The very good thing about being on a historic bus tour route is that it forces one to clean house. During the two bus tour seasons — April/May and September/October, there is always this giant flurry of activity to get the place presentable.

Alas, the down side is that these cleaning blitzes create a hidden backlog of mess rather in the nature of “Fibber McGee’s Closet” (for those fans of vintage radio). All the filing I was in the midst of re-organizing gets scooped up on tour day and chucked into boxes which get hidden somewhere off the tour route and thereby compounding the problem.

As a result, I generally only know the status of utility bills when the utility in question gets threatened with disconnection. Not good. The one downside of this place is that the rooms beg to be in period style and there’s not enough “backstage” area to organize things in. I need an office!