Yard Work and Heat

Josie wanted to get a haircut and pick up some flowers to plant in a planter outside, so I used the time yesterday to do the grass. I went to the maintenance barn and picked up a weed eater to do the grass around our rig. It was getting hot outside and I wanted to get the job done as early as possible. As I mentioned before, it really bothers me that we are responsible for cutting our own grass here. Anyway, I finished the job, and within a half hour of completing the job, the Mexicans that work here doing the maintenance came in behind me to do the same thing. That's it! I'm done doing any more yard work here.

The temperature reached 92 yesterday and we ran the A/C all afternoon and into the evening. There were chances of thunderstorms with severe weather warnings just west of our location. The tornadoes this year have been especially deadly and we are closely monitoring the storm tracks on the weather channel. Needless to say, any severe weather could potentially wipe us out if the winds are strong enough. We're glad we are not in the central plains states as they are being battered. It is even dangerous traveling through those areas, so I guess we'll stay put for awhile.

Both of us are scheduled to work today. Josie is on from 8 AM till 1 PM, when I go in and work until 6 PM. We are not happy with the split shift schedule that we have this week and hope that it changes for the weekend and beyond. As near as we can tell, the other workamping couples are scheduled in tandem with each other. Some overlap in schedule is OK with us, but to put in 5 hours of work each and lose the whole day is not OK. We'll see what happens there with the schedule. This is the big weekend for the summer season kickoff, so we expect to be especially busy. Until tomorrow...