Rain and hail....

 6:13 am - Wednesday - May 24th - LPG&RVR - 39° F, humidity 77%, wind 0 mph out of the northwest.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 72° F.  Rained overnight, but clear this morning.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were walking around Old Town Grand Junction, CO, and spied a micro brewery open for business, so snagged an alfresco table and ordered appetizers and brews.....↴

Rockslide Brewing Company

Walking around Old Town Grand Junction

....it was a tonic to be able to walk around and see people not wearing masks and just living normal lives once again.

Tuesday was to be another busy day at LPG&RVR, so I stagged 15 carts to begin the day, and we rented every single one of them.  For most golf courses 15 golf carts being rented is a very slow day, but here, mid week, it is a big deal.  

After completing my morning rounds of the golf course I fueled up the big Husqvarna riding lawn mower, and began to mow one large piece of grass after another.....there was the parking lot grass, the small Pavilion grass, the large grass circle next to site #30, the large grass area at the group firepit area, and then 5 water and electric sites....all before lunch time! In all I hauled 4 large trailer loads of grass cuttings out to the cow pasture....the cows came running when they saw me arrive....they love fresh cut grass!

By the time I returned from my lunch break at 2 pm there were 9 golf carts awaiting their daily spa treatment, but right in the middle of washing them the power went out (most of Modoc County was out due to a lightning strike).  When we lose power we also lose water pressure, so I put aside the cart washing, fueled up the small Husqvarna and headed out to mow the tee boxes I mow once a week.  

The skies were quite foreboding as I arrived at the #3 tee boxes, and as I mowed I could see rain falling on the local mountains in the distance.  This is one of the things I love about this area.....you can see weather coming from miles away.  Knowing my time was short I moved quickly from one tee box to the next, and just as I was finishing the final tee box on hole #18 it began to sprinkle so I made a bee line for the Clubhouse, arriving just before it began to rain, and then hail in earnest.  I parked the Husqvarna, and got under cover quickly.  The initial rain lasted about 10 minutes, and then I was able to finish washing the remaining 5 golf carts (all 15 had been returned while I was mowing tee boxes), as the power had come back on just before I returned from my trip around the golf course.

Just as I was putting the last golf carts away it began to hail again, but I was under cover....nothing like great timing.  And to make things even better TLE had closed the office down, and was ready to go home...perfect!

Today, Wednesday, TLE and I are driving to Redding to get a new smog certificate for the VW.  A new one is required every other year.  We've had no 'CHECK ENGINE' lights for 4 months, the last one being when we had issues with the ignitions coils.  Since then we've had the car in for service in early April, and just this month I replaced all the ignition coils and spark plugs with OEM stuff, so she is running like a champ.  We'll be leaving right after work today, and driving about a 100 miles (its 160+ to Redding) to a small town named Burney where we will overnight before arriving at A-1 Smog at 7 am on Thursday morning.  Here's hoping there are no 'CHECK ENGINE' lights between now and then....lol.

During dinner it began to rain again, accompanied by lightning and thunder for about an hour.  I think that is the first significant lighting and thunder we've experienced here at LPG&RVR.  After dinner we caught up on a few episodes of Amazon Prime's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.  This is one of the best written TV series we have ever watched.  It is in season 5 now, and if you have not watched it take a look....I think you will like it.

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