The last of Winter?

 6:03 am - Monday - May 18th - LPG&RVR - 34° F, humidity 35%, cloud cover 52%, wind 2 mph out of the north by northwest.....partly cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 64° F.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were riding our bicycles along the Animas River.....

......in Durango, CO....there is a place where one can 'surf ' the river in Downtown Durango.

We didn't go to work until 7:45 am Sunday morning since no one was signed up to play golf until after 9 am.  The temperature at 8 am was around 37° F with a blustery wind which I am sure made it feel a few degrees cooler.  I staged 5 of the Yamaha gassers being pretty sure no more than one, or two of them would see action Sunday.  Then began the task of sorting out all of the golf carts. 

We have a new guy, Steve, who now works opposite me, who started work Thursday, and he did a really great job of clearing the driving range of those 55 gallons of golf balls, and washing the 14 carts left over from Wednesday.  Unfortunately, he didn't know we were going to move 6 of the very old Club Car square front golf carts out of the shed to make room for the 6 new EZ-GO golf carts we acquired in the off season, so all the carts were packed into the shed like sardines.  It took me the better part of an hour to remove the old carts and park them over by the 'Caddy Shack', but finally, around 9 am, order was restored.

That is about the time it began to snow.....

.....that lasted for about 30 minutes, and then the sun came out for a few minutes.  Then it began to snow sideways.....

....for the next 3 hours it went from this to sunny, then back to this over and over again.  I could only spend 10-15 minutes outside at a time before returning to the warm confines of the Clubhouse to get warm again.

The restaurant was busy all morning, and into the late afternoon serving customers.  When you get weather like this at a rural RV park people get a little stir crazy sitting in the RV's, so they take a break and head to the restaurant to order a meal, and kill some time.  I managed to stay somewhat busy all morning, and then gave TLE her lunch break at 12 pm.  I sold one sweat shirt, checked in a couple of people, and took a phone call, but that was the extent of it.  Instead of going right back to work at 1 pm, I headed home to take my own lunch break, returning at 2 pm for the final 3 hours of my shift.

Upon my return I found the only two carts we rented had been returned, so I washed and stowed them, and I was pretty much done with my day.  It was too cold, and damp to mow, or do anything out on the golf course, so I watched some of the final round of The PGA.  It wasn't until around the 13th hole that one player began to separate himself from the pack....Aaron Rai from Britain.  Ultimately he won by 3 strokes finishing at 9 under par, and was the first one to get to 7 under par in four days.

TLE and I were on our way home by 5:05 pm.  It was still very windy, as it had been all day long.  We had all three heaters running for several hours to keep the Newell interior warm, and cozy.  An thus ended the very wintery day of May 17th....will it be the last?

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