Turning a corner.....

 8:27 am - Wednesday - September 4th - LPG&RVR - 54° F, humidity 28%, wind 1 mph out of the east.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 90° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I were watching the sun set at Cape Blanco, OR....

Day 4 of our four day work week, and day 3 of my cold.  Both have gone quickly, and now I am sitting here at my laptop enjoying the fact I didn't get up until almost 8 am.  Even though this cold is passing quickly, I still find myself with a lack of energy, while feeling much better than I deserve.  Colds used to torment me for a week, or two in the past, but since I started taking ZICAM at the first sign of symptoms, years ago, the duration has been truncated significantly to just 3, or 4 days.  I'm feeling like I've turned the corner rather quickly with this cold, and that is the best news ever!

Tuesday was the slowest day here at LPG&RVR in sometime with just 6 golf cart rentals.  On my first round of the course I raked all four sand traps, and was back at the Clubhouse in time to begin mowing.  I had a lot of mowing on my plate......the back in sites, all 15 of the pull through sites, both 'buddy' sites, the parking lot grass, and the employee sites.  While I was mowing the back in sites down near the meadow I noticed how dry the grass was getting so after finishing I opened up the quarter turn 4" valve at the base of the pond dam to flood the sites, including all the tent sites.  It was around 11 am when I turned on the water, and it would run all afternoon, and overnight (just turned it off a few minutes ago).  Should be good now for another 10+ days.

By noon time I only had three employee sites and the tee boxes at 3, 15, 16, 17 & 18 left to mow, but first TLE's lunch break.  At 1 pm I began the slog around the course to mow around the aforementioned tee boxes, and was back the employee row by 2:15 pm.  By the time I finished mowing the last 3 employee sites it was 2:40 pm, and time for me to begin washing, and stowing golf carts.  I was home taking a long, hot shower by 3:30 pm.  I sat down in my recliner to take a nap around 4 pm, and didn't wake up until 5 pm....I guess I needed that nap!  I arrived at the Clubhouse just in time to pick up TLE, and head for home to begin our 4 day weekend.

As I write this morning I feel the best I've felt in a few days, and am seeing steady improvement by the hour.  Tomorrow TLE and I drive down to Reno for my 6 week follow up at Great Basin Orthopedics, so that will be a long day.  Otherwise I will be resting...there may be golf on Friday depending on how I feel.  We have one last heatwave (low to mid 90's) passing through the Pitt River Valley, but by next Thursday we'll be back in the 70's for good.  The trees are changing colors much more rapidly this year than last, so fall is definitely upon us.

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