Another typical May.....

 6:16 am - Wednesday - May 27th - LPG&RVR - 39° F, humidity 79%, cloud cover 87%, wind 8 mph out of the north by northwest.....heavy cloud cover again this morning with rain showers forecast throughout the morning, and early afternoon as well as a high of 57° F.  The view this morning....

......at least there is no snow this morning....lol!  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were in Meeker, CO....

.....at the Town Park right on the White River....Glenn and Laureen had just rejoined the summer tour after spending time with relatives in Southern Colorado.

The rain fell most of the night Monday night/Tuesday morning, but the sound of rain on our riveted aircraft aluminum roof ceased about 3:30 am.  What we didn't know until we opened the curtains Tuesday morning was that the rain had turned to snow right about that time.  We don't mind snow once and a while, especially when it will disappear before noon time.  Nevertheless, snow on the ground means no one will be playing golf first thing, so we can sleep in a little later than usual.  We finally climbed out of bed around 6 am to begin day two of our four day work week, and were on the job just before 8 am.  

I didn't stage any golf carts as it was raining, and hung around the Clubhouse about 30 minutes before leaving TLE to her daily office chores, and heading home until it was time to give her a lunch break.  The temp didn't get out of the 30's until late morning.  When I returned to the Clubhouse at 12 pm TLE was just sending out a few intrepid golfers to play 9 holes.  In all we rented just 5 golf carts Tuesday.  The rain came and went all afternoon, so I'm sure some of them got a little wet.  After lunch I spent about an hour checking the water levels in the thirty 6 volt batteries we use to power the five Club Car electrics, then headed home around 2 pm.

I spent the most of the day taking naps, and catching up on the YouTube channels to which I subscribe, so the time passed quickly,  and soon I was heading back to the Clubhouse to wash/stow the carts we had rented to find that four of the five had returned, so I'll have one to clean Wednesday morning.  By the time I finished TLE was ready to head for home.  I worked about 3 hours in all Tuesday, and it appears that Wednesday will be more of the same.  The forecast shows rain on and off until late afternoon, so not sure how many carts we'll rent.  May is always like this here in the Pitt River Valley, and the 2026 version of May is no different than past years.  A week of 80's weather gives way to four, or five days of mid 50's weather with rain and snow.

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Emergency!

 6:19 am - Tuesday - May 26th - LPG&RVR - 35° F, humidity 65%, cloud cover 86%, wind 7 mph out of the north by northwest......heavy cloud cover this morning with snow on the ground, and a forecast high of 53° F.  The view this morning.....

....in addition to the rain last night, we got about 1/2 inch of snow.  There won't be any golf being played this morning.  And on this date in 2013 TLE and I were working traffic control at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.....

....prior Race Day....we worked sixteen 12 hour shifts up to, and including the race....really enjoyed that job!

Monday would be the warmest day this week with a forecast high of 79° F, so we were on our way to work by 7:30 am.  I headed down to flip the sign, and retrieve any overnight registrations which might have occurred to find that  Jose had graded the old mobile site, and planted grass seed....

......in a few weeks you will never know that old mobile home was there.  On my way to the Clubhouse I picked up TLE, and were there about 7:35 am to find there were 15 golf carts left over from Sunday which needed to be washed and stowed.  While TLE headed inside to open the office I began to clean the trash off the carts, and get them ready for their spa treatment.  I had just gathered up all the keys when I saw TLE walking back to the Clubhouse from the dumpster where she had disposed of some office trash. I headed over to hand her the keys when she suddenly tripped and fell headlong onto the very rough asphalt.  By the time I got to her she was rolling over and displaying large gashes in her left knee and elbow.  It was not a pretty site.  I helped her to her feet, then walked her over to the Club Car Villager #20 explaining I was going to take her into the ER in town to have her wounds treated and dressed.....there was just too much dirt in there for me to properly clean out.

After leaving her at the cart I headed into the office to tell the waiting customers (there were about 20 people waiting for service) what happened, and that I had to take TLE into town to the ER.  I called Kathy Smith, the office manager, and asked her to come down to take care of the customers while we were in town, and then called Claude to come over and take care of the 15 carts, and stage any more carts Kathy might need.  I had already staged the 5 Club Car electrics.  Finally I called Jose Madrigal the General Manager, and advised him of the work place accident.

We were in the VW heading for town by 8:30 am, and there 20 minutes later.  There was no wait, so TLE was taken into the back room immediately to be examined, and for the first time in years I was the one in the Waiting Room waiting to hear her disposition.  The doctor used derma bond (glue) to close TLE's wounds to her knee and elbow.  They didn't want to stitch her up due to the contamination from the dirt.  While they liberally irrigated the wounds with hydrogen peroxide, they didn't want to sew her up in case there is infection.  She finally emerged from the ER a little after 10 am, and we were soon on our way back to LPG&RVR.

Amazingly, by the time we returned to LPG&RVR, TLE was feeling better, and decided to return to work for the balance of the day.  We both just worked straight through to 5 pm.  I returned to find that Claude, bless his heart, had washed all 15 carts, and had staged enough carts to get the customers out on the golf course.  

I checked in on TLE numerous times throughout the day to find her doing quite well.  I was able to get all of the employee lawns mowed, as well as the three large grass areas in the permanent sites up the hill.  By 2 pm all but one of the 21 golf carts we had rented had returned, so I began washing and stowing them, and by 5 pm the last cart had returned, so all the carts, for the first time in a few days, were stowed when TLE and I headed home for the evening.

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One more project down.....

 6:05 am - Monday - May 25th - LPG&RVR - 49° F, humidity 36%, cloud cover 27%, wind 9 mph out of the north by northwest.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 79° F.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I had just arrived in Meeker, CO.....

....at their cool park which offers 50 amp electricity, a dump station, and fresh water, right on the White River....probably one of our all time favorite places to spend a few days.  I think it was about $25/night.  And on this Monday, 5/25/2026, our humble little blog just surpassed 4 million all time views....

....and for the first time ever, our monthly views have surpassed 200,000 with a week to go in the month!  We've been averaging over 8,000 views a day.

On the final morning of our four day 'weekend' we slept in until after 7:30 am.  It promised to be another beautiful day here at LPG&RVR with a daytime high of around 80° F at 4 pm....mostly clear skies, and balmy breezes all day long.  I spent about an hour first thing cutting and fitting a piece of green Sunbrella fabric to the underside of our patio awning where the little wheel which sits atop our entry door runs its small arc along the fabric each time the door is opened to protect it from the sharp edge of the door.  That little wheel has done its job for over 44 years, but over that time it began to wear a pattern into the Sunbrella fabric of the patio awning, and was threatening to go completely through....

In this picture you can see one of the fabric swatches I used a while back (top of picture)

....over the years I have patched a few of the worst places with fabric samples provided by Zip Dee Awnings many years ago, but I ran out of the swatches recently, so had to buy some Sunbrella off Amazon.  I used cardboard to make the arcing pattern, which I traced onto the fabric, then cut, and affixed it to the underside of the awning with clear GE silicone caulk.

That was the extent of any work I did Sunday.  I spent the rest of the day ensconced in my anti gravity chair enjoying the CJ Cup Byron Nelson Tournament.  Mid afternoon I watched a chipmunk (much smaller than a squirrel) exploring our 'lido deck'....

....I was in the full recline position at the time, and this little guy jumped over 15" onto the top of my right foot....well, that was a surprise.....lol!!

I can't get over how beautiful TLE's flowers are this summer.....the poppies are just exploding....

.....the latest PGA tournament was close until the last 3 holes when Wyndham Clark pulled away from the field winning by 5 strokes over Scotties Scheffler, who was the defending champion.  Until then he was consistently one, or two strokes behind.  Wyndham posted an 11 under par score of 60 in the final round, while Scottie managed a 65, which is not anything at which to sneeze.

And with that another LPG&RVR day came to a delightful end.  Time to begin another four day work cycle (Monday through Thursday this week).  Thanks for stopping by!

One putt short.....

 8:17 am - Sunday - May 24th - LPG&RVR - 60° F, humidity 28%, cloud cover 30%, wind 2 mph out of the west......partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 81° F.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were touring Colorado National Monument.....

.....located between Grand Junction and Fruita, Colorado.  This tour was recommended by Rich and Marnie Aaron, our managers during our 9 month stay at Ramona Oaks RV Resort.  It was a great recommendation!  We were staying a few days at the Elks Lodge in Grand Junction as we continued our tour of rural America during the summer of the Wuhan Flu.

I was wide awake at 6 am, so I decided not to fight it and just get up.  TLE, on the other hand, slept until 7 am.  While the daily temps have been in the low 80's the past few days, which is fine with us....we're not working....lol.  When we return to work Monday to begin our next 4 day work week they will fall again into the 50's and 60's with a 50+% chance of rain Tuesday and Wednesday, so the topsy turvy weather typical here in May in northeastern California continues.  Ironically, contrary to the forecast, it rained Saturday afternoon  for about 30 minutes....did not see that coming.

Frankly, I didn't do much Saturday except giving my anti zero gravity chair a workout while watching round three of the Byron Nelson tournament in West Texas.  The day ended with Scottie Scheffler in 2nd place at 19 under par, just two strokes behind the leader.

TLE and I headed over to the Clubhouse for the weekly putting contest around 3:50 pm  Tragically, I did not make it out of the first round.  For the 5th time in the last 4 weeks I found myself in a one hole putt off (closest to the hole) after being tied at the end of 5 holes.  For the fourth time I lost that putt off.....doh!  I'm putting pretty well, but continually find myself tied after 5 holes, falling one putt short of advancing to the next round.

I was just commenting to TLE a few minutes ago that we have not even been here at month (we arrived April 27th), but it seems like longer.....not in a bad way, I assure you.  We love being here, we love the people, and we love our site.

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Two perfect days in a row?

 6:49 am - Saturday - May 23rd - LPG&RVR - 52° F, humidity 37%, cloud cover 28%, wind 1 mph out of the southeast.....partially cloudy today with a forecast high of 81° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were in South Lake Tahoe.....

....and this was the view we saw that morning at Tahoe Valley Campground.

Friday was day of projects and firsts.  My laziness has created a backlog of small projects which need attention, and Friday seemed like a great day to start shrinking that 'to do' list.  That first word in 'to do' as used implies a future act, and the future always seems to be just out of reach, but not so Friday.

First on my mental 'to do' list was to repair the solar light we hang from the patio awning.  A week, or so ago we had bad winds one afternoon while we were at work, and the safety pin which affixes that light to the underside of the patio awning came unfastened and resulted in the light dangling in the breeze, twisting and turning repeatedly, causing the wires which feed sun generated electricity to it's battery to come apart.  To rejoin them would mean complete disassembly, which I knew would take time to do, so with no obligations at any time Friday it was the perfect time to dig into it.  Ultimately I soldered the black and red wires back together, used shrink tubing to insulate them, then reassembled the light....

....and rehung it.  These lights are pretty simple, and it now works again as it should.

I began a project for TLE a couple of months while we were still at The Wilson Wilderness, but never finished it until Friday.  I needed a few more small Phillips head screws to complete the task of fastening the sheets of stainless steel to the underside of her stove top cover.  You will recall I attempted to reglue them a few months ago, but the glue failed, even though it was warranted to be 'heat resistant'.  My final solution was to fasten them in place using the aforementioned very small Phillips head screws...

....it turned out well, and TLE approves, so project finally completed.

While I was in the trailer working on these projects it occurred to me that I hadn't paid a tag fee for the trailer in a long time.  It's one of those California Permanent Plates, that are renewed online every 5 years.....

....you never get anything in the mail on these plates, and must remember to pay the measly $10 fee ($2/year) every five years.  The last time I remember paying the renewal fee was back in 2017.....9 years ago.  Well, I went to the California DMV website, and entered the trailer information to check its status, and was advised no fees are due at this time, and will not be due until February of 2027.  I checked my phone calendar and found that I had set a reminder for the middle of January 2027 to pay the renewal, so all is good for another 9 months....whew!

A few weeks ago I found two perfectly fine camp chairs sitting by the dumpster down by the Clubhouse, and decided to take them home.  All that was wrong with them was they were missing the Masonite inserts for the folding 'table' each one had.  Well, I ordered some Masonite off Amazon (you can get pretty much anything from Amazon!), and it arrived a few days ago, so I decided to make that minor repair to the chairs....

.....the hardest part was cutting the rounded corners.  The Masonite pieces I ordered were already the prefect width, so all I had to do was shape the corners and install them.  I cut out a template using cardboard, then overlaid the cardboard on the Masonite.....easy peasy!

With the completion of that third 'to do' list project I declared the rest of the day would be spent in my anti gravity chair watching golf....the first time I've done that this season....

....and that is what I did until almost 5 pm.  Is it even possible to have back to back 'perfect days'.....I'm not sure about everyone else, but I did!  Life is good here at Likely Place Golf & RV Resort.

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A perfect day.....

 7:55 am - Friday - May 22nd - LPG&RVR - 58° F, humidity 23%, cloud cover 8%, wind ZERO mph.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 80° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were working at Tahoe Valley Campground in South Lake Tahoe...

....this is good nomadic friend Art Young whom we originally met at Amazon during the Peak Season of 2014.....little did we know then that within a couple of weeks we would be on our way to finish the summer in Yellowstone NP with Art.

I'm not sure if I have given an update on the status of my right knee in some time.  You will recall that during the summer of 2024 I began to have a lot of pain in my right knee, and eventually travelled down to Reno to  Great Basin Orthopedics to have it examined, and receive a diagnosis.  As my doctor said...."Clarke, the problem with your knee is your date of birth....".  In essence I had developed Ostio Arthritis in the joint, and was suffering from some 'bone on bone' due to loss of cartilage over 7 decades of life.  At the time I was given a cortisone shot, which immediately, and I do mean IMMEDIATELY, reduced the discomfort, and pain to ZERO.    Over the course of the next 12 months, as the cortisone shot lost its effectiveness, the pain began to return in March, and by May of 2025 I needed another cortisone shot, which, once again, provided immediate relief, but by August I was in pain again.  At that time Kathy (she ran the restaurant until the end of the summer of 2024) advised I should also be taking collagen......

This is what I take...I get it from Amazon....it is a 'gummie'....I take one per day, but they recommend 2 per day

....I'm not usually a 'believer' in supplements, but was hurting, and thus added collagen to my daily pill taking routine.  Dr. Freyda will only give one cortisone shot a year, and once it doesn't work anymore it is either time for a knee replacement, or you see how long you can take the pain.  Well, here is the interesting part.   I noticed in late 2025 that I was not needing to take Tylenol as often for my knee pain, and by early 2026 I noticed the pain was all but gone.  I still had occasional stiffness, and a little discomfort, but nothing like before.  To be fair, I still have Ostio Arthritis, and I still have instability in my right knee due to cartilage loss, but the pain is pretty much not an issue anymore.  I was stunned, to say the least.  As I write in late May of 2026 my status is pretty much unchanged.....no pain, just occasional stiffness, and mild discomfort.  I have now been taking a collagen supplement faithfully since August of 2025.  It took about 15 months to have an effect, but it seems to be working.  I have no idea if it would work for you, but it has worked for me.

TLE and I slept in until after 7 am, as is our custom, Thursday.  It took me a while to write two blog posts in order to get current once again, but by 9:30 am TLE and I were on our way into town to do a big shopping.  We hit all of our favorite stores.....ACE Hardware, Dollar General, Grocery Outlet, and Holiday Market.  As a bonus, we stopped at 'Java Doctor' for Frappuccinos to consume on our way home, where we arrived a little after 12 pm.  It took quite a while to put away all of our purchases. 

TLE's garden is looking great after just a few weeks.  All three planters are weeded, and brimming with flowers much earlier than last summer....

....around 1 pm I headed over to the putting green at the Clubhouse to practice putting, and spent time talking with customers who passed by, as well as Steve, who is my 'stunt double'....lol...actually he works my job during my four day weekends.  He's doing a great job, but still getting settled into the routine.

Around 5 pm I fired up the Sea-B-Que to grill a salmon steak TLE purchased during our 'big shopping' spree.  She added white rice, and some sort of grilled honey cream corn (?), which was delicious.....

.....we're trying to eat alfresco every opportunity we have when it is not windy, as it often is in the afternoon.

Thursday was the perfect first day of a four day weekend, and I cannot think of anything that might have made it any better than it was....the temp was in the high 70's with a balmy breeze, and no mosquitoes....am I right, or am I right?  Okay, time to begin day two of our four day weekend!

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A busy fourth day!

 8:02 am - Thursday - May 21st - LPG&RVR - 58° F, humidity 28%, cloud cover 16%, wind 3 mph out of the north....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies this morning with a forecast high of 78° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were in Tahoe City.....

....having lunch at the Bridgetender Tavern and Grill, right across the street from 'Fanny Bridge'...I'm sure you understand why it is called 'Fanny Bridge'.

Okay, now for Wednesday's happenings.  As we edge toward this year's version of Memorial Day the park is pretty empty, but by Thursday it will begin to fill up quickly.  Time to get everything mowed when there are very few RV's around which to mow, so after another quick round of the golf course I got busy doing just that, and by lunch time I had mowed the small Gazebo, the large grass area by site #30, the group fire pit grass, all five pull through, water/electric sites, 8 of the 10 full hookup sites, all 10 of the back in sites, as well as tent sites 1 through 3.  Now that the 2 bag Husqvarna is fixed I can get a lot of mowing done in a short period of time.  

I gave TLE her usual lunch break, and was not nearly as busy as Tuesday.  After lunch I headed out to finish the final two full hookup, pull through sites, then headed out to the golf course to mow around those tee boxes for which I am responsible.  I was back in a record breaking 45 minutes.  I still had about 40 minutes of my work day left, so I washed and dried the golf balls I had garnered from the driving range on Monday, then washed the golf carts which had been returned.  I was home a little after 3:30 pm taking a long, hot shower, then a nap.  I returned early (around 4:45 pm) again to take care of the rest of the golf carts of which only one had not yet been returned.  Once again, by the time I finished stowing the final cart TLE had finished closing the office....perfect timing!  Let the four day weekend begin!

Claude came over around 5:20 pm with a platter of freshly grilled 'London Broil', some chips and olives.  The 'London Broil' was perfectly seasoned, and melt in your mouth delicious.  We ate and talked about an hour before Claude headed for home....his 4 day work week begins Thursday....

....are we a handsome gang, or what?!  Thanks for stopping by!