Wash, rinse, dry....repeat

 5:50 am - Monday - July 1st - LPG&RVR - 48° F, humidity 71%, wind zero mph out of the northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 84° F.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were riding the Mickelson Trail in South Dakota near Hill City with Rich and Marnie Aaron.....

Wash, rinse, dry....repeat.  Sunday marked the beginning of another week here at LPG&RVR.  We're kind of in a familiar cycle here as we near the half way point in our third 6 month summer season living on a golf course. The days seem to pass so quickly when we are working, but seem to slow down on our four day weekends.  That we have almost been here 3 months, though is kind of startling.  The weather, once again, Sunday was delightful.  You could still feel the coolness in the early afternoon air.  If only the temps could just remain the low 80's the rest of the summer, but it is not to be.  Beginning this coming Friday we are entering an BIG heatwave.  The forecast temp will be 99° F, then be 100 or higher for the next 5-6 days, then drop slowly into the high 90's for another week.  They always say summer begins with the 4th of July weekend here in Northeastern California, and this year there is no doubt that is true.

Being a Sunday there is normally no use of any motorized equipment, but since both Pavilions were being vacated Sunday I needed to mow them both as soon as the current occupants left, and that was before 10 am.  It took me less than 30 minutes to mow the grass, then I was back to 'marshaling' around the course.  There was also more irrigation being done throughout the day.  I manually turned on the sprinklers for the large grass area next to site #30 for about 4 hours in advance of the coming heatwave.

On my first round of the course I took time at the tee boxes for hole #15 to take a few pictures....it was such a beautiful day....

The freshly raked sand trap at hole #15

A man his dog, and golf

.....I raked all four sand traps Sunday, which is my habit.  In all I made 6, or 7 passes around the course.  We rented just 11 carts Sunday, and by 3:30 pm they had all been returned, washed, and put away in the cart shack.  As the temps rise people will be teeing off earlier and earlier, and finishing earlier.  I will begin going to work at 6:30, or 7 am beginning next Sunday when it will hit 102° F (at least that is what the weather guessers are telling us).

I was home by 3:40 pm, taking a hot shower, then sitting in my recliner watching the 2nd stage of Le Tour de France......yes, it is that time of year again....wash, rinse, dry.....repeat.

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