Keeping up......

 6:27 am - Friday - June 10th - Likely, CA - 50° F, humidity 64%, wind - CALM....partly cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 86° F.  On this date in 2013 we were having an early lunch at Bodega Brewing Company in La Crosse, WI.....↴

I could feel the warmth in the windless air as I motored to another day of golf cart washing around 7:40 am Thursday.  Knowing Walt would be working an extra day to get caught up on our mowing took away some of the anxiety one feels when one has more to do than hours in the work day permit.  I staged the 5 electric Club Cars, and 10 gasser Yamahas to start the day then took a run around the golf course to be sure all was well before the first customers of the day hit the links.   We've had people going out at 8 am every day this week, and others not finishing until well after 5 pm, which means there area always 1-3 carts to wash first thing in the morning.  We ended up renting 21 golf carts on Thursday....not a bad day.

Thursday was also my day to clear the golf balls from the driving range in advance of DeWayne mowing the grass.  I started around the edges of the driving range around 9:30 am with the hand held 'Shag Bag' picking up the range balls not reachable by the ball machine, and by 10:30 am I was pushing the ball machine up and down the driving range with the old Yamaha golf cart retrieving the balance of the range balls.  I was finished with that that task by 11:25 am.....just in time to give TLE her lunch break.  For all my efforts I had between two and three 5 gallon cans full of balls to be cleaned, and then returned to the large trash can in the Clubhouse.

By the time I came back from my lunch break I had 9 golf carts to clean, and return to the shelter of the cart shack, then I made a couple of more rounds around the course to be sure there were no bottlenecks anywhere....we don't want golfers to have to wait on other slower golfers.  Where necessary we ask slower golfers to allow the faster ones to 'play through'.  So far this has not been necessary as everyone seems to be spread out between holes keeping play moving along nicely.

Thursday was kind of a windless day, which makes the warm, sultry air feel warmer than it is, and I was seeking out shade as often as I could.  The golf carts trickled back in at a leisurely pace so I was able to keep up with their cleaning without getting overwhelmed.  By 5 pm I had all but 2 golf carts accounted for, and expect to find them at the cart station first thing Friday. 

Overall Friday was a good day, and I was able to get everything done that was required of me.  I headed home shortly after 5 pm to get a shower, and TLE was home about 10 minutes later as I was getting out of the shower.  We sat on the 'lido deck' until almost 7 pm enjoying the early evening breezes sipping some white wine.  Around 7 pm we headed back inside to watch the latest episode of this season's 'Alone'.....TLE made me a BLT for dinner.....how sweet is she?

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