Buckle up, and hold on tight!

7:37 am - Monday - August 15th - Likely, CA - 56° F, 43% humidity, wind - CALM out of the northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 95° F.  On this date in 2014 TLE and I were having lunch at Walker Burger in Walker, CA on our way to Mammoth Mountain......↴

Now, for the first time since I began to blog daily back in October of 2012 I am three days behind, so today's blog will be a three in one.....Friday, Saturday and Sunday.....buckle up, and hold on tight!

Friday:

I was on the job by 6:30 am as has been my habit for some weeks now.  I'm kind of addicted to getting off work at 3 pm.  It hasn't been that hot lately.....mostly 90-92° F.....and I could probably go to work at my normal hour and get off at 5 pm, but I would rather still get off at 3 pm.  If mowing needs to be done, which it did Friday, we don't do any mowing within the RV park before 10 am, so I decided to do some much needed weeding.  In all I hauled away three wagon load of weeds from an area down in the gravel pull through sites before 10 am.  

Next up I retrieved the Husqvarna self propelled lawnmower to mow the four employee sites, which includes ours, which takes less than an hour, then retrieved the John Deere riding lawnmower to mow tent sites 4-10 once again.  I managed to get that area done in another hour, and was back to the Clubhouse in time to relieve TLE for her lunch break.  

After my 30 minute lunch break (1-1:30 pm) I headed back to the 'Cart Return' area to begin washing carts.  In all we had rented around 25 carts Friday....one of our busiest Friday's in a  while, but by 3 pm only 10 had been returned.  Saturday we had a tournament scheduled, so I knew I would have to wash 15 carts quickly Saturday morning to be ready for the tournament.

By the way, I shot a short video of me mowing the blue tee box at the 18th hole the other day, and forgot to post it, so here it is.  Thought you might like to see how I do it.....

Saturday:

The overnight lows have been getting into the low 40' lately, and at 6:30 am Saturday morning it was cold enough that I wished I had worn gloves. I've been wearing long pants to work lately to protect my legs from the mosquitoes, but Saturday I wore shorts, because I was going to be marshalling on the golf course during the tournament (Rich Hamel Memorial Tournament) since Mike was playing in the tournament.  Needless to say, I was slightly under dressed for the temperature at 6:30 am.

I was able to get all 15 golf carts left over from Friday washed, and staged with the other carts before 8 am, and by 9 am I was out on the course marshalling.....

Ready to marshal.....

.....I had to return to the Clubhouse at 12 pm to relieve TLE, and by 1:30 pm, after my lunch break, I began to wash the first of 26 golf carts.  Of course I can only wash what is returned, and by 3 pm, my quitting time, only 10 carts had been returned.  Of course Saturday is also 'Putting Contest' day, so I headed home to shower, and change clothes to be back in time for the 4 pm start time.  Once again I did not make it out of the first round.....go figure.  I seem to have lost my confidence, and need to trust my instincts more.  By the third hole I was down 2-0, but tied the 3rd hole with a very good putt, then sank my first putt on 4, only to tie the 5th hole and lose 2-1.  To be fair to myself, I did regain my confidence by the 3 hole, but the damage was already done.  TLE didn't putt as she was working until 5 pm, but  she did stay around to see the final winner.  We were home by 6 pm at which time I took a long nap....that was a long day!

Sunday:

Every time we drive into Alturas TLE and I both comment that we should walk up and down Main Street (US-395) and take pictures of all the building murals, so a week ago we agreed that we would drive into Alturas Sunday, get some coffee at the Starbucks located inside the historic Nile Hotel, then walk up and down Main Street taking pictures of all of the murals, and of whatever else might strike our collective fancies......

.....surprisingly, there are a lot of building murals in Altura.  You might remember back in 2017 when we were in Lompoc, CA, that we did the same thing.....I wrote about that here.  At any rate, I'll let the pictures do the talking.....

The historic Niles Theater, a single screen theater

The Alturas Elks Lodge is a beautiful Mission style building with a bell tower!

No mural, but I had to take a picture of Rubios Taquieria....best Mexican food in Modoc County!

A nail salon

....whilst we were walking and photographing I got a call from a prospective winter employer to whom we had sent our resumes a few days ago.  This job is one we have looked at in the past, but just never pulled the trigger on, but this year we decided it was time.  I'll save the details for when we confirm we have the jobs, but I know you will be envious.....lol!

Another thing we have talked about doing for months, was to drive our #20 Club Car golf cart up to the highest hill at LPG&RVR to watch the sun set, which, until now, was just too late, but now the sun is setting, locally, before 8 pm, so we crossed another 'to do' item off our list Sunday night. We left the Newell around 7:30 pm.  From the top of the hill we had a 360° view of the Likely Rancheria valley.....it is beautiful......

....we took a couple of chairs with us, and some sunset snacks along with a bottle of Catina Malbec.....our favorite Malbec.  We discovered this wine when we were in Southwest Harbor back in August of 2018, and buy it whenever we come across it now....I think we've got 4, or 5 bottles of it now......

.....by 7:50 pm the sun had slipped behind the mountains to our west.......

.....I asked TLE to take a video of our surroundings......beautiful!

So, there you go......three days in one blog post, and what a third day!  Thank you for your patience.  I promise to try and stay more current.....we'll see, shan't we?

Thank for stopping by!