5:54 am - Friday - June 19th - LPG&RVR - 63° F, humidity 52%, cloud cover 79%, wind 9 mph out of the west by northwest.....cloudy skies this morning with a forecast high of 77° F. On this date in 2017 TLE and I were taking our first tour of Yellowstone National Park.....
....here we are near the Roosevelt Arch at the North Entrance to YNP.
Our first day of our four day work 'week' was hot, hot, hot! The forecast high was 91° F, but it got closer to 96° F. I'm barely getting used to temps in the high 80's on work days, and I was not ready for 96° F physically, or mentally. There weren't many folks signed up for golf Thursday, and ultimately we rented 13 carts. After staging the first 10 I headed out to the driving range to clear it of range balls.....Monday's and Thursday's we mow the driving range. Usually I don't clear it that early (9:30 am), but it was going to be hot, and I wanted to be done well before lunch time. In all I garnered about 2.5 gallons of balls, which is not much, but I was able to clear the range in about 45 minutes....nice!
After that I had planned to mow the employee sites, and I eventually did, but Claude needed help repairing his Husqvarna string trimmer. Three of the screws which attach a plastic guard to the bottom of the motor had stripped out the holes in the aluminum casting so they needed to be re-tapped. I have both metric and SAE tap and die kits. The screws being used are metric, but the holes into which they are inserted were virtually threadless, so we needed to use a larger tap to rethread the holes, meaning we needed slightly larger screws. We found some suitable screws (SAE) matched them to the proper tap (12/24's), then rethreaded the holes. The new, larger diameter SAE screws worked perfectly. We used a little Loctite on the screws to keep them from vibrating loose again. In all it took about 35 minutes to effect the repair, but we were successful.
Claude was going to trim around the employee sites so I could mow, but since his trimmer was out of use for a few hours to allow the Loctite to dry sufficiently, I used another trimmer to get the job done finishing just a few minutes before TLE's lunch break. Right now she is beginning her lunch break at 11:30 am each day, and returning at 1 pm....that give me 2.5 hours to get everything done in the afternoon which needs doing. First up was to mow the employee sites, which I finished in about 30 minutes, then it was time to begin washing/stowing the 13 carts we had rented. There were 8 to begin with, and as I continued washing and stowing the rest arrived.
I was moving pretty slowly due to the heat, and taking frequent water breaks to get out of the sun. By the time I finished stowing the final cart I was beat, and it was 3:30 pm, so I headed for home to take a coolish shower before retiring to my recliner for a nap before returning to the Clubhouse at 5 pm to pickup TLE. As I write this morning I am still feeling the effects of the heat on Thursday, bur delighting in the fact that today the temp will only be 77° F.
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