Sunday, May 22, 2011

A Taste of the Busy Season

We can tell that it's going to be a lot different here, beginning next weekend. Already, we have most of the seasonal people here this weekend, plus the overnight camping area is much more occupied than before. The security shift involved monitoring more "party" sites than before and I know that the Memorial Weekend will be a circus. Fortunately, there will be a sheriff's deputy on duty for Fri-Sun nights to help out. There will be days, I'm sure, that we wished we were still in the winter "lull" season.

There was some time yesterday morning before we started our shifts to get some work done outside to our site. We opened our second awning for the first time since we arrived, and I locked it down pretty good with straps so it shouldn't be damaged by winds. The site is almost to the point that we can enjoy the nice days of summer outside:


The only thing left to do is to get a flower pot (Josie's department) to place outside, and perhaps move the patio platform back, closer to the rear of the rig. It is nice to have a little extra room outside.

My schedule has me off until Wednesday, since I worked until 2 AM this morning. Josie has to go in at 1 PM today and work till 6 PM, so we can't really go anywhere today except for local travel. I purchased some reading glasses at Walmart the last time we went and one of them needs to be returned, so I guess that will take care of the rest of the time this morning. Summer is on the way as it was almost 80 yesterday and it was a cool 62 last night. Our first electric bill arrived and it is $41 for the time we have been here so far. That's with very little use of the air conditioner which obviously will pick up very soon. So far. it's not bad at all.

The last thing I wanted to mention was how disappointed I was - along with millions of others - that the Kentucky Derby winner (Animal Kingdom) did not win the second leg of the triple crown yesterday ( he finished 2nd, 3/4 lengths back) in the Preakness at the Pimlico race track in Baltimore. He is still the best horse this year, in my opinion. It's too bad we didn't have the time off as that could have been a nice trip for us to Baltimore to watch the race. There will be other occasions...

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