Writing checks......

 5:45 am - Tuesday - September 10th - LPG&RVR - 48° F, humidity 50%, wind 3 mph out of the south by southeast......partly cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 85° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were overnighting at a Walmart in Rock Springs, WY.....have overnighted there several times over the past 12 years.....

....taken across the street from where the Newell was parked, at a local Starbucks during a rain shower.

Sunrise is now around 6:40 am, and sunset is now at 7:18 pm....the days, they be gettin' shorter rapidly.  As I sit here at my Microsoft Surface laptop at 5:55 am composing my latest missive it is pitch black out side.....still 45 minutes from sunrise.  Six weeks ago I would have been seeing the sun over the Warner Mountains to the east already.

With advancing age healing comes more slowly, and deliberately, and that is the case with my summer cold.  When I began taking the ZICAM 10 days ago I was sure I would be over this cold in days, but here I am still blowing my nose.  I do feel much better, my energy levels are increasing, and I'm sleeping great at night.  It is what it is.  My 75th birthday is just a few weeks away now.  That is a number I was sure I would never see.  I remember a line from a 60's Who song, My Generation, where the lyricist writes "I hope I die before I get old"....when you're 17 years old you never think you're going to get old.  It is just an abstract concept then.  Then, one day, you wake up and you are old.....at least I'm pretty sure 75 qualifies as old these days.  I guess the key here is that maybe I'm old in body, but I'm still young in my mind.  Unfortunately, my mind keeps writing checks my body can no longer cash.....lol.

We rented 14 golf carts Monday, which surprised me a little, but that is good for the golf course.  My biggest issue as marshal these days is getting our customers to keep their carts on the green grass.  These are gas golf carts with hot mufflers and tail pipes, and we don't want them starting a fire by driving through tall, dry grass looking for an errant shot, but they keep doing that, and I must keep reminding them that they do not want to be 'the guy' who starts a fire here.

Being a Monday I was able to do some mowing utilizing the 2 bag Husqvarna.  Between 10 am and noon I managed to mow the 3 large grass areas in the permanent resident section up the hill, the large grass area around the small pavilion, the large grass area next to site #30, and 14 of the 15 pull through RV sites....not a bad two hour stretch.  After lunch I marshaled, with occasional washing and stowing of returned golf carts, as well as did some hand watering of dry spots in the various lawns around the park.  By 3:30 pm all but 2 of the 14 carts had returned, so I called it a day, and headed for home.

I received notice from Starlink Monday afternoon that our new system has been delivered to FedEx, and will be delivered to us Tuesday afternoon...again, not bad service.  As I conclude this missive I can see the sky lightening over the Warner Mountains with the actual sunrise still 30 minutes away.

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