Mother Nature on full display Tuesday.....

 5:39 am - Wednesday - July 30th - LPG&RVR - 54° F, humidity 43%, wind 2 mph out of the east by southeast....cloudy today with a forecast high of 84° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were in Long Beach, WA.....

....which is on the Olympic Peninsula, and reputed to be the 'World's Longest Beach', although I believe someplace in Southeast Asia makes the same claim.  Again, one of those 'bucket list' items.

Tuesday began slowly, but by the end of the day we had rented 15 golf carts.  After staging the first 10 golf carts  headed down to the storage area where customers park their RV's (we only charge $1/day for storage) until they return to LPG&RVR later in the summer.  I have noticed a lot of 'Russian Thistle' (when they mature they become wind blown 'tumble weeds') growing along a 200' stretch of the storage area.  Since we had another unbusy day I decided to pull all of those weeds, and make it look nice again....

No more Russian Thistle

.....I ended up over filling a 55 gallon trash can with it....I would say I pulled about 70 gallons worth of 'Russian Thistle' just in that one 200' spot.  I also filled one of our small trailers with another 40 gallons I pulled from around a Juniper tree within the park....that stuff is insidious.

I don't spend as much time driving around the golf course as I did the last three seasons, but I decided to make a run late morning, and was glad I did.  I came across this beautiful bald eagle on top of a local telephone pole......

....and then as I passed through the tee boxes for hole #3 I saw this enormous turkey buzzard.....

.....I wish I could have gotten a picture of 'him' in flight as his wing span was close to 8 feet....amazing!

Later in the morning I hauled 12 five gallon buckets of gravel to fill in a sort of pothole in the Clubhouse parking lot that seemed to always have standing water.  Again, one of those tasks awaiting an unbusy day like Tuesday.

The rest of the day involved giving TLE her lunch break, and then washing returning golf carts.  As the day developed I began to get warnings on my phone of severe thunderstorms heading our way, and sure enough, within 15 minutes of me getting back to the Newell it began to rain.....HARD!  Then the hail and thunder came.....

We haven't had water pooling like that since we got here in late April

.....the rain became so heavy I could not hear music I had playing on my Bluetooth speaker.  TLE took a few pictures of the area around the Clubhouse to illustrate hoe much hail we got.  It was still raining pretty hard when it was time for me to retrieve TLE from work, so I had to drive the VW over to get her.  Making that run in the golf cart would have resulted in both of us being soaked.

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