Three tiring work days

July 11 - Back to work!  Nothing exciting going on!  I have found .79 so far during my hard

At least the golf cart is fun!

working efforts to make this the cleanest campground in the state!  There are 3 things that should be banned from campgrounds:  cigarettes and the jerks that can’t find an ash tray and juice boxes with cellophane covered straws!  Guess you can tell I see a lot of those items on the ground.  Since we are not nearly full it was a good time to try and clean all of the open sites.  It was hard and tiring, and luckily not so hot out, but I got them all done.  Bill was on the riding mower in the morning and in the afternoon he was getting some real exercise pushing a mower along the edge of the lake.  He was a tired puppy but it was good for him!

During our break I wanted to drop 2 packages off at the post office so googled what was close and when I arrived it was a Meijer’s store.  From the truck I called in and made sure and they said I can drop off packages at Customer Service.  So I quickly too them in and there’s a Wendy’s in the parking lot so I got us each a Frosty.  It’s not 5 minutes from the campground so that’s nice to know. 

July 12 – We spent our morning cleaning the bathhouse and 5 cabins.  The inside of the cabins isn’t bad but sometimes the outside has lots of tiny trash!  It was brisk out this morning and we experienced our high of 82 this evening at 8.  Strange!

On break today I wrote some postcards, took a short nap and did a load of laundry.  Then I sat out and read a while til I fell asleep in my chair.  We did our duty til 9 and were both pretty zonked when we got home. 

July 13 – Jean asked us to clean the bathrooms at 8 then take off and come back in around 10.  We ended up needing 1:15 to clean the bathhouse, the Cadillac and the 3 portalets.  So we went back in at 10:15.  Found out we missed the action last night.  A 17 year old girl was in one of the cabins with her boyfriend and the boyfriend’s parents and siblings and the girl got in a fight with the guy and it got physical and the owners called the police.  The group was 2 hours from home and the girl’s parents refused to come get her and the parents here didn’t want to be responsible for another outbreak so the police took her to a shelter for the night.  The ordeal didn’t end until 2 AM.  We felt bad for the owners being up half the night! 

This is a cacida that just exited it's cocoon

I was cleaning cabins this morning and was hoping to find something out of whack that the owner could justify holding some or part of their deposit for the inconvenience but it was left in good condition and nothing broken or missing.  I did the cabins and 2 sites while Bill finished mowing and weed eating around the rest of the lake.  It sure looks nice now with no high grass along the edge. 

Up close and personal

The other host couple made bbq for sandwiches for everyone’s lunch and that was nice.  Then we took our afternoon long break.   We decided to get our grocery shopping out of the way and also had a short list for the campground that I offered to get, so we went to Meijers, just 2.5 miles away.  We have been collecting cans, glass and plastic bottles as the Wal-marts and Meijers have recycle areas.  You hand feed each bottle or can and if it’s not acceptable it rejects.  We had not idea how much it paid but we had one bag of mostly beer cans and 6-8 glass bottles.  It prints out a ticket that you use against your purchase.  We were quite pleased and surprised that we ended up with $12 in credit.  We now will continue to gather cans if they’re not all nasty mixed in with food stuff.

They had a good produce sale on and some clearance that Bill took advantage of.  It’s not laid out at all like Wal-mart so I was all over the place trying to locate stuff.  We may go to Sam’s on Sunday or Monday to replenish our meat supply.

On the way home we stopped at Wendy’s for an afternoon snack of Frosty and only had about 45 minutes until work time.

We’ve been battling water leakage from somewhere in the RV, so I took the face off the water heater cabinet and discovered the leak from the hot water line to the sink faucet.  Thought if Bill didn’t use that sink  the leak might stop, but no!  I called a mobile RV guy and left a message but didn’t hear back from him.  We put fans on the carpet again and another facing inside the cabinet and a towel where the water was pooling.  Will see if I hear from the guy or have to figure something out.

The evening was busy for check-in’s, over 40 but we mostly delivered wood to sites and kept check on the bathrooms.  Glad it is not our days to clean on Saturday and Sunday! 

The other hosts also ordered in pizzas and fried shrimp to share with all of us as well as one couple who are seasonal that he helps out a lot with major fix it jobs.  Not being a pizza person I passed on that and had 5-6 shrimp.  Bill enjoyed the pizza and even liked the shrimp.  Bill thanked them and said next time it was our turn to provide the food.  Not sure what that’s going to be????

Again we were bushed when our day was over!  At least we didn’t have to worry about a meal, but I did make some popcorn that we shared, me with wine and Bill with water!  Nothing much on TV so we both read until we couldn’t last any longer!

Oh, and I only found 1 penny today, so my total so far is $1.10.