After pondering a bit on what guidelines to include in the list – ultimately – it seems to go along with staying in a yurt or borrowing an RV. Bring what you will need for food, entertainment, and a list of things that you and your family would like to do during your stay. Like staying with people camping, usually the food is blended in pot luck style. We enjoy that too. Communication with food and groceries will produce the best meals for your stay. I LOVE to cook, I do not love to waitress or wash dishes.
Unless communicated otherwise – here our our preferences for House Guest Rules
- Please bring all of your own food. You may use our kitchen. Please clean it up right a way. Assume that the Wright Family will not be going out to dinner – but feel free to do so with your family.
- Please bring your sleeping bag.
- Please plan on bringing dirty/wet clothes home with you.
- We ask that you set up an arrival and departure time. Let us know when plans change as soon as possible so we may adjust our plans as well. There may be a family on a waiting list for a weekend.
- Please understand that we want you to have fun but know that this is our home while you are vacationing. If you dirty it – clean it. Simple yes! Followed by our house guests – not so much. If you would like maid service – please consider the Lincoln City Inn. Please clean up after yourself and your children. Use the dishwasher. Hang your towels on the racks to dry. Bring soiled bedding to the washing machine in the garage. Follow wandering children with food to make sure it gets cleaned up, better yet, contain them to the dining room. Please help your children put away games, videos, electronics, life jackets and nerf supplies.
- Children must wear a life jacket and be supervised by their parent while on the dock or near the lake.
- Keep all drinks and food contained to the dining room area. I do not mind coffee or your personal drink in the living room, but my dog may swipe it with her tail, and you get to clean it up. 🙂 No food or drinks downstairs.
- Our bathrooms are TINY. One shower stall, and one claw foot tub. One bathroom upstairs, one downstairs. We shower at crazy times in the day, feel free to use your own shower schedule. I live in a house with 3 boys. I have no claim on owning the world’s cleanest bathrooms.
- Remember items from home that will make your child feel at ease here. We are a lego and board game loving family. We like art and reading. We do not have a lot of toys as the boys are older now. Feel free to bring a favorite game system, as we do not have one – there is a TV downstairs. Although they have freedom downstairs, we are strict about indoor voices.
- We have WI-FI in the house. Feel free to bring a laptop. I do not find it rude to check emails and such several times a day. Cell Phone calls and such are also not a bother to me, however, please go to your room or outside if it is a long private call.
- I have two rooms that have full size beds, and your own personal space with a door. There is a futon in the dining room, where the coffee is, so the lights turn on between 6 and 7. We have 3 bunk beds downstairs, so there are 4 extra twin beds. It will be your choice upon arrival to choose where you would like to sleep.
Our Daily Routine:
(does not need to go this way during your visit, but this is our normal)
5-7 am Quiet Time
7-10 am Breakfast, reading, chores
10-12 Outings or School
12-1 Lunch, 2-3 Lunch for Darren
1-5 Outings
5 – Dinner
After Dinner, House Cleanup, Dinner Cleanup, Board Games
9 pm – Settle Down Time. DVD, TV, Books
10 pm Lights Out.
From 2-4 is usually my recharge time. I like to take 30 minute power naps.
Our routine changes with Darren’s work schedule which is 6am – 4pm or 10:30 – 9:00 pm.
Our goal is communication – and the ability for you to stop in with little notice if need be. My personal goal is to not be a martyr around my guests , me feeling like a maid, cook, housekeeper, waitress, tour guide and entertainer. Please respect our time and servant heart spirit, while enjoying your stay.
+Angie Wright
Pebblekeeper 
Is it snarky of me to notice that 99% of your "rules" are simple good manners and common sense????? But, given that you are now an official "destination". Great idea. Although I would have added a tip jar on the counter. But that\’s just me.