When Friday is really Friday......

 7:46 am - Sunday - August 6th - LPG&RVR - 55° F, humidity 66%, wind 1 mph out of the west by northwest......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 83° F.  On this date in  2015 I had the best Huevos Rancheros ever at Bert's Café in South Lake Tahoe....↴

Still the best ever!

I had good intentions to write about Friday yesterday afternoon, but I forgot, and then remembered around 9 pm last night, but then it was too late, so here I am still owing you two posts.

I write a lot about the different guys who do the major mowing on our golf course, but have never posted videos of them doing their jobs, so here goes.  First up is a video taken from the 15th hole of DeWayne mowing the rough on the 17th fairway with the big Jacobsen......

.....and here is Mike mowing the 18th fairway.....

....and finally, George mowing the 9th green with the John Deere.....

.....the rough, and fairways get mowed twice per week, and the greens 3 times per week.  These guys are the backbone of the golf course, and keep the course looking its best 7 days a week.  We get compliments all the time from golfers visiting from Reno, Susanville, and Redding on how good our course is compared to courses they play in their local areas.

Friday was much busier than the rest of the week, and we sent out 20 carts in all during my 8 hour shift.  After staging the first 16 carts, and making my initial round of the course I retrieved the small Husqvarna and began mowing the two long strips of grass along the cart path leading to tees 1 and 10, then around the putting green.  After that I made another round of the course to be sure play was moving along, and found no issues, so I returned to the Clubhouse, retrieved the big Husqvarna 3 bag riding lawnmower, and mowed the the last 3 employee sites....you'll recall I mowed our grass on Thursday.

Before giving TLE her lunch break I made another round of the course checking on play and found everyone spread out nicely, with no bottlenecks.  I got back to the Clubhouse around 12:30 pm to give TLE her lunch break, then after lunch I washed, and put away around 15 golf carts before heading for home at 2:30 pm, and the beginning of our 4 day 'weekend'.  For the first time in a while this Friday was actually our 'Friday'.

The storm moving in....

The weather forecast predicted rain sometime Friday afternoon, but it didn't arrive until around 7:30 pm.  The, sometimes, hard rain was accompanied by lightning and thunder.....a lot of lightning and thunder for about an hour.....was then followed by winds gusting into the 30's for about an hour as the storm left LPG&RVR.  The wind left our 'lido' and 'lower' decks in disarray, but no serious damage was incurred.