5:56 am - Tuesday - September 15th - LPG&RVR - 40° F, humidity 29%, cloud cover 5%, wind 13 mph out of the south by southwest......clear, blue skies today with a forecast high of 79° F. On this date in 2020 TLE had just arrived at our home for the next 12 months.....
....Seal Rocks RV Cove. Our employee site was on the hill behind the office (foreground), and this was our view, and was separated from the rest of the campground. One of the best workamping jobs ever.....great place to live for the next 12 months.
For the second consecutive day it got down to freezing overnight, and we were met with frost on the putting green as we arrived at 7:30 am for our first of four work days. Due to the frost there was a 90 minute frost delay for those wishing to play a around of golf. As a result our first golfers did not tee off until 9:30 am. There were six carts left over from Sunday for me to wash, but it was too cold to take care of that until closer to 9:30 am. I initially staged 4 carts for the 9:30 am folks, and then later an additional 12 carts. By 3:30 pm 8 of them were still outstanding.
I spent time repairing the hose on the air compressor in the 'Caddy Shack'. It had developed a leak last Wednesday (my last work day), and I had to cut off about 4 feet of the hose, and reattach the shortened hose so I could blow grass off the two Husqvarna mowing decks, and didn't have time to splice the four feet back to the hose that day. In the interim I found a coupling to splice the two pieces, and was able to restore the full length of hose.
Next up I was able to repair the right front wheel of the 2 bag Husqvarna with two new bushings. As you will recall I discovered the bushing on the outside of the wheel had broken, and I didn't think we had any other bushings, so I borrowed the right front wheel from the defunct John Deere mower which had two good bushings. As it turns out we do have four of those bushings, so using a chisel I pounded out the remains of the old bushing, and pressed in the new one. While I was at it I replaced the inside bushing as well, since it had worn unevenly for a period of time before I discovered the problem with the outside bushing. It was actually a pretty straightforward repair. By that time it was almost 12 noon, so I put away my tools, and headed inside to give TLE her 90 minute lunch break.
The office was pretty busy during that time with phone calls to answer, and customers to check into the RV park, so the 90 minutes passed by quickly. Soon I was back outside washing and stowing golf carts. I made one pass around the golf course since our Marshal (Claude) is off Monday through Wednesdays. All was well, and folks were obeying the rules. By the time I returned it was almost 3 pm, and there were a few more carts to wash and stow, so I took care of them, closed up the 'Caddy Shack', and was home by 3:30 pm.
As of this writing (Tuesday morning around 6:22 am) we have just 10 more early mornings left, and 12 more days off work, plus another 5 months after that of no early mornings until we return for our 6th season here at LPG&RVR.
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