A stain......

4:07 pm - Sunday - July 16th - LPG&RVR - 99° F, humidity 15%, 11 mph out of the west.....partially cloudy today with a forecast high of 100° F.  On this date in 2020 we were in Harlowtown, MT.....↴ 

We expected Sunday to be our first triple digit temperature day, but it got to just 99° F.....close but no cigar.  There is some psychological benefit to not hitting the dreaded 100° F, but telling the difference between that and 99° F  is like trying to tell the difference between 10 year old single malt Scotch, and 12 year old single malt Scotch.....frankly, I cannot.  Sunday has the same forecast as Saturday, so we will see if it hits 100° F, and if it does, will it feel discernibly different from Saturday?

My last task remaining from the flooring project was to stain my work station a darker color to more closely match the new flooring.  We purchased this work station at a Campingworld near Salt Lake City back in 2013 when we were installing the prior 'wood' vinyl flooring, and while it was a shade, or two lighter back then than that flooring, it is now quite a bit lighter than the new flooring.....

....originally there was a queen size convertible couch in that space where the work station now resides, and when we removed it we had to create a 'wire chase' to hide the wires which previously had run under the couch.  The top of that wire chase was, until Saturday, raw wood, but is now stained to match the wall, and new flooring.....

....once that was done we put everything back in its place, and turned on the replay of the 14th stage of Le Tour de France, and spent the afternoon watching that whilst watching the outside temperature slowly rise towards the anticipated triple digits, but it never got there, as I wrote earlier.

The temperature at the time of the weekly putting contest at 4 pm was still 99° F, and even though we were sitting in the shade, there was no breeze, and it was more or less stifling.  I managed to win my first match against the owner of LPG&RVR, Dennis Tate, in a playoff after 5 holes, but fell in the second round due to my poor putting from short distances.  After 4 holes I was tied with my opponent, whom I had defeated the week before, in spite of my poor second putts (my first putts were very good, as usual), and made an excellent first put to within 12" of the hole. He got a little closer than I at 6", so it appeared I was going to play another playoff hole, however, I missed my short 12" putt, much to my disbelief, and was eliminated....doh!  A little lack of concentration, and a little over confidence were my downfall.

TLE and I were home a tad after 6 pm to the ever so cool Newell interior.....our A/C is working splendidly.  Both of our roof units are 41 years old, and still working amazingly well.  We can still keep the interior very comfortable in 99° F temperatures with just one of the roof airs working.

I was in bed by 9 pm as my plan was to be up by 5:30 am Sunday, and at work by 6:30 am in order to work 8 straight hours, and be off by 2:30 pm Sunday afternoon, just as the temperatures will hit their high for the day, whatever that will end up being.

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