Seasonal Budgets, Reservations, Year-end Numbers

I spent most of yesterday trying to finalize the seasonal budget as much as we can get it without knowing for sure who is or isn't coming back or when people can start. My supervisor and I looked at it again today and we think it's looking good! (I hope!)

We also started going through the year-end deposit & reconciliation for 2015 and trying to figure out where the mistakes are throughout the year so we can fix them and account for all of our permit sales. It's not too bad, except that some numbers just don't want to match! Then we have to look at the spreadsheet formulas and make sure everything is calculating correctly. That's definitely not my strongest point, but I'm starting to understand it a lot better! The problem is that we only do it once a year, so we have to remember how to do it every year!

We are having a really good winter this year, so maybe we'll have some water in the lake again!

Little Washoe has water all the time because it is spring-fed. The big lake is fed by 11 different creeks, but they all depend on snow melt from the Sierra Nevada. The past three or four years have been really dry, so the lake dried up pretty fast!

 

We had people out on the lakebed flying kites. I think this was taken last spring or summer. A park visitor sent it to us and we loved it.

 

This morning we also had a couple come in to reserve our Equestrian Group Use Area for the Swiss Club. They come twice a year and they are really nice people. They met Jack, the office cat, this morning and loved him. He loves attention from anyone and everyone, so he was very happy with their visit.