Marshal for a day.....

 7:30 am - Sunday - April 23rd - LPG&RVR - 41° F, humidity 76%, wind 1 mph out of the northwest.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 64° F.  On this date in 2018 we left Oklahoma, and entered Missouri (near Joplin) on our way to Maine for the summer......↴

Saturday was our Friday, meaning we will be off work now for the next four days beginning Sunday.  It was a mighty fine day, with temps into the mid 60's, partly cloudy with virtually no wind, so as one might imagine, there were quite a few people playing golf.  I initially staged 5 Club Car electrics, then another 5 of the Yamaha gassers.  In all we sent out 11 golf carts Saturday, which meant I needed to change hats, and become a Marshal.  After 3 days of a lot of work, which included copious amounts of lawn mowing, it was nice to drive out to the area between the 5th tee and the 15th tee where you can watch 4 fairways at the same time to see how the golfers are progressing around the course.  My main purpose is to be sure there are no bottlenecks with golfers waiting to tee off because the groups in front of them are playing slower.  When this happens I encourage the slower players to let those faster players behind them 'play through'.  I also get a chance to talk with the golfers as they pass by my cart, which I enjoy....

Looking back down the 4th fairway to the tee box from my vantage point

Golfers putting on the 4th green

....around 11:30 am I headed back to the Clubhouse just in case TLE needed more carts, and she did, but as I wrote above, only one more cart was rented, so 4 of the 5 carts I deployed (3rd bunch of 5) did not get a run around the course.  

I took over the Clubhouse office duties for an hour at 12 pm to give TLE her lunch break, then took my lunch break, which, on this day, was an hour as I wanted to be sure all the carts returning were cleaned, and put away so Walt, my counterpart, would not have to deal with washing any carts first thing in the morning on the first of his four work days.

Upon my return from lunch seven of the 11 golf carts were in the 'Cart Return' area, so I set about washing them, and putting them away, then headed back to my 'Marshal' duties at 2:30 pm.  There were 5 groups still on the course, and when I arrived at my vantage point, the first of those 5 groups was coming up the 14th fairway.  I waited there until all 5 groups had completed the 14th hole,  and knowing they only had 4 holes to play, headed back to the Clubhouse around 4:15 pm.

By 5 pm all the carts had been returned, cleaned, and put away for the night, and for the first time this season I worked to 5 pm.  And, also, for the first time this season, worked in short sleeves for most of the day.  Maybe shorts and t-shirt weather is not too far away?

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