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The temperatures, like much of the west these days, were soaring and it was really too warm to ride bikes or hike anywhere. It reached over 90 degrees here yesterday and that is hot for this area. Josie had laundry to do and I wanted to install the new Cateye bike computer that we got for the bicycle, so we used the morning to complete those activities.

 I did a lot of research and comparison of bike computers and decided on the Cateye Strada Wireless computer, which combined some good features with low cost. The only negatives while reading the reviews were related to installation. The reviews were right-on regarding the difficulty in interpreting the instructions. I was able to get it installed, but it is not working at this point so I need to troubleshoot the problem and try to get it working this morning. Josie, in the meantime, was doing the laundry at a different facility hoping to save time by using larger machines. She met with her own frustration as the machines at this facility used more coins and didn't wash or dry with the same efficiency as the machines that we have at our laundry facility on site at the lodge. So, our activities in the morning didn't go as planned, or as hoped.

I did a couple fish fillets on the grill before going to work and caught this Paraglider coming down from the mountain behind our RV spot:

This was a familiar sight last summer and it has started up again. We will be seeing these paragliders for the rest of the season.

One thing that Josie and I have noticed this year is the difference, for some reason, in the attitudes of some of the guests. There appears to be more "grumpy" guests than last year, and more guests are complaining about little things that we didn't notice last year. There will always be some folks that you can't please, no matter what you do, but there seems to be more of those now. We hope it's just a passing trend, as we enjoy our jobs and like to see people enjoying their vacations...