7:15 am - Friday - July 17th - LPG&RVR - 59° F, humidity 15%, cloud cover 1%, wind 13 mph out of the southwest....mostly clear skies today with a forecast high of 93° F. On this date in 2015 I rode my bicycle to the top of Mt. Rubidoux......
.....in Riverside, CA. We were in town for the wedding of my brother Philip's daughter, Danielle; she and Miguel have been married 11 years now and have two kids....man, I'm getting old!
After the very unbusy Wednesday (only four carts rented) we got back to normal Thursday renting 20 golf carts; that's more like it. After staging the first 11 carts I headed back to the hedges which separate the parking lot from the Clubhouse/Cart Shack to finish trimming the final four. The hedge trimmer we use is cordless, and the battery is only good for two hedges at a time, so I trimmed the first two (of the day), then put the battery back on the charger so I could finish the final two hedges before lunch. While the battery was charging I hauled the clippings from the first two hedges to the burn pile.
Upon my return I staged more golf carts, then retrieved the now recharged battery to finish trimming the final two hedges. They turned out quite well....
....after raking up the cuttings from the final two hedges I hauled them to the burn pile, then headed out to the driving range to clear what few balls had been hit since Monday. In all I collected a little less than one 5 gallon bucket of balls in about 50 minutes....
....which I was able to wash, and pour back into the 55 gallon trash can in the Clubhouse closet before TLE's lunch break. It was then time to give TLE her lunch 90 minute lunch break. I sent out one twosome for 18 holes, and answered a bunch of phone calls before TLE returned.
Just a few of the 20 gold carts had been returned by 1:30 pm so I retrieved the 2 bag Husqvarna riding lawnmower and headed over to the four employee lawns to mow them. Claude had, graciously, agreed to trim around all four sites before I mowed, so when I arrived I was able to mow all four of them without getting off the lawnmower one time....
....so our lawns are mowed, and looking great for the weekend, which will be a busy one sports wise. 'The Open' (British Open) began Thursday, there is the ongoing Le Tour de France, and the FIFA World Cup final on Sunday. Looking forward to a nice, relaxing weekend before returning to work on Monday.
By 2:45 pm only 12 of the 20 rented carts had returned, so I took off about 40 minutes, and returned around 3:25 pm to wash four more carts before calling it a day. I don't like to leave carts for Steve to wash, but he will inherit the final four carts Friday morning. By the time I headed home it was getting close to 4 pm, and with that the heat of the day. Time for some air conditioning, a shower and a nap!
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