'Hump Night'......

 5:42 am - Monday - July 14th - LPG&RVR - 63° F, humidity 28%, wind ZERO mph out of the south by southeast.....mostly cloudy today with a forecast high of 99° F.  On this date in 2020 TLE and I were in Harlowton, MT.....

......at a city owned campground with my good friend Claude Banker and his soon to be wife, Gail.  This was during the summer of the Wuhan Flu.  Life in rural America was pretty normal for us that summer.

If I thought Saturday was hot, Sunday was even hotter topping out at 99° F around 3:58 pm according to our WiFi connected digital picture frame......

....and our analog temperature gauge on the 'lido deck'....

.....but I get ahead of myself.

You know it is hot here at LPG&RVR when you can get in your golf cart at 5:20 am in the morning in shorts and a t-shirt without wearing a jacket.  I did that this morning (Monday) when I went down to turn off the 3/4 turn gate valve what was flooding our back-in sites since 10 am Sunday.  As is our workday custom TLE and I were in the golf cart Sunday morning heading for work around 7:25 am.

To begin the day I only staged 10 golf carts, and we ended up renting 13.  After staging the carts, I washed the carts that came back after 3:30 pm Saturday, then headed down to the 'Night Office' to run 4 moveable sprinklers for most of the day.   Around 10 am I turned on the irrigation water to water the 10 back-in sites, and 10 tent sites.  I knew it would not be a busy day and wondered how I would keep busy, so I decided to do a deep cleaning of the forest on either side of the driving range, then headed over to the 'Shop' to retrieve three more boxes of range balls to supplement what we already have.  It's been a couple of years since I have added to our supply, and it appears we have permanently lost a lot of range balls over that period of time.  We still have 7, or 8 boxes of balls that have never been used. 

I used quite a bit of our sand/seed supply Saturday to refill the sand bottles on our golf carts which we provide for customers to fill in their divots on the golf course.  Anyway, it was time to refill the sand/seed bunker so I took care of that, too.  Slow days like Sunday are the days to do these types of jobs.

By 3:30 pm there were still 4 golf carts on the course, but it was time for me to head for the cool confines of the Newell for the balance of the afternoon.  For the first time this summer I actually took a long, cool shower, and by the time I exited the shower I was feeling much better.  I watched the end of Stage 9 of Le Tour, then headed back to to the Clubhouse to retrieve TLE for the day.  Two days down, and two to go.  We'll have another 99+ day Monday, then it should drop to the low 90's by Tuesday, our final work day in this cycle.  TLE and I call the evening separating the first two days of our work cycle from the final two days 'Hump Night'.  In a 5 day work cycle Wednesday is usually called 'Hump Day', right?

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