Thursday becomes Friday.....

 7:47 am - Friday - August 1st - LPG&RVR - 59° F, humidity 34%, wind 1 mph out of the east by southeast......mostly clear skies today with a forecast high of 86° F.  On this date in 2018 TLE and I climbed Acadia Mountain (681' elevation).....

Every hike in Acadia National Park began like this

....in Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine, and then took in the view of Somes Sound....

There we were beginning the fourth day of our four day work week (this week Thursday is our 'Friday), and I still had a lot of mowing, and weed whipping to get done before our four day weekend.  I wasn't sure I could get it all done, so I began early with the weed whipping.  Claude met me at the slope below the employee sites around 9 am to knock out the final 40, or 50% of the dead weeds which remained, and by 10 am it was all done....

....we wont' have to deal with that again until next July....lol.

We haven't run our older golf carts much in the last two weeks so I staged four of the 'round nosed' Club Cars, and then, as the need arose, most of our 'square nosed' Club Cars.  These 'square nosed' carts were the original ones LPG&RVR leased back in the late 90's.  Back then they were state of the art, but that was almost 20 years ago.  Anyway, they need to be run to keep them in good working order.  We ended up renting over 10 of our older carts on Thursday.  It was kind of a sneaky busy day.

After Claude and I finished clearing the final weeds off the slope I headed back to pick up the Husqvarna 2 bag mower to mow the 'Night Office' lawn, the parking lot lawn, and then as many of the pull through sites as possible before lunch.  I managed to get four of the five water/electric sites mowed, and nine of the 10 full hookup sites.  I still had 30 minutes before TLE's lunch break so I went back and trimmed all of the grass around the electrical pedestals in those sites.

After lunch I cleared the front half of the driving range of golf balls so DeWayne could mow....the grass in the back half of the range only needs mowing once a week now (Mondays) as the grass doesn't grow as fast out there.  That took me 30 minutes, then it was time to remount the trusty Husqvarna 2 bag mower and head out to the course to mow around tee boxes 3, 15, 16, 17 and 18 (I mowed #10 on Wednesday).  I got a few sprinkles while I was mowing #3, but that was it for the precipitation.  I managed to get back to the Clubhouse just before 3 pm, and was able to wash/stow the 9 golf carts which had been returned before quitting time at 3:30 pm.  That, my friends, was one busy day!

As has been the case the last two weeks, clouds once again began rolling into the Pitt River Valley early afternoon, and by 3:30 pm one could hear thunder in the distance, but it never really rained, however, those heavy clouds caused the temperature to drop quickly to around 75° F; a nice ending to a warmish day.  By warmish I mean it was in the 80's, as it has been most of the last 2 weeks.  Last year at this time we were in the middle of a hot streak with temps in the high 90's and low 100's, with very little rain all summer.

With the arrival of August 1st (today) we now have just 60 days left in our annual sojourn at LPG&RVR, and we have been here just over 3 months.....

.....it won't be long until we need order a 2026 calendar.

Thanks for stopping by!