Start of New Season

With all of the various rates for the different seasons and sites, today begins the off season here at the campground. For the next 9 months, the rates will be lower. Even more important, the number of people staying here will diminish, with mostly the "summer program" people, comprised primarily of the Cubans from Miami that were mentioned previously in an earlier post. The big impact today will be a mass exodus of the winter, seasonal people. There are 132 spaces scheduled to depart today. It will be interesting to watch the caravan leaving the park, and also the traffic going north to the mainland. Some of the (smart) people left early yesterday, but most will be on the road today.

The rain came last night - .17" - with an increase in the wind to about 20 mph. The weather we had though was nothing like the bad storms that went through southern Fl the last 2 days. We were having clear, sunny weather while the state, from Orlando south to Miami, was getting heavy thunderstorms with a few tornadoes spotted.

Work was still the same, frustrating environment. I am concerned that if we don't get our codes and paperwork completed today, we will not have them by payday next Wednesday. The corporate offices will be closed Sat-Sun, and we are off on Mon-Tue. I can't imagine how they can cut checks to us without the withholding information. We will find out.

The real news though is that we are leaving next Thursday to go to a job outside of Birmingham, AL. It is a great place to work and we both will be working in the maintenance group, handling outside chores such as grass cutting, site cleaning and cleaning the rest rooms. We start on Monday, the 11th, and are committed until Labor Day.

APRIL FOOLS!!!