Weeding, raking, washing....another day in the life.....

 6:10 am - Tuesday - May 23rd - LPG&RVR - 48° F, humidity 59%, wind 7 mph out of the north by northwest......cloudy today with a forecast high of 71° F.  On this date in 2016 I was headed to work at Tahoe Valley Campground in the rain.......↴

We are into that part of the season when the vacuum doesn't really do its job on Sundays anymore.  We have a large group of over 44 people occupying most of the sites in the park, and they will be here for a week, so the demand for rounds of golf, and golf carts only increased from Sunday.  In all we sent out 24 carts.....a lot for a Monday.  Monday is also one of the days we clear the golf balls from the driving range so it can be mowed.  

I headed out to make my rounds of the golf course and found the ducks/geese had  been quite active overnight....there are four tee boxes which they use to relieve themselves, and one of them took me 15 minutes all by itself to clear.  From there I headed to the sand trap next to hole #12 to weed it, and rake it.  Each week I weed the traps there are fewer and fewer weeds with which to contend, so it is taking less time to do so.

The two ponds straddling the #3 tee boxes

After completed my initial rounds I headed back out to see if any of the many foursomes were bunching up, and only found a couple, but they were happy with the rate of play, and did not want to 'play through'.  As one of them said to me....."I have no where to be today, and I have all day to get there".  That is a good way to live your retired life.....lol!

By the time I returned to the Clubhouse it was time for me to begin picking up the balls along the boundaries of the driving range where the ball picker cannot go, so I retrieved a 'Shag Bag' from the Clubhouse, and headed out to the range.  It took me about 45 minutes for that initial phase, and then I headed back to the rear of the range to run the ball picker up and down the upper, then lower driving range.  In all it took me another 45 minutes to get all the balls, then another 25 minutes to run them up to the 'Cart Return/Wash Stand' to put them in 5 gallon buckets to soak in soap and water until after lunch when I would wash finish washing them.

TLE took her customary lunch break at 12 pm, and the hour seemed to fly by as I dealt with one customer after another in TLE's absence.  After my lunch break I returned to find that 15 of the 24 carts had been returned, and awaited my attention, but first I needed to get those 4 buckets of balls washed, dried and put away.  After washing them I put them in wire baskets so they can air dry for a couple of hours before I put them back in the 55 gallon barrel.

Then the big task began....it was about 2:45 pm and I had 15 carts backed up in the Cart Return area with another 9 on the way, so I got to work washing them, and putting them away.  I was washing three at a time, but every time I finished with those there were three more added to the back of the line by returning golfers.  Finally, around 4:15 pm twenty-one of the twenty-four carts had been returned, washed and put away.  The final three would not be back until after 5 pm, so they will have to wait until Tuesday to get washed.

After dumping the now dry range balls into the 55 gallon barrel I mowed around the putting green until around 4:45 pm.  There will be more mowing Tuesday as I need to mow the usual tee boxes (3, 10, 15, 16, 17 & 18) again as it's been a week since the last time.  At any rate, while TLE closed the office down for another evening I ran down to the 'Night Registration Office' to flip the sign, and write down the available sites for those who arrive after 5 pm without reservations.

TLE and I ate dinner on the 'Lower Deck', and then sat on the 'Viewing Deck' until almost 7:30 pm watching the sun slowly slide to the western horizon one more time.

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