Our first week of Work (ha ha)

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Larry and Sue had Host duty, so we got to run around and check things out.  We found a few more stores for shopping, with the Ace Hardware being Brad's favorite.  Monday was a nice day, but the rest of the week we had rain, rain and more rain.  We have been watching the reservoir and every day the water level continues to rise.  South Bay (the other CG here) has a site or two that are flooded, but we only have one where the water is getting close to the fire pit....not bad.  The ducks and geese eggs are hatching, but the little ones don't seem to survive all that well, we understand there are a lot of foxes around that tend to get them.  We do have 2 geese families that have been hanging around all week, but the ducks seemed to have disappeared.  It is still too cool, damp and wet to do much exploring.  Actually a lot of the hiking and biking trails were closed all week due to the rainy weather, too muddy to be safe for hiking, so we have been hiding out inside or at the stores. 

 

Thursday morning Larry was over at 7:00, dropping of the work computer/CC machine and radio, we are now on duty.  Thursday is a pretty slow day, not many people scheduled to show up, but we did have two walk-ins (just stop in looking for a site) and I managed to do the computer work and run the CC with no problems.  We also had a lot of people stopping in with questions....surprisingly we were able to answer them.  We have a golf cart so we spent the day picking up trash and checking all the sites, getting ready for the mad rush on Friday. 

 

Friday morning the Rangers dropped off our post tags, of  the 54 site we have here, we had 48 tags to put out, and that took almost an hour.  After that, back home, have lunch and wait for the crowds to show up.  It is asked that we do at least 3 trips around the CG a day and as people check in, flip their tags showing they have arrived, not a tough one, at least until the tags get wet.  You are allowed to have 2 campers per site for an additional $10.00 a night, we had just one of those to check in, the rest were just simple tag flipping and meeting the campers.  We had rain early in the day, but about 4:30

Goose Family

the rain cleared out and the campers had a great night.  Brad did the last round while I cleaned up after dinner.  We settled in for a quiet evening, but 2 or 3 knocks at the door we were fearing a busy night, but at 10:30, lights out and a peaceful night for all. 

 

This morning Brad and Rudy did a walk around the CG while I slowly rousted myself out of bed.  Not bad, it actually was a beautiful, sunny morning and no rain to be seen.   Brad made breakfast on the grill and about 10:30 we headed out with the new post tags (only 3 today).  We talked with a couple of the campers and noticed 1 that was supposed to leave hadn't even started packing up yet....we'll have to stop back.  Back to the Moho, then about 11:30, back to see if they left...oops they were just getting back from breakfast and would be out by noon......ok.  We had a quick lunch, but did our next round about 2:00, but not until Brad had to fuss at someone for not keeping their dog on a leash.  It wouldn't have been so bad, but she was walking through our campsite with him.  After that we headed for our second round of the day, then home again and we went for a nice long walk with Rudy.  This time we got back to the Moho just in time for the rain to blow in.  Rudy and I hid inside, but Brad got to field a question or two, and by then the rain had quit, but the temp dropped.  It's now a little below 60 degrees and the dampness just goes through you....I guess we'll survive.  Tomorrow is our last day for this stint, so I'll keep you posted....hopefully no troubles. 

Brad and Diane