Fall/winter? I think not......

 6:23 am - Saturday - October 21st - GNHS - 70° F, humidity 54%, wind 3 mph out of the west.....crystal clear, blue, sunny, HOT skies today with a forecast high of 101° F.  On this date in 2017 TLE and I were attending the wedding of our son, Tim, to the love of his life, Laila, in Riverside, CA at the Mission Inn.....I really like this candid photo of TLE and I......↴ 

Friday, our first day of work here at GNHS this 'fall/winter', and I use the term 'fall/winter' advisedly as the temperature topped out at 101° F.  Summer lingers long at 140' below sea level.  It is not far from where we are that the highest recorded air temperature in recorded world history was recorded....Furnace Creek, Death Valley, CA......134° F.....July 10, 1913.

We reported for work at 7:30 am thinking there was a rental, or two going out at 8 am, but we all got it wrong....the rentals are scheduled for next Friday.....lol.  Actually that was good news as the COA (Colorado Outback Adventures) office was total chaos, and the area outside was not much better, so a day without rentals was just what we needed.  We met Hunter, a 20 something young man, who has been assembling the RZR's.  He works for COA up in Durango, CO during summer where the temperatures rarely exceed 90° F.

While he continued the work on the RZR assembly I got out my ladder and moved the Starlink 'dishy' from the ground in front of the office to the top of the office roof to get it out of the way, and give it a better view of the northern sky.  While I was thus occupied TLE was inside the air conditioned office with Bob (owner) setting up the computers, printers, scanners, etc.....

The next RZR to be built by Hunter

The office is looking much better now

....we worked until it got close to 100° F, which was around 11:15 am.  We took a 1/2 hour break, then took three of the new RZRs out for a break in drive....

We took these 3 on the break in drive out to the Bat Caves

....even though it was over 100° F by the time we headed out the breeze at 50 mph does not feel as hot....lol......

.....we drove, first, to the Bat Caves, then to the 'Oasis', then up to the 'Canal' trail doing a nice 30 mile loop in less than 2 hours, arriving back at the office a little before 2 pm.  By the time we returned it was, indeed, 101° F, and we were done for the day.....all of us....lol!  We took cool showers, and spent the afternoon inside the cool confines of the air conditioned Newell.  By the way, both of our A/C's continue to perform flawlessly at almost 42 years of age.

We had a typical GNHS sunset, and then it was time for me to move a couple of RZRs into position to prevent campers from taking a short cut through our parking lot at all hours of the night.  Since it is so hot right now most of the campers are riding at night, and some don't return until the wee hours of the morning....some as late as 3 am.....

RZRs blocking the short cut

....when I went to bed around 9:30 pm the outside temp was still 90° F, so we turned off the bedroom A/C, and turned on the salon A/C to keep it as comfortable as possible while we slept.

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Acceptance.....

5:30 am - Thursday - July 27th - LPG&RVR - 52° F, humidity 62%, wind 2 mph out of the south by southeast.....skies are forecast to be crystal clear, blue, sunny skies with a high of 88° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were visiting the Hoh Rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula near Forks, WA....TLE in front of the Hoh River, and moi in front of a 200' Sitka Spruce.......↴ 

Once again I find my self in arrears....having NOT published a blog post about Tuesday, so I'm up extra earlier to do just that, and be to work on time at 6:30 am.

In addition to finding myself adjusting to the warmer temperatures more easily this year, I am also adjusting to the mosquitoes more easily this year.  Make no doubt, they are still there, but I'm more able to accept them as part of life than I was last year.  Part of my adjustment is just simply dressing to reflect the conditions.  When I'm clearing balls on the driving range, or spending extended periods of time out on the golf course I wear long sleeve shirts, and pants, and apply an adequate amount of mosquito repellant.  Last year I resisted, insisting on short sleeve shirts, short pants, and as little repellant as possible, which did not work, and made those parts of my job unpleasant....not so this year.

We sent out fewer than 15 golf carts Tuesday, and after staging the initial 10, and making my rounds of the golf course I spent the balance of my morning mowing the tent sites which is always a very dusty proposition, and involves the use of the very slow John Deere riding lawnmower.  By the time I returned to the Clubhouse at a brisk 2.5 mph just before 12 pm I, and the 'still life' John Deere were covered with thick layer of dust.  I used some compressed air to blow the dust off each of us before heading inside to give TLE her lunch break.

I love the final 90 minutes after TLE's lunch break as the seem to pass by pretty quickly, and being home at 2:30 pm just as the heat of the day descends upon LPG&RVR is sweet  I managed to get all but four of the carts washed and put away before heading locking up the fuel station, and the 'Caddy Shack' and heading for home and a much deserved shower.  In spite of blowing all that dust off my person at lunch time I watched lot of dirt swirling down the shower drain.

I took my usual post work nap, and then returned to the Clubhouse around 5 pm to retrieve TLE and call the end to another LPG&RVR day.  We watched a couple of Women's  FIFA World Cup games played at locations in New Zealand and Australia before heading to slumberland.

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