Last but by no means least our final staff member profile is of Lily Anderson. Lily worked with us last summer. If you remember, Lily is from China and has a cabin on Clearwater Lake. She has been the US now for 18 months and I could tell as soon as I got back this summer that her English had really improved over the winter months. Lily worked for Bearskin Lodge during our off season and has now officially wintered over two times. She also got her driver’s license over the winter and has taken several longer solo trips to see friends. Sometimes I see her zipping down Clearwater Road in her little car. She took to driving with great determination no problems. We did hear that her husband John did need to pull her out of a ditch during the winter on Clearwater Road, but frankly who hasn't that happened to at least once up here? If I can count right, I have experienced 3 headers into snow banks on Clearwater Road.
Lily is our chief breakfast cook. This summer she is cooking, housekeeping, baking, gardening and front desk and whatever else comes up. We think we are going to teach her how to stain decks in the next week also but we shall see how that works out. She is game for anything new but sometimes looks at us like we are a bit crazy.
Kwas and Jim configured a small hatchet for Lily as they think everyone in the northwoods should have their own hatchet handy. That hatchet now resides on the kitchen window sill as Lily is not quite sure what she should do with this tool. Even though she stands 5 ft and 80 lbs., I think she is fully capable of bringing the boys in line with her mini-hatchet should the need arise when she is trying to get breakfast on the table.
Every morning once breakfast is done, Lily makes a special breakfast for Queenie. Queenie gets several cooked carrots nicely chopped, an egg white and ½ a sausage. Needless to say Queenie longingly looks for Lily first every morning. If Lily is not here, Queenie gets a bit aggravated trying to figure out who will give her this nice meal. The rest of us fill her bowl with dog food and have to deal with the grumbling and barking from her expressing her disgust of dry dog food. How could we be so rude to just give her dog food!
We had a lot of fun introducing Lily to the concept of a garage sale during the Trash and Treasures day on the Gunflint. But once she caught on she loved it. She manned the porch sale and bargained with everyone buying something. She carried that cash box under her arm and made sure everyone walked away with something. How could any resist this pint size sales rep? She now wants to have a garage sale every week.
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