Fall/winter? I think not......

 6:23 am - Saturday - October 21st - GNHS - 70° F, humidity 54%, wind 3 mph out of the west.....crystal clear, blue, sunny, HOT skies today with a forecast high of 101° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were attending the wedding of our son, Tim, to the love of his life, Laila, in Riverside, CA at the Mission Inn.....I really like this candid photo of TLE and I......↴ 

Friday, our first day of work here at GNHS this 'fall/winter', and I use the term 'fall/winter' advisedly as the temperature topped out at 101° F.  Summer lingers long at 140' below sea level.  It is not far from where we are that the highest recorded air temperature in recorded world history was recorded....Furnace Creek, Death Valley, CA......134° F.....July 10, 1913.

We reported for work at 7:30 am thinking there was a rental, or two going out at 8 am, but we all got it wrong....the rentals are scheduled for next Friday.....lol.  Actually that was good news as the COA (Colorado Outback Adventures) office was total chaos, and the area outside was not much better, so a day without rentals was just what we needed.  We met Hunter, a 20 something young man, who has been assembling the RZR's.  He works for COA up in Durango, CO during summer where the temperatures rarely exceed 90° F.

While he continued the work on the RZR assembly I got out my ladder and moved the Starlink 'dishy' from the ground in front of the office to the top of the office roof to get it out of the way, and give it a better view of the northern sky.  While I was thus occupied TLE was inside the air conditioned office with Bob (owner) setting up the computers, printers, scanners, etc.....

The next RZR to be built by Hunter

The office is looking much better now

....we worked until it got close to 100° F, which was around 11:15 am.  We took a 1/2 hour break, then took three of the new RZRs out for a break in drive....

We took these 3 on the break in drive out to the Bat Caves

....even though it was over 100° F by the time we headed out the breeze at 50 mph does not feel as hot....lol......

.....we drove, first, to the Bat Caves, then to the 'Oasis', then up to the 'Canal' trail doing a nice 30 mile loop in less than 2 hours, arriving back at the office a little before 2 pm.  By the time we returned it was, indeed, 101° F, and we were done for the day.....all of us....lol!  We took cool showers, and spent the afternoon inside the cool confines of the air conditioned Newell.  By the way, both of our A/C's continue to perform flawlessly at almost 42 years of age.

We had a typical GNHS sunset, and then it was time for me to move a couple of RZRs into position to prevent campers from taking a short cut through our parking lot at all hours of the night.  Since it is so hot right now most of the campers are riding at night, and some don't return until the wee hours of the morning....some as late as 3 am.....

RZRs blocking the short cut

....when I went to bed around 9:30 pm the outside temp was still 90° F, so we turned off the bedroom A/C, and turned on the salon A/C to keep it as comfortable as possible while we slept.

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