MISQUAH — Loon Ridge filled to sixty-one guests over the Labor Day weekend, which Renée Fontaine calls the last real money of the year, and was down to twenty-two by Monday evening. Nine of the twenty-two cabins are closed and winterized. The rest come out of service in stages.

The docks come out the second week of October and the resort closes the third, which leaves five weeks of what Fontaine describes, without any of the wistfulness a person might expect, as her favorite part of the year.

“September guests are couples and fishermen and they do not need anything,” she said. “They check in, they say hello, they are gone at five in the morning and back at ten with fish. In July somebody wants to know why the wifi does not reach the swimming raft. There is no wifi at the raft. There is a raft.”

Staffing has gone from nine to three. The two college students left the Friday before Labor Day; the four high-school employees started school Wednesday and now work Saturdays only. Fontaine is doing the cleaning herself Monday through Thursday, which she says she does every September and which she says she does not mind, and which she said while carrying a vacuum.

Rebookings for next August stand at nineteen households, up from eleven a week ago. She expects thirty by Christmas. She has never advertised.

She has also asked the district when the calendar meeting is in the spring, and intends to be at it, and expects to lose again. “They have a June problem and I have an August problem,” she said. “I am going to keep saying my half of it.”