My Life as a Maine Innkeeper: The Trials of Renovation

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Trials of Renovation

At first I didn't understand why my masters where so frustrated by the kitchen renovation but then the floor went in and now I get it. It is taking much longer than the contracters said and that makes my life a bit uncomfortable. The kitchen and the back stairs are my domain but not for the past week. I have either had to be outside (thank goodness the weather is good) or go with Amy to run errands, go to her part-time job (luckily they like dogs there) - it will be nice to be able to lay of the finished floor and to have all the stuff back where it belongs. They say they will finish today - I am hopeful and will post pictures if this really happens!

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Our Journey to Bath

Before Amy and Mark ever even thought about making me a part of their family, they were thinking about being innkeepers. About a year and a half after they adopted me, they left me in Erie, PA and took a trip to explore possible towns in New England to open their new business. While I patiently waited at home with a dog sitter, they journeyed to Bath ME, their first stop on the trip. It was December of 2004 so it was cold and raining in Maine but they fell in love with the town and the people they met. Driving to the next town in New Hampshire in a snow storm, they knew in their hearts that Bath was going to be our new home. They went ahead and looked at the other places as planned, but Bath was it. In February of 2005, they left me once again to look at a house on the market in Bath. It had been a B&B but had gone to a private home for the past couple years. Well, lucky us, they loved the house and put in a bid. It was so exciting when the realtor called us in Erie to say the Benjamin F. Packard House was ours! Things started moving quickly then. Packing up the house in Erie, making long distance arrangements for licenses, sprinkler systems and all the things that go with opening a new business. On May 14th, they packed the car and this time took me along too. We closed on the house on May 16th and in six hectic weeks, opened the new Benjamin F. Packard House B&B! My life as a bed and breakfast dog had begun.