Air quality.....

5:49 am - Saturday - August 10th - LPG&RVR - 56° F, humidity 57%, wind 1 mph out of the southeast.......the return of smokey skies today with a forecast high of 91° F.  On this date in 2016 TLE and I rode our bicycles to Getaway Cafe, one of our favorite South Lake Tahoe breakfast haunts back in the day.....

I was up at 5:15 am Friday to turn off the pond water valve which I had opened Thursday afternoon to irrigate the back in sites, and tent sites.  The water had reached all the way down to tent site #10 overnight....perfect!

The park began to fill once again Thursday  afternoon, and by Friday morning there were probably 25 RVs with people ready to play golf.  I initially staged 8 golf carts, and by the end of the day we had rented 14....much, much better than earlier in the week.  On my first pass around the course I raked one sand trap, #4, and found ZERO goose/duck leavings.  I've been giving the 'leavings' report for so long this year, that I still feel compelled to keep reporting my findings each day I work, but I think this will be the last time I mention it this summer.  If anything changes you'll be the first to know....lol.

With most of the major work done this 4 day shift I had less to do Friday than normal, but I still needed to turn on the irrigation for the trees, and mow around the tee boxes for which I am responsible, so around 9:30 am I headed out to do those things.  It takes me around 70 minutes to complete my mowing circuit of the course, so I was back at the Clubhouse by 10:40 am.  I still needed to take care of the grass trimming down in the back in sites after mowing them on Thursday, so I retrieved one of our Stihl string trimmers, and knocked that out in about 20 minutes.  

I didn't have time Thursday when I was clearing balls off the driving range, to go into the woods on either side to check for errant balls, so I spent about 50 minutes doing that Friday morning, and actually found more balls out there there (1/2 a 5 gallon bucket), than I did on the driving range Thursday (1/3 of a 5 gallon bucket).  By the time I had them soaking it was time for TLE's lunch break, and my brief, daily interlude in the cool confines of the Clubhouse.

It is always a shock to the system to head back outside at 1 pm, and feel the wall of heat which has intensified during the 60 minutes I was out of it.  I put on my marshaling hat and took a spin around the course.  Each pass around the course takes me about 30 minutes, and at least I can generate a little breeze to cool me down.  By the time I returned there were 6 golf carts awaiting my attention so I took care of them, then set a few of our individual sprinklers to water dry areas of grass down at the Night Registration office, and the grass in the parking lot.

By the time the end of my shift arrived all but one cart had been returned, washed, and stowed in the cart shack.  The air quality Friday was much better than Thursday.....

.....this was the view from the 15th hole at 2:15 pm.  

I returned to the Clubhouse around 4:55 pm to give TLE a ride home, and the last cart out had still not returned, so I'll have it to wash first thing Saturday before I stage carts for the annual Rich Hamel Tournament.  If you remember, Rich Hamel was the Pitt River Valley rancher who began building this golf course back in the early 90's....

The man with the vision, Rich Hamel

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