3 down, one to go....

 5:37 am - Wednesday - July 23rd - LPG&RVR - 49° F, humidity 35%, wind 1 mph out of the south by southeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 87° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were overnighting in the parking lot of the Visitors Center.....

....parking lot at the St. Mary's entrance to Glacier National Park, which was another 'bucket list' place to visit.

We actually rented 12 golf carts Tuesday, most of them before lunch time.  It was, compared to 10 days ago, a coolish kind of day, and really a great day for golfing, but with the park about 50% occupied right now, that is about the best for which we could hope.  Once I had enough golf carts staged to handle the expected demand I began washing the three 5 gallon buckets of balls I had gleaned from the driving range Monday finishing that task within an hour.

As you recall I began string trimming around the back-in sites (11-20) Monday, so I headed back there to finish the final 6 sites, then up the hill to the residential area to trim around those sites before mowing them.  Once that was done I retrieved the 2 bag Husqvarna to mow them.  By the time I was done mowing it was time for TLE's lunch break.  Once she returns from lunch each day I have just 2.5 hours left in my work day, which always goes by quickly.

I haven't been out on the golf course since the last time I mowed around my tee boxes, and that was almost 8 days ago, so what better way to wind down the last 2.5 hours than spending 90 minutes doing just that.  As I was returning to the Clubhouse on the cart path from hole 18 I decided to mow site #20, which I had just trimmed hours earlier, then up the hill to mow the employee sites, and then for good measure I mowed around the large gazebo, which had just been vacated.  By the time I was back at the Clubhouse it was 3 pm, and I had 9 golf carts needing their daily spa treatment.  By the time I finished washing and stowing them it was 3:30 pm, and time to head for home with just one more day left in our four day  work cycle.

I spent the balance of the afternoon watching the end of Stage 16 of Le Tour, which I had begun watching that morning before heading to work.  Once again Tadej Pogacar staved off the multiple attempts by Jonas Vinegaard, and his cycling team (Jumbo Visma), to dispossess him of the yellow jersey, but in the end Tadej added two more seconds to his already substantial lead ending the Stage with a 4 minute 15 second overall lead.

Summer time is quickly slipping into the rearview mirror, and within a week we will be entering the month of August with just 60 days remaining before we head back south to Northern Arizona and 'The Wilson Wilderness'.

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