Staying busy....

 8:01 am - Wednesday - September 2nd - LPG&RVR - 53° F, humidity 45%, cloud cover 90%, wind 15 mph out of the southwest.....heavy cloud cover today with rain on the way for Thursday, and a forecast high today of 63° F.  On this date in 2015  TLE and I were at Cape Blanco, OR (just north of Port Orford).....

....beginning our second Fall season as lighthouse docents.  Our favorite volunteer job ever.  How has it been 11 years since then?

To begin our fourth work day in this current 8 day cycle I staged 4 Club Car gassers of the 'round nose' variety.  These carts are some of our oldest, but not as old as the 'square nosed' carts, which is what the Club Car Villager #20 is that we drive.  They have been running well, but have not been run in over 3 weeks, so since Tuesday promised to be an unbusy day I staged them, and that is exactly how many carts we rented.

After all the manual watering I did Monday it was time to roll up all those hoses so I could mow them later in the morning.  The hoses down at the 'Night Office' are quite long in order to reach the furthest areas from the two hose bibs.  The two longest are over 150' long....each, and it takes a while to coil them.  

Next I began hauling gravel, three 5 gallon buckets at a time, up to the Clubhouse to fill in some low spots where water tends to pool during rain storms, and since we have what appears to be an all day rain storm coming Thursday, I will be able to see how effective the work I have done will be. In all I think I hauled 10 buckets of gravel before spreading out the piles.  Five gallons of gravel does not go very far, so I've been working on this project a little bit at a time for a number of weeks whenever I've had extra time, and I had a lot of extra time on Tuesday.

Around 10 am I headed back out to the driving range to clear the forest on each side of the range of golf balls.  I didn't have time Monday to do that, but I also knew there would not be many out there, and there weren't.  In all I filled one shag bag full of balls....probably about 1/3 of a 5 gallon bucket.  By the time I gathered them, and washed them it was 11 am, and time to mow the parking lot grass and 'Night Office' grass.  There is probably over 2 acres combined of grass to mow, but it only takes me about 40 minutes.  By the time I returned the 2 bag Husqvarna to the 'Caddy Shack' it was 11:40 am, so I had enough time to clear the grass clippings off the Husqvarna, and refuel it before TLE's lunch break.

The temp never got much over 70° F Tuesday, and that combined with a pretty stiff breeze most of the afternoon made me rethink taking off my hooded sweatshirt late morning as it was pretty chilly.  By 3:15 pm all four Club Cars had returned with no issues, and within 15 minutes I was driving home to begin another four day weekend.

The park will be filling, beginning Thursday, for the Labor Day Weekend, and with containment of almost all the fires to the south of us we should should begin to see an increase in business for our last month.   US-395 between Likely and Reno has been closed due to fires 5, or 6 times in the past few weeks creating a lot of uncertainty.  The detours around the closures add 2-3 hours of travel time to LPG&RVR from the south, from which a goodly portion of our business is derived.

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Reverting to form....

 5:55 am - Tuesday - September 1st - LPG&RVR - 54° F, humidity 27%, cloud cover 26%, wind 17 mph out of the south....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 74° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were in Spokane, WA.....

.....having dinner on the deck at my sister's home....like TLE, my sister is a wonderful preparer of wonderful food.  It seems almost déclassé or jejune to call either of them a 'cook'.

After a rather nice weekend of cart rentals we slid back to our old ways (reverted to form) Monday renting only 5 golf carts.  I had 7 left over from Sunday to wash/stow when we arrived at the Clubhouse at 7:30 am.  After staging two carts (we only had one person signed up for a tee time at 8:10 am) and washing/stowing the 7 carts I set out a sprinkler between the putting green and Clubhouse deck, then a couple more at the parking lot grass, and all four sprinklers we use down at the 'Night Office.  I then spent a couple of hours moving said sprinklers from dry spot to dry spot.  Thankfully, we do not have a lot of dry spots right now as both Steve and I have been very diligent in doing the manual watering the past month.  

Now that the daily  temps have declined into the 80's the grass is staying greener with less watering.  In fact the temps this coming week are dropping first into the 70's (today), then into the 60's tomorrow (Wednesday), and into the 50's on Thursday when it is supposed to rain.  The temps will stay in the 70's until after the 10th when they creep back into the low 80's for a few days.

Around 10 am I used the 2 bag Husqvarna riding lawnmower to mow the employee sites, then spent the rest of the morning clearing the driving range of range balls so it could be mowed in the afternoon.  I managed to harvest two 5 gallon buckets of balls this time, a sure sigh of increased activity this past weekend.  Coming up we have the final summer long weekend called Labor Day, and before we know it we will be working the final 4 days of the 2026 season here at Likely Place Golf & RV Resort.

By 3:30 pm only 2 of the five rented golf carts had returned (more late afternoon golfers).  By 3:40 pm I had taken a shower, and was in my recliner taking a nap before returning just before 5 pm to the Clubhouse to ferry TLE home to close out the 3rd day of our four day work week.

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