NO rain....

 6:24 am - Monday - May 8th - LPG&RVR - 42° F, humidity 72%, wind 11 mph out of the south.....cloudy with a forecast of rain later this morning, and a high of 45° F.  On this date in 2012 we were visiting Buffalo Bill's home in North Platte, Nebraska......↴

Finally, a day without rain.  Sure, the temps were still frigid, and there was this blustery wind which would cut right through your coat, but there was NO rain, and that meant I could actually get a few things done outdoors.  We sent out 12 golf carts in total Sunday, but many of them were being used by 4 high schools for practice rounds before their one day tournament on Monday.  

I made my initial rounds of the course scooping duck/goose droppings off the #3 tee boxes, and a few greens, then weeded, and raked all four sand traps.  There were fewer weeds than last time, and if I can stay on top of it, they will be less and less of a problem over the summer.

Bob, our mechanic resurrected an older Husqvarna riding lawnmower whose mowing deck is the same size of the slow John Deere.  It hadn't been running for a few years, and needed some parts to get her fully functional again.  The reason for the resurrection was that this mower is two times faster (it breezes a long at a brisk 6-7 mph) than the John Deere (top speed is 2.5-3 mph), which means it will take me about half the time to circumnavigate the course on days when I mow around the tee boxes on 3, 10, 15, 16, 17 & 18, and they needed mowing Sunday in preparation for the High School tournament.  I headed out for the inaugural trip around 3 pm, and returned around 4:15 pm.  With the John Deere it takes me over 2 hours to make the same circuit.

I returned just in time to begin washing the carts which had returned, and was finished a tad before 5 pm.  I wore my vest, and winter coat with hood (the one I bought in Yellowstone back in the summer of 2017) most of the day, plus my watch cap, and gloves, but at least there was NO rain.  Time passes much more quickly when you are busy.

As I write the skies are darkening, and it looks like the rain forecast to begin around 9 am is on its way.  According to the weather guessers the rain will be with us until around 6 pm.....I don't think the high schoolers will enjoy that too much....their tournament begins, rain or shine, at 11 am with a 'shotgun' start.  I hope they have their rain gear with them.

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