Busy Weekend Ends

It seems like the weekends keep getting busier and busier even though they are not holidays. I mentioned the athletic group that was here over the weekend. Actually, they were the Desert Vista High School boy's cross country team from Phoenix. They have won the state 5A championship for 4 of the last 5 years. It was such a great group of teenage boys. They occupied most of our cabins and you hardly knew they were there. They worked out most of the day and played ball on the Ramada ball field and held meetings in the Ramada the rest of the time. Today they all go home.

Even with the manager talking to several of the parents in the campground about their kids' riding the ATV's without helmets and just joyriding, there still are a few that ignore the rules. He says that the rules will be enforced totally from now on. We hope so. It is still a ticking time bomb with the violators.

Josie has been filling in on the housekeeping side by cleaning the cabins and doing the cabins laundry. She is starting to feel the pain in her hands again the way she felt it in the flower shop. That's not a good thing. She is again wearing the soft brace on her hand and she is talking about seeing a doctor to get a shot. The best solution is to stop the heavy cleaning in the cabins and get back to her normal duties in the lodge. Of course, that depends on the management finding some other help somewhere to help out with the cabins. We hope it happens soon.

Yesterday's weather extremes were 83 high and 54 low. It was the fourth straight day with no measurable rain even though there were storms all around us. We keep hearing about heavy storms from people driving through them to get here from the Valley. Maybe the staff member was right that said we were situated on a point on the Mogollon Rim that causes the storms to go around Happy Jack.

Two more days to our "weekend". We will be back on our regular schedule this week - as far as we know. They haven't published the schedule yet which is unusual.

Later...