The nature of things.....

 7:07 am - Thursday - July 24th - LPG&RVR - 60° F, humidity 33%, wind 2 mph out of the north....partly cloudy skies today with a forecast high of 87° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were relaxing in our RV site at Yellowstone National Park.....

.....the RV park at which we were staying was right on the Yellowstone River in Gardiner, MT.

We have a 'Nature Trail' here at LPG&RVR, and it is actually quite a nice trail which is hiked by many people every summer.  There are 9 'points of interest' along the trail, and every couple of years the number on posts at each of the sites must be refreshed.  I did it back in 2023, and it was time to do it again.  The trail is a little over a mile long, and has a number of places with benches where you can sit and enjoy nature....

One of the numerous ponds on the property.  This one is near the 12th hole

Jose's Point (#7) with a view of the 9th and 18th fairways

.....after staging 10 carts I drove over to the beginning of the 'Nature Trail', parked and began the 1+ mile loop hike to replace the numbers (9 in all).  I had forgotten how scenic the trail is, and really enjoyed spending the better part of an hour walking from one point of interest to the next.

Bob, our cart mechanic, has been working for the past three days to revive Club Car Villager #15, which has been in pieces for about a year.  It is a four seater that is normally used by workampers.  A little over a year ago the primary clutch failed, and Bob spent the rest of the summer trying to remove it as it was stuck fast to the drive shaft.  Whoever installed the original clutch did not employ 'anti-seize', which made its removal very challenging.  At any rate, Bob finally had to remove the engine from the cart to more easily access the clutch, and was finally able to remove the faulty clutch shortly after we left last October.  The new parts finally arrived a few weeks ago, so Bob was able to reassemble it.  When I returned from my 'Nature Trail' hike he had just put the wheels back on the cart to take a test drive.  The test drive was successful, and after 14 months it is now back in service....

......and with that repair there are only 2, or 3 golf carts left to get back into service.

After finishing the 'Nature Trail' work I hopped on the 2 bag Husqvarna and headed down to mow the very large grass area which surrounds the 'Night Office'.  I had done all the string trimming a few days ago in preparation for mowing it Wednesday.  From there I headed to the 10 back-in sites, which I had previously trimmed, to mow them, then over to the grass area next to the restrooms, and then finished off by mowing 5 pull through sites.  By the time I finished it was time for TLE's lunch break.

The afternoon went quickly, and soon it was 3:30 pm, and time to begin another 'four day weekend'.  I picked up TLE shortly after 5 pm, and another 8 day cycle was in the books.  Our next 8 day cycle will take us to August 4th.

Thanks for stopping by!