Doh!

 5:53 am - Wednesday - July 24th - LPG&RVR  - 63° F, humidity 56%, wind 2 mph out of the southeast.....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 95° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were camping along the Yellowstone River in Gardiner, MT.....

The sun is now setting at 8:26 pm, and it regresses about 1 minute per day now.  We'll blink a couple of times and before we know it the sun will be setting before 8 pm.  That's how fast this summer seems to be going.  We're kind of enduring the current heatwave, which seems never ending, but all that being said I'm tolerating the heat much better this summer.  The only time it really bothers me is when I leave the cool confines of the Clubhouse after giving TLE her lunch break.  During that one hour the heat seems to magnify itself 100%.  Knowing I only have 2.5 hours left in my day does help, though.

To begin my day I opened the large gate valve to the pond so we could irrigate the back in sites, plus the tent sites, then staged 12 carts before heading out to make my first round of the course.  I'm cautiously happy to say the goose/duck leavings continue to decline, and I'm beginning to believe I am not being 'punked' by the geese/ducks.  I raked just one of the 4 sand traps, and was back to the Clubhouse by 9 am.

I needed to have the starter belt on my gas powered Club Car Villager #20 tightened, so I left it with Miracle Bob to work his magic, and picked up one of the 'duty' carts to which I attached the small dumping trailer to go around and pickup weeds I had pulled a few days earlier.  By the time I returned Miracle Bob had finished with my cart, so I headed out to make a marshaling round of the course.  As I drove up the 8th fairway I heard something snap, and reflexively took my foot off the gas pedal....that was a mistake.  The snapping sound I heard the the starter belt giving up the ghost.  Once the engine shut off I could not start it again without the starter belt. Had I just kept going I could have driven back to the Clubhouse, but I didn't....doh!

I called Jose whom I had just seen at the Clubhouse, and he picked up one of the 'duty' carts, as well as the tow hitch we use for towing disabled golf carts (it is rarely used), and within 10 minutes he was hitching up Club Car Villager #20 for a return trip to see 'Miracle Bob'.  Once back at the Clubhouse I left the cart to be repaired, then hopped on the 2 bag Husqvarna, and headed down to the tent sites to mow them before the water from the pond made its way down there.  By 11 am I was finished with my mowing for the day, cleaned the Husqvarna using compressed air, refueled it, then headed out to make another marshaling round of the course before TLE's lunch break.

In all we rented 15 golf carts Tuesday, which is not bad for a Tuesday, and had all by 4 of them returned by the time 3:30 pm rolled around.  By then Bob had installed the new starter belt, and I headed for home, and a nice cool shower.  Oh, by the way, Charles and Phyllis arrive around 12:30 pm, and were set up in site #54, right next to us, within an hour.  We headed over after work to spend a couple of hours with them before calling it a day.  They'll be here through the 30th.

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