When Wednesday becomes Friday.....

 8:34 am - Thursday - July 20th - LPG&RVR - 72° F, humidity 27%, wind 0 mph out of the south by southeast with crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today, and a forecast high of 95° F.  On this date in 2014 I was mountain biking at Mammoth Mountain with good friends......↴

Wednesday was our Friday this week, which means we will be able to watch all four days of The Open (British Open).  I was, once again at work by 6:30 am, and enjoying the early morning coolness, and quiet.  I have to say that I have adjusted much more quickly to the heat, and for those of you who live in Arizona, or another of the southwest states, the kind of heat I refer to is a day you would love to see when you are seeing temps up to 120° F, and over 100° F for weeks at a time.  The forecast high for Wednesday was only 94° F, but for me that is hot.  At any rate, the 90's temps are not bothering me the way they did last year, and for that I am grateful.

Once again the tee time sheet did not have many names on it, so I just staged the 10 Yamaha gassers, deciding Wednesday was the day to service the 6 Trojan deep cycle, 6 volt batteries in each of the Club Car electrics.  Those deep cycle batteries are very thirsty, especially when it gets over 90° F, and to top off all 30 batteries took 1 gallon of distilled water per  6 cart.  It took me almost 2 hours to go through all 5 carts, but now we're good for a couple of weeks....

Looking toward the 6th fairway (left), the 16th hole (foreground), and 17th tee boxes (right)

The 16th hole

.....once that was done I set out a few sprinklers to water some dry areas of grass, made a couple of rounds of the golf course to check on conditions, and play, but, as you can imagine, the few golfers on the course where pretty spread out.  I also spent time looking for lost golf balls between the 16th tees and the 16th hole, and found 8 before heading back to the Clubhouse.

By the time 2:30 pm rolled around only 4 of the 8 golf carts had been returned, so Walt will have 4 to wash first thing Thursday.  I watched most of Stage 17 of Le Tour.  At the beginning of the 16th stage just 10 seconds separated 1st and 2nd place, but by the end of the stage the 1st place rider had opened a 1 minute and 38 second gap, riding the best 'time trial' of his life.  In the 17th stage the second pace rider cracked on the final 17 mile climb to the finish line, and lost another 4 minutes to the leader, so the outcome of this year's edition of Le Tour i

has all but been decided.  There's really no way the 2nd place rider can overcome an almost 6 minute deficit in the remaining stages.

By the way, a couple of the new throw rugs TLE ordered arrived.....

In front of the shower door

....love the golf themed shower rug!

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