Showing posts with label Santa Ysabel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santa Ysabel. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Let's shed some light......

6:55 am - Wednesday - May 8th - Ramona, CA - 53° F, 88% humidity, wind 3 mph out of the east by southeast.......cloudy today with a forecast high of 65° F......the view this morning.......↴

No rain today

When I got out of bed at 6:30 am I could tell it had been raining for a while.....not hard....more of a drizzle.  Since I have a traditionally outdoor type of job here at RORVR* the first thought which comes to mind is "What am I going to be able to do today?"....a good question, right?  Like most campgrounds in which I have worked the tool shed is kind of a mess here.  I had been wanting to straighten it up so tools where easier to find, so one of my first thoughts was to spend time on this rainy day doing just that.

First things first, though.  Since Rich and Marnie were off work Tuesday I needed to check the water tower to see if it needed filling, then open up the storage yard, the Clubhouse, and the pool before finding something to do for the day.  As I headed up the hill I passed Rich and Marnie heading down to the office.  He started talking about what I would be doing since it was raining and then suggested I spend time in the tool shed organizing things better......perfect....just what I wanted to do! And so that is what I did for the rest of the day (with a 30 minute lunch break, of course).

The work bench was covered with tools, washers, nuts, bolts, screws of the wood and sheet metal variety, and a little trash.  There is 'pegboard' on the wall above the workbench where some tools where hung, but it was all disorganized, and in many cases you had to move one tool out of the way to get at another.  My first task was to redo that, and see if I could get more of the hand tools laying on the workbench onto the peg board.  It took about 90 minutes, but pretty soon I had rearranged the tools on the pegboard and was able to get 95% of the tools off the workbench.  Once that was done it was just a matter of separating out all of the fasteners into various categories, then putting them away in a wall hung screw organizer.

I then turned my attention to the opposite side of the room where the garden tools where are stored (shovels, rakes, pick axes, pry bars, brooms, etc.).  They were all standing on the floor leaning against the wall in no particular order, and it was quite difficult to tell what was what, or what we had.  First off I began to hang as many of them on the wall as I could, and then organized the remaining ones by type.....all the square point shovels together, the regular shovels together, the brooms, etc.  Initially I only thought we had one square point shovel, but we had 4.  I thought we only had one push broom, but we actually had 3, and on it went.  The final thing to do was to vacuum the top of the workbench, and then the floor, and by the time I finished with that it was almost 4 pm and time to put another workday into the books.

The days seem to pass by pretty quickly here at RORVR*, and on Thursday we will have been here 2 weeks already.  We're both settling into our jobs, and enjoying the people we work with each day.  We appreciate our managers, Rich and Marnie, and they seem to appreciate us and the job we are doing.   I personally love the variety of things I get to do here....no two days are exactly alike.  Last summer most of each workday was proscribed by specific, repetitive tasks.....restock the wood box, clean sites, pick up and deliver trash to the transfer station, clean the bathrooms between 12 and 2 pm.  The only time I had in which to do anything different was after 3 pm each day, and even that was not really different.  The only difference each day was the location in the campground in which I was doing weed abatement with the Stihl string trimmer.

We spent the evening (after closing the pool, Clubhouse and storage yard) watching recorded TV programs, and were in bed a little after 10 pm.....thanks for stopping by!

*RORVR = Ramona Oaks RV Resort

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Monday, May 6, 2019

A nice, lazy day.....

6:53 am - Monday - May 6th - Ramona, CA - 55° F, 83% humidity, wind - CALM......cloudy with a chance of rain today and a forecast high of 62° F.....the view this morning.....↴


Sunday was a day off work for us as I wrote yesterday.  I needed a haircut in the worst way, and there just happens to be a Supercuts in Ramona.  TLE had heard that Don's Market in Santa Ysabel (about 10 miles east on SR-78) had a good meat market, plus a farmer's market, so we headed first to Santa Ysabel (Ē-sabell) to check both of them out.   We left home around 12:15 pm and were in Santa Ysabel within 20 minutes.  As it turned out the farmer's market was a little short of sellers.....most of the booths there were selling flowers, so we decided not to stop and go directly to Don's Market.....


.....Santa Ysabel lies at the intersection of SR-78 and SR-79.  In the background is the original country store built back in 1878......hang a right here and you arrive at Don's Market.....↴


.....they do, indeed, have a good meat market, and TLE scooped up a couple of filet mignons to grill, some bacon, and a few other items.  In addition to Don's Market there is Julian Pie Company, Dudley's Bakery, and Apple Country Restaurant.  From there we headed 15 miles back to Ramona, and Supercuts.  While I went in to get my ears lowered, TLE went into State Bros. to get a few items.  I had no reservation, and expected to have to wait a while, but sometimes you get lucky.....when I entered Supercuts there was no one getting a haircut, so I was able to sit right down.  Within 5 minutes every chair was filled again!  Just about the time my haircut was finished TLE arrived and we were on our way back home.

By this time I was ready for a nap, and that is what I did.  We watched a couple of recorded English Premier soccer matches over the course of the afternoon, and I spent a little time doing stuff in the garage (trailer).  By 5:30 pm the Sea-B-Que was lit, and by 6 pm we had two medium rare filet mignons with a side of asparagus topped with hollandaise sauce.....yum!

Back to work on Monday for three days, and then I am off for about 5 days to have my cataract surgery.....thanks for stopping by!

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