And then there were four.....

 5:45 am - Friday - October 11th - LPG&RVR - 42° F, humidity 57%, wind 3 mph out of the south by southeast.....partially cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 79° F.  On this date in 2021 TLE and I successfully brought our friend's John Deer 830 backhoe back to life after sitting lifeless for 18 months....

....we discovered the trigger wire to the fuel solenoid had shorted out.  Once that was replaced she started right up....it's almost always something simple.

And then there were just four days until we haul anchor.....three work days, then Sunday to finish packing up, and then haul the anchor on Monday.  It was bitter cold as we headed down to the Clubhouse for the first of just 3 work days this week.  The park is not super busy right now, so there were not many people who had reserved tee times for Thursday.  I initially staged 6 golf carts, and we ended up renting 12, or 13.

I had just three things to do Thursday....1) clear the driving range for its weekly mowing, 2) mow, and 3) marshal.  I didn't leave on first first round of the course until after 9 am it was so cold.  You know, that kind of deep, penetrating cold that easily pierces your hoodie sweatshirt, and pants....yes, I wore pants Thursday for the first time in a few weeks.  It was so cold that before I made my first round I stopped off at the Newell to add a vest, and gloves to my wardrobe, and I wore them until lunch time.

I was back from my first round of the course around 10 am, and promptly transferred my old body to the 2 bag Husqvarna to get in an hour of mowing before I needed to close the driving range to clear the balls.  I managed to get the parking lot grass, the small pavilion grass, the large grass area by site #30, and the group fire pit grass mowed before 11 am.

It only took me 45 minutes to clear the balls using a single 'shag bag'....I managed to fill two 5 gallon buckets with range balls.  Once I had them soaking in water to clean them, I headed into the office to give TLE her lunch break.  The rest of the day went by pretty quickly.  I made another marshaling round of the course around 1:15 pm, then returned to my mowing duties.  I mowed the three large grass areas up the hill in the residential area, then all four employee sites before heading back to the Clubhouse to begin washing and stowing golf carts.  By the time I headed home at 3:30 pm all but two golf carts had been washed and stowed....I get those two Friday morning.

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