# [Sample Post] A year at the inn, in numbers
Author: Cristi McGowan
Author URL: https://blog.hothomeswaco.com/author/cristi-mcgowan
Published: 2026-09-21
Category: House
Category URL: https://blog.hothomeswaco.com/category/house
URL: https://blog.hothomeswaco.com/a-year-at-the-inn-in-numbers

![A mountain lodge lit at dusk](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1784871258487-eb403d369191?ixid=M3w3OTAzOTJ8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyfHxtb3VudGFpbiUyMGlubiUyMHdvb2RlbiUyMGNoYWxldCUyMGV4dGVyaW9yfGVufDF8MHx8fDE3ODg2NDY3MjZ8MA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop)

We keep a ledger, and once a year, in the quiet week after the cows have come down, we read it out at the long table. This is the year just gone.

## Guests

- Two thousand nine hundred nights, across eleven rooms, which is about seventy percent of what the inn could hold. We are not trying for more.
- Six thousand breakfasts. Four hundred of them at the window table.
- Eleven countries, which is fewer than before the pandemic and more than last year.

## The house

- Fourteen cords of wood, all of it burned.
- Thirty-one snow days, counting only the ones with snow falling.
- The road closed four times, for a day each, and once for two.
- One television removed, three more to go.

## The kitchen

- Two hundred and eight loaves from the village oven, at breakfast alone.
- Ninety kilos of apricot jam, of which none is left.
- Forty-four Tuesdays.

## Next year

A second window table. A bigger woodshed. The same eleven rooms, the same road, the same cows.


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