And work begins!!

 Sunday 9 January 2022

     Got up this morning it was already 64 degrees and that was before the sun came out, what a nice morning.  After breakfast we opened the windows to get some fresh air in the old Moho.  We (including Diane) went to the grocery store. Her first-time shopping since we left Dillsburg.  I pulled right up to the door blocking the cross walk and half the road to get her out and into one of those electric carts.  They were old and kind of abused looking, basket dented, rubber bumper was falling off and when you let go of the throttle it stopped so hard that she almost fell off.  But she was in the store and helped pick out the right items. She was happy to be out of the camper and more importantly helping with everyday chores. By the time we returned put away the groceries she was wore out.  It was so nice outside, she took a pain pill and sat outside most of the afternoon. Scott came over to talk about our shift tomorrow and ask if the ranger (Aly) was over to give us access to the computer system. We have not yet met a ranger, but all the volunteers say we start working Monday morning.  We did find out all three other volunteers have paying p/t jobs outside of the park and rearrange the schedule to fit their 'other' jobs.  Oh well enough of that.  Such a nice day we have steak, shrimp and asparagus on the grill, Diane sat out with me until almost dark.  We actually had some asparagus left to eat with the meal.  What a great day.

 Monday 10 January 2022

      Ready or not here we go!  We headed over to the guard shack at 8:30 to meet with Scott and get some training.  Around 9:00 Eric came over as well apparently, he did not go to the funeral in North

No white caps on the 
lake tonight, Beautiful!!

Dakota. Between the two of them we came out half confused and half ready to work.  Aly our ranger called to say she would not be over and hoped we found everything we needed. No computer access, no keys and with a very brief instruction we headed out to work, good news only 4 campers checking in this morning.  Just after lunch a different ranger stopped in (Bailey) with paperwork to sign and a set of keys.  Oh yea we are ready to go. Sometime during the day we got an email to access recreation.gov (the management side), so Diane got in, played around and we had access to the computer system from the Moho.  The best thing that happened today was Rudy's dream came true, he got to ride in the golf cart.  It warmed up nicely this afternoon so Diane and Rudy rode along Diane could put out site tags if I got close enough to the posts. By quitting time (5pm) we were seasoned veterans.  Diane made her famous French Onion chicken dish, yum. We made it through day one.

Tuesday 11 January 2022

   Day two of work and day two of physical therapy.  First was therapy at 8:30am.  We left here at 8am yes we were both dressed and ready to go(almost) at 8am.  We are already in a rut, Diane goes to therapy I go to Lowes, Walgreens and the grocery store pick her up and come home.  We were back around 11 had some lunch, then made rounds on the golf cart only 4 check-ins and Eric put the tickets out so we just rode around and looked important.  I went out to the local dinner and picked up their famous catfish diners they were OK nothing to get excited over.

Wednesday 12 January

   Another therapy day and still no luck getting Diane's prescription filled.  Friday they (Walgreen's) were working on it.  Saturday they called to say it was filled in Dillsburg, we called Rite Aid to have them cancel the prescription, then called Walgreen's back. Stopped in today still not ready.  Good it isn't a life critical drug.  Back to the Moho to do rounds.  No check-ins today so we rode around looking important.  I did some weed whacking around our site especially at the septic hook up area.  On our last round a camper flagged us down and wanted to change sites. Diane work for awhile on the computer and eventually figured out how to do that on the computer, she was so proud.  Just salad with grilled chicken for diner.

Thursday 13 January 2022

  A really nice day with temp's near 70 and sunny most of the day.  First order of business after breakfast

Driving round the lake,
lots to see from other views!!

was dumping the tanks.  Since I weed whacked all around the septic hookup yesterday I noticed as soon as I opened the valves the sewage seeping up out of the ground and running down into the woods.  Well that explained why the grass was so green and so high.  Well, we got in the truck and headed over to the main office about 10 miles down the road stopping for lunch of course first.  We found Stump's Bar and Grill in the town of Sam Rayburn I had shrimp of course and Diane got the small (3) chicken finger basket, I would have ordered the large(6 piece).  You know everything is bigger in Texas and down here a chicken finger is half a breast. So she ended up with 1 1/2 breast and I had to help her with the second one. Wow they were big.  Next over to the office.  I went in and the lady (a volunteer) called several numbers but on one answered.  We could hear people talking but none would answer the phone.  But once I said "hey we have raw sewage running through the park" a maintenance guy was on his way before I got out of the office and was at our site before we got back. Now I know how to get their attention.   After they left we had our first fire here at the Park.

Rudy left us know he wasn't happy sitting on the ground, so Brad had to get is chair out.......made him happy.

Friday 14 January 2022

   The usual trip to therapy except today Walgreen's had her script ready for pick up.  Another nice day, so after lunch we sat outside.  Diane and Rudy sat by the fire while I raked and burned sticks and pine cones. We stayed out all day Diane even walked through the stone and grass to sit by the fire.  It is great to have her getting around a little better and even going into restaurants instead of me doing pick up all the time.  I took the bedding over to wash in the volunteer building, did it all in one load in between loading the fire up with more debris. We got our first Amazon delivery today, it is starting to feel like home.

Diane said last fire for a few days,
I need to let the fire ring cool down!! 😃