Our last visitors for the year!!

 Tuesday 27 July 2021

   Just as our luck goes last night  the weather turned nice with cool evenings and low humidity so we turned off the A/C and opened up the windows.  Diane was opening the window by her side of the bed and I hear a small bang(small window) I look over and she is holding the top of the window frame in her hand, no window attached and the window fell shut.  Another item to the list of things to do.  Ah, the list gets a little longer.
   This morning was nice I took advantage and hit the water for a little kayaking trip.  Very clam and only a few boats.  I paddled across the lake and up along the south side shore line.  Very relaxing mid morning ride there were a few fishing boats but only one buzzing by me.  I made it back just over a hour paddling almost non stop.  A good workout.  We had a coffee and tried to figure out what the propane smell was in the kitchen.  Turns out we were out of propane.  Diane went to get propane and to the deli for supplies for our up coming shift on Thursday.  I mowed around the volunteer sites and finished weed whacking by the horse shoe pit.
   She called Kate and made arrangement for us to have diner with her at Schiffty's  in Westfield around 6.  We just had wings and talked.  Poor Kate is cleaning up the house and personal stuff from Tony's passing.  We feel for her and offer our support the best we know how.  The wings were good and we talked for more than 2 hours.  Almost 9pm until we made it home.  I forgot to feed Rudy before we left and he was not a happy dog but he got over it once I filled his dish.  That's it for today.

Wednesday 28 July 2021

   Not much going on today.  Diane headed to Wellsboro for everything.  I think she had 6 or 7 stops to make it took her half the day.  I stayed here and did some site clean up.   Another whole day without rain.

There was a bird nest in the glove box of the Gator.  I walked in to the maintenance shed and the nest is sitting on the hay bales, the eggs had hatched and Andrea didn't think it should be in the gator when we used it for work.  I wasn't sure they would even hatch.  

Thursday 29 July 2021

    I guess the fishing will have to wait awhile.  I had this brilliant idea to buy a cheap boat use it a year or so and sell it, great plan.  But as great ideas go(especially mine) it didn't work out according to my plan.  I brought it home last week and ordered the part it needed and of course it didn't fit.  Returned it, ordered another ( the right part) and it arrived in record time.  All excited I headed to the marine repair shop in town to get it fixed up.....Today they called with the bad news....It can't be fixed. I can still use the boat with the trolling motor but that's it.  I always wanted a boat...until now.
   We worked today and the luck continued.  It started to rain just as we got into the buggy for the first round and it rained steady the whole time we were out.  After two hour getting in and out, tagging and cleaning sites we were soaked.  Got back to the Moho parked the Kubota and the rain quit as we walked inside.  Just our luck.  Another inch of rain in two hours.
   Things did pick up then.  Dave and Julie showed up we stopped by said high and they came down for burgers on the grill and Julie brought cauliflower potato salad.  Don't roll your eyes it was good.  We ate, sat by the fire and of course had a glass(or more) of wine and called it a night.

Friday 30 July 2021

   What a crazy day.   It started off good enough we had breakfast with Dave and Julie (eggs & scrapple) then we headed out on rounds.  It was busy with over 50 sites checking in and 15 checking out.  The first pass took about 2 hours and we were back for lunch.  After lunch I worked on site clean up and poor Diane started a day long shift of question, complaints and problems.  I was the lucky one as it turned out I quit at 4pm showered and walked Rudy up to visit with Dave and Julie we had hobo chicken. It was very good.  Diane stopped for a quick bite around 5:30 then headed back out.  I came down around 7pm Diane was dealing with campers until after 9pm,  dog bite, site screw ups and trying to make reservation for someone.  She finally came in as I was getting ready for bed.  What a day. 

Saturday 31 July 2021

   Woke up to a really nice day cool but sunny.  We swapped work days with Kathy so we could spend a day with Dave and Julie.  Up to Julie's for breakfast again, they are going to spoil us for sure.  We took a little break after breakfast then headed over to a local winery for a tasting.  We spent two plus hours, first the tasting then a glass of wine  and we sat out by the creek.  Took the back way home just a beautiful day for a drive.  Back to the Moho and another short break then back up to Dave's for dinner  (steaks and grilled vegies) with a few glasses of wine of course.  We sat by the fire, talked and had a great evening.

A fun time for us and the Metzger's at the local winery
'Shutter Homes'

                            

Sunday 1 August 2021 

   The morning started great, sunshine and cool.  We started the fire and had breakfast underway by the time Dave and Julie showed up for breakfast(sausage and eggs).  We all ate and sat by the fire until almost 11am.  They headed back up the hill and we packed up the buggy and started out for first trip around the campground.  We are trying to get a head start before the storms roll in again this afternoon.  We stopped to say goodbye to Dave and Julie and finished up the round just as the thunder storms hit.  We did about 80% of the sites but we hunkered down until the storm passed.  We had another 1/2 inch of rain.  The ground just started to dry out after two whole days without rain. Diane finished up the sites just before diner.  Time for some wine.