Dumpster diving....

 5:39 am - Friday - August 8th - LPG&RVR  - 48° F, humidity 31%, wind ZERO mph out of the east by northeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 88° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were hiking in Glacier National Park....

.....near MacDonald Lake....this is MacDonald Falls.

After two days of weeding my lower back was beginning to bark at me, but, thankfully, there would be no more weeding Thursday.  I hadn't done any mowing this four day cycle yet, so it was time.  To begin the day I staged three of the Club Car electrics, and then the four round nose Club Car gassers.  Neither had been run in a number of days, so it was time to give them some exercise.  

When I arrived at the Clubhouse just before 7:30 am there were five Yamaha gassers left over from Wednesday to wash, so I took care of them.  While I was washing them Dennis (the owner) showed me some new dumpster lids he had acquired from the local Waste Management to install on the dumpster by the group firepit.  The current lids were just about coming off the hinge, so it was time to replace them.  I love jobs like this, and was happy to get the assignment.  There is a long, cylindrical rod which runs through holes at the rear of the lids, and that is what they pivot upon when being open and closed.  Before I could even get that rod out I had to straighten two big bends, one at each end, caused by years of use and abuse, which took me the better part of an hour.  Once those bends were straightened using a hand sledge, and a pair of Vice-Grips, I was able to install the new lids in about 10 minutes.....

New lids installed

The end of the metal rod with a new cotter pin installed

.....by this time it was after 10 am, and time to begin mowing.  I would only be able to mow for an hour as at 11 am I would need to clear the near side of the driving range of golf balls for its twice weekly mowing before giving TLE her lunch break.  I managed to get the grass up the hill at in the residential area, and the Night Office before 11 am, and then spent the next hour clearing the range.

TLE's lunch break was pretty busy for me with a number of golfers going out, plus ice, food and beverage purchases.  After lunch I began mowing the parking lot grass, then transitioned up to the small gazebo grass, and finally the 10 pull through sites before it was time to begin washing/stowing the returned golf carts.  I finished around 3:15 pm, then headed home to shower, and change into my street clothes so I could head into Alturas for my monthly haircut appointment at 4 pm.  It takes about 25 minutes to get to town, so I was in the VW by 3:30 pm, arriving at Kaleidescope at 3:55 pm.  I was in the chair getting my haircut a few minutes later, and back in the VW by 4:15 pm.  My phone rang when I was about 1/2 way home, but it was an unknown number so I let it go to voicemail.  I wish I had answered it as it was Full Throttle in Alturas calling to say my chainsaw was serviced, and ready for pickup.  Anyway I didn't get the message until I was home, so I'll have to pick it up when we return from SoCal.

I headed right over to the Clubhouse to find that all but two of the golf carts had been returned.  In all we rented 15 golf carts Thursday, continuing an upward trend over past few days.  The RV park will be pretty full this weekend, and we should be emptying out the cart shack both Saturday and Sunday.

TLE was home by 5:2o pm, and we now have just 1 day left in our four day work cycle, then it's off to SoCal.  Sharon texted us that she will be admitted to the hospital at 12:30 am Friday morning to be 'induced', and we are hoping the baby will come sometime Friday.

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