5:48 am - Saturday - August 24th - LPG&RVR - 48° F, humidity 77%, wind 7 mph out of the south by southwest.....heavy cloud cover, raining today with a forecast high of 57° F....COLD, COLD, COLD! On this date in 2012 TLE and I snagged the last available site at the Port of Arlington Marina on the Columbia River in eastern Oregon.....
Friday was one of the coldest days we've had in almost 7 weeks, and for the first time in that time span I wore pants, a long sleeved shirt, gloves, and a winter jacket to work. Also, for the first time in that time same span I took a cup of hot coffee to work in my YETI coffee cup. I took the jacket off for maybe 30 minutes around 11 am whilst I was weeding, but had to put it on again when I finished as it was just too cold without it. To begin the first of 4 work days I staged 8 golf carts, and we ended up renting 14 before the day was done.
With the weekend fast approaching I had a lot of mowing to get done, and by the end of the day had mowed the 3 large lawns in the residential area, the parking lot grass, the grass area next to site #30, the group fire pit area, the tee boxes at the 3rd hole (the grass at the other tee boxes I take care of hadn't grown enough to justify mowing), and 5 of the pull through sites....the rest were occupied. I also did some more weeding down in the gravel pull sites, and those sites are now 99.9% weed free for the first time this summer.
By the time I went home at 3:30 pm all but 10 of the 14 carts had returned, been washed, and stowed. I returned around 4:50 pm to putt while TLE closed the office, then we headed down to the entrance together to flip the sign, and post availability for those arriving after 5 pm. The forecast for Saturday is for rain until early afternoon, so not sure what I will be doing. It is raining as I write. But, alas, this two day cold spell is just a brief interlude. Temperatures will return to the mid to high 80's by Wednesday.
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