5:38 am - Saturday - August 30th - LPG&RVR - 51° F, humidity 33%, wind 2 mph out of the east......sunny today with a forecast high of 89° F. On this date in 2015 TLE and I had just arrived at Cape Blanco Lighthouse.....
....just north of Port Orford on the southern Oregon Coast to be docents for the month of September. This was our second year in a row. One of our favorite volunteer jobs ever.
When our four day work schedule has us working Friday through Monday it's kind of like two busy work days sandwiched around two light work days (Saturday and Sunday). We don't do any mowing, or trimming on Saturdays, or Sundays, so whatever needs those skills must be done on Friday and Monday. Saturdays and Sundays are relaxing days most often filled with staging a lot of golf carts, hand watering of dry areas of grass, and then washing/stowing those same golf carts. On the later, we've had so much rain this summer that the grass areas are as green as I have seen them this late in August.
There was only one golf cart at the wash station when I arrived at work Frida morning, and all of the other carts were stowed in the cart shed. That's a first this month. We've had so many people playing late rounds of golf every day that there are almost always 5-6 carts (sometimes 12-14) needing a spa treatment first thing each morning. I checked the tee time sheet and based on that felt we would need 20-22 carts, and we actually rented 22. By the end of the day there were still 5 carts outstanding (back to normal).
Dave left me about 12 gallons of range balls to clean, and dry before pouring them back into the 55 gallon barrel in the Clubhouse, so I took care of them after staging the first 10 carts of the day. That took me up to 10 am when it was time for me to begin to mow. I began with the parking lot grass, then up the hill to mow the residential lawns, then out on the golf course to mow around those tee boxes for which I am responsible. I returned from that foray around 11:55 am, just in time for TLE's lunch break. That 90 minutes saw me answer 3 phone calls, and that was it. I spent most of my time talking with customers passing thought the Clubhouse for one thing, or another.
The final two hours of my 8 hour shift passed quickly as I washed and stowed 17 of the returned golf carts, and that was it for the day, or so I thought. I was home just before 3:30 pm. I did get a call from TLE around 4:15 pm that our Club Car #26 had stalled at the 7th hole, so I drove out there to see what was what, only to find that they had gotten the cart moving again, so I told them to drive it back to the Clubhouse without stopping, and exchange it for another so they could finish their round. I was back home just after 4:40 pm with only 20 minutes to take a shower, and return to the Clubhouse to pickup TLE. Quite often when I arrive at 5 pm TLE says she has around 10-15 minutes of 'closing' rituals to complete, so I run down and flip the sign, then post the availability for those arriving after 5 pm with no reservations. Usually by the time I return to the Clubhouse TLE is ready for her ride home, and that was the case Friday. And thus went the day of our 54th wedding anniversary.
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