Surprise, surprise!

 6:04 am - Sunday - May 4th - LPG&RVR - 40° F, humidity 76%, wind 9 mph out of the north by northwest.....windy, cloudy today with a forecast high of 57° F.  On this date in 2020, early in the Wuhan Flu debacle, TLE and I were in Flagstaff at Black Bart's RV Park with Glenn and Laureen visiting with our niece Christina Wilson (daughter of Charles and Phyllis) who lived there at the time....

....we had just escaped the heat of Wittmann, AZ where we spent a few weeks working on Glenn and Laureen's 1984 Newell.

TLE and I were on the job at 7:30 am Saturday.  I knew I had 6 Yamaha golf carts left over from Friday to wash, and when I arrived at the Cart Return area I discovered this surprise....

.....someone had crashed one of our carts (#77) and did not report the accident.  I'm not sure what they thought would happen, or not happen when we discovered the damage, but we do know who rents each cart.  I took the above pictures and sent them to Jose Madrigal, the Manager, and within 30 minutes he was onsite inspecting the cart with Bob Longacre (our mechanic).  While they inspected the cart, I got on with washing the other 5, and staging 10 golf carts.  We expected to rent at least 14 carts Saturday, but the weather forecast was for thunder showers beginning at 2, or 3 pm, so you never know.

Once the first 10 carts were staged I began to check out the two Stihl string trimmers we used for weed whacking here at LPG&RVR to be sure they would start after their winter hiatus, and they did.  Bob puts Stabil in them at the end of each season, so they usually start without much issue.  There is a lot of string trimming to do after all the mowing Dave did the other day, so it was up to me to begin to make a dent in that backlog.  I began with the area between the Practice Putting green, and the Clubhouse deck, then moved over to the large grass area in the parking lot, then up to the small and large Gazebo's.  Once that was done I hopped on the 2 bag Husqvarna riding lawnmower and headed up the hill to mow the three large grass areas in the residential area.  As I finished the third lawn I checked my watch to find that it was 11:45 am, and almost time for TLE's lunch break.

I always enjoy that hour that separates the morning and afternoon manual labor, and soon I was back outside cleaning returning carts, and dodging rain drops....the rain came a little earlier than expected.  I had barely put away the carts I had cleaned when the skies opened up for about 45 minutes, so I took a break on the deck of the Clubhouse until this first storm cell passed.  When 3:30 pm came I still had two golf carts out of the course, so I headed for home to change, and return for the weekly putting contest.....

.....we had 27 putters signed up for the contest as we sat under threatening skies.  I actually made it out of the first round, and was tied going to the 5th and final hole of the second round, but made a bad first putt, and missed my second putt.  I did better than I expected after not putting for almost 7 months, but a little more practice will help me do better next week.

It rained on and off during the putting contest, and it ended with rain pouring down on the final two contestants.  A part of me was glad that was not me out there getting soaked.....lol!  TLE and I were home drying off after a wet drive home around 5:30 pm.  I had turned on the heaters about 30 minutes earlier when I had run down the hill to flip the sign, so we arrived to a warm, and cozy Newell interior.  Three days down, and one to go before our first 4 day weekend in a long time!

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