8:21 am - Thursday - June 9th - Likely, CA - 47° F, humidity 63%, wind 1 mph out of the north by northeast.....mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 85° F. On this date in 2020 we were dry camping on the shores of Henry's Lake near Island Park, ID......↴
Wednesday I staged 24 golf carts, and we ended up renting 21. Of course, what goes out, must come back.....
All staged and ready for the day....about 8:30 am
....the wife (Debbie) of the guy (Mike) who is normally the course Marshall had to have an emergency appendectomy a week, or so ago, and she is still recuperating so he has been attending to her needs, which necessitates me, or Walt to fill in for him when we are on duty, which means we need to make several rounds of the golf course each day in addition to our normal mowing, weed whipping, cart staging/washing duties, which means we are each stretched pretty thin each day. This has been going on for a week now, and by the end of each day I am whipped. Once again I don't think I stopped moving all day long except for lunch.
On Wednesday I made three rounds of the course to be sure all the twosomes, foursomes, threesomes, etc. were moving along, and there were no bottlenecks. I also mowed 6 pull through RV sites, plus the employee lawns, plus hauled two large loads of grass clippings out to our dump site. There was the normal cart washing in the afternoon, and a trip out to the tee boxes on 10 and 3 to mow them. To mow the employee sites, and pull through sites I have to physically pull the picnic table off the grass in each site to mow, then pull the table back onto the grass when I'm done. That's a lot of heavy work for a 72+ year old guy, and I feel it at the end of the day. Additionally, one of the older Club Car gassers would not start when I went to put it away at the end of the day, so I had to push it over to the 'sick bay' area for Bob to work his magic, and get it running.
Fortunately, Walt has offered to work an extra day this week to help get caught up on the mowing, so I can concentrate on my normal duties. Thursday I will spend a couple of hours clearing all the golf balls off the driving range so it can be mowed, so I will not have any time to do any mowing, or weed whipping. All that being said, I'm doing fine, and not really complaining. I like feeling tired at the end of the day....I like the feeling of getting everything done which needs to be done each day, and how good the park looks in spite of us being a little behind. Hopefully Mike's wife will be back on her feet soon, and we can all return to regularly scheduled programming!
We headed over to Charles and Phyllis' 5th wheel for our farewell dinner around 6 pm. Phyllis made Chicken Alfredo for us, and was it ever delicious! Those Houghtaling girls can really cook! We were home a little before 7 pm, and by 9 pm we were heading off to dreamland once again.
Thanks for stopping by!
When we volunteered at Olympic Nat'l Park, I was concerned about the bugs. We were right on a lake, and it was in the rain forest. I was told by the rangers that I should take vitamin B-1 for the bugs, and I didn't get bitten all Summer. But we did have mice problems. You buy it at helthfood stores or on Amazon. No need to put bug spray on.
ReplyDeleteThank you John. We will definitely get some B-1, and give it a try!
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