7:49 am - Saturday - August 1st - LPG&RVR - 67° F, humidity 18%, cloud cover 29%, wind 14 mph out of the northwest.....partly cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 96° F. On this date in 2018 TLE and I were in Bar Harbor, ME.....
....taking in a movie at Reel Pizza Cinerama....we got the real big bag of popcorn. Looks like a shopping bag, no? We didn't get pizza, but that is the whole point of this place....order a pizza, and watch a movie....great concept.
At last, the final day of our four day work week arrived. Every four day shift seems to go fast, and then we must shift gears, and try and slow down the four day weekend. I knew when I egressed from the Newell Friday morning that it was going to be hot. There was no coolness in the air, just an uncomfortable warmth portending much suffering later in the morning, and into the afternoon for those of us who work outdoors. About once a month real Friday coincides with our four day work week metaphorical 'Friday', which isn't really a Friday much of the time, but feels like a Friday. Friday was one of those double Friday's which happens once a month. I hope I'm not being too obscure....lol.
We actually rented 9 golf carts Friday....the most in one day all 'week'. I didn't need to stage any carts as I had left the older, square nosed Club Cars staged overnight. I had one cart to wash, and dispensed with that pretty quickly. Now, what to do? Well, since Claude went to visit his mother (106 years of age) in Oregon I made a round of the course in his stead to be sure all was well, and then later in the morning to rake three of the four sand traps. I usually use the phrase 'sand' trap metaphorically, but one of the four now (the fourth hole) actually has sand in it. Claude reshaped the sand trap, cleaned out all the small rocks, and all the weeds, and Jose put a bucket (loader bucket) of white sand into it to turn it into a real sand trap....lol! It is really confusing our golfers.
For the third day in succession I watered the dry spots in the 'Night Office' grass, and the parking lot grass. They are now all green for the first time a long time. I also watered the grass between the Clubhouse deck and the putting green, so it is all green, too. Additionally, I mowed the employee lawns, which Claude so kindly trimmed before leaving for Oregon. There was the usual 90 minute lunch break for TLE, then the final two excrutiatingly hot hours left before my four day weekend began, and at last it was time to head for the cool confines of our 1982 Newell where I took a long cool shower, then a long nap before heading back to the Clubhouse to assist TLE in beginning her four day weekend.
There are 12 days remaining until temps dip back into the 80's, and we only work 4 of those days....YAY! Typically, after the middle of August it begins to cool off here in Modoc Country, and by early September we're usually back into the 70's. We'll see if that past trend continues this year; I sure hope so!
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