7:53 am - Monday - June 30th - 73° F, humidity 20%, wind 1 mph out of the north......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 96° F....the hottest day this year so far in Likely, CA. On this date in 2015 TLE and I were at Tahoe Valley Campground having cocktails with our co-workers.....a wonderful group of people.....
Left to right: Moi, TLE, Marilyn, Harry, Merlin, Mel, John and Deb
.....who had been coming to TVC for years to spend the summer, and work at the campground.I've been blogging daily since October of 2012, when we began working at Amazon in Campbellsville, KY. Some call what I do 'journaling', but I have always associated journaling with hand writing your daily thoughts in some sort of journal book. I guess the tech term 'blogging' has replaced 'journaling' in today's lexicon. In reality both are the same, but now one uses a computer, laptop, or phone instead of a pen to publish their story, or thoughts as the case may be. Blogging has been a daily habit for me going on 12 years now, and I think I've only failed to post a missive on very rare occasions. As of today the 'statistics' show I've posted 4,926 times, excluding today's post. TLE reads my blog to get my perspective on each day. As you know, I don't post often about what TLE did on any given day, but pretty much only about what I did, or experienced. Everyone has their own story to tell, and this blog is my attempt to tell my story as seen through my eyes, heard through my ears, and based on my personal experiences. There have been times when I've thought about closing down 'Whatsnewell', and there may come a time when that happens, but I cannot imagine when that would be, or for what reason. You've been with me through so much in the last dozen years.....a double hernia operation, a stroke, a heart attack, the excision of a cyst from my right cheek, almost cutting off the end of my left middle finger on a bike ride, and several cancerous excisions. If it has happened to me you know about it shortly thereafter. Some think I am too transparent, but I don't see it that way. With me its 'what you see is what you get', and I'll let it go at that with just one more comment.....thank you for reading my daily ramblings so faithfully....I am truly humbled, and grateful that anyone other than my family reads my blog....lol!
Even thought we only worked 2 days in this current work cycle, it felt like 4. TLE and I are still in recovery mode from our trip to Deer Lodge last week, and were so looking forward to being able to sleep in Monday morning, but I get ahead of myself.
Sunday began slowly, but by the end of the day we had rented 23 carts. As you know, Sundays are big departure days in campgrounds such as ours, so things are usually a little more laid back on the golf course, but we had a lot of people coming to play golf from offsite, so it felt just as busy as Saturday. After staging enough carts to keep TLE happy for a while I headed down to the 'Night Office' to trim around the trees, and the office prior to mowing. While I was at it I also trimmed around the two back in sites (#19 and 20), which I had mowed on Saturday. I usually try to trim first as it makes the mowing easier, however, I mowed them as an afterthought on my way back to the Clubhouse Saturday. Next up I retrieved the 2 bag Husqvarna and began mowing the grass at the 'Night Office', which took me the better part of 45 minutes. From there I headed up the hill to the three residential grass areas to give them a a quick mow before giving TLE her lunch break.
The high temp Sunday was close to 95° F, and it felt every bit of that. With very little wind for most of the day it felt even warmer than it was. I've pretty much acclimated to high 80's, but when you get into the mid 90's it takes a little longer, and I am not there yet. I was in the sun mowing and trimming for quite a while in the morning so I was inclined to spent more time in the shade after lunch. A lot of our cart rentals went out from noon on, and as a result I had only washed and stowed 11,or 12 carts when 3:30 pm rolled around, so there will be more than 10 carts for Dave to deal with first thing Monday morning. Typically when temps get into the 90's people go out early and finish early, so I'm able to get all the carts put away so Dave starts his four day work week with a clean slate, but that was beyond my control Sunday.
I don't take a traditional lunch break, but TLE does, so when she goes home for lunch on 90+ days she turns on the front A/C so that when I go home at 3:30 pm it is already cool inside the Newell, for which I am very grateful. She called me around 5:20 pm to advise she was ready for pickup, and by 5:30 pm we had begun our four day weekend. We slept in until 7:45 am this (Monday) morning, and it is now almost 9 am as I finish with my 4, 927th blog post. This month has been one for the record books for my blog....we have had almost 90,000 views this month....almost triple the norm....again, thank you so much!
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