by e-mail. His recollection of phone conversations and mine differ greatly. I'm 60 and he is 72, so I win that one.
I have played one game of golf since surgery and that was the round at Granite Bay Country Club. I shot a 93 and made it all the way through the round with no pain. My physical therapist had suggested that I only play 9 holes and I told her I'd see how I felt after 9. I think that I was religious about my physical therapy working out twice a day and it really helped the shoulder heal and strengthen. I'm not 100%, but I'm probably 95%. It was 108 degrees the day we played, so staying loose wasn't an issue. I hit some good shots and some woeful shots. This week will be a test for me as I play 9 holes Thursday night, 18 on Friday and 18 in my first tournament back on Saturday at Morgan Creek. I will have Michael play at Morgan as well on Friday to get me ready for the tournament.
By the way, I have been released from physical therapy and I'm on my own to continue rehabbing my shoulder. I was judged at about 90% when I was released.
Work continues going at a rocket's pace. We struggled in May, but came back nicely in June and were up about 5% from 2016. It doesn't sound like much. but I have one of my main producers out on maternity leave and her numbers are down. Matt had left the company he joined after working for me and is opening a new branch for one of our main national competitors and they were out hitting Wendy's agents hard on her maternity leave. I called each of her agents and talked about Matt being with his third company in two years. Loyalty was the theme and it was pretty well received. I think.
Well that is it for this week. I will be back at the keyboard next Sunday with tales of my golfing exploits. We will have company Sunday afternoon as Charlie and Frieda are coming over for a barbecue and Charlie and I will change out the pool lights for new fixtures/ Both lights have a broken seal and no longer work. The fixture is half full of water. Until, then, be well and Ciao.
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