Work, work, work!

August 23 – Back to the grind!  Only 6 more work days left.  At least we made a grocery stop on the way home yesterday.  We were back on at 8am with bathhouse duty.  The park is pretty empty and there’s not a lot going on.  Bill did some mowing after we did our bathrooms, and I did some site clean up.  Later in the day once a few new guests arrived we did bathroom checks about every hour.  We finished for the day at 10 pm. 

August 24 – Just 5 more work days!  Today was a bit windy out and overcast.  We started out at 8AM and Bill did more mowing while I did some site clean up and cleaned one cabin.  The park is still not full like other weekends and the weather isn’t looking too good so maybe there were some cancellations.  Bill was on pass gate duty tonight and I did the bathrooms about every 90 minutes with my last being 9:45.  Bill and I got home just after 10.

August 25 – 4 more work days!  Up and out at 8 and it was quite chilly this morning and the day really didn’t improve much.  The sun tried really hard to come out but only lasted a short time when it did.  Once we did our morning rounds Bill did a ride around with Jean and she pointed out all the things she wanted him to do.  Most was mowing here, and trimming there.  He took the golf cart so I went down on foot to do the bathhouse and walked back.  He came home for lunch and “wondered” where I was.  Duh!

We did every 2 hours today since it was kinda empty in the campground.  I made gingerbread on one of my breaks and did a load of laundry.  Would have sat out and read but it was too chilly and dismal out for that.

Shaun told Bill we could have all the bottles and cans collected behind the fence for Jean’s nephew.  He said he told Jean he was tired of the smell and the flies all over.  So Bill brought them all home in the big cart and we sorted them.  Jean said to take them today, so on our break we took one load to Meijers and got $29.90.  That’s 299 items to be put in the scanner.  We didn’t think to separate what we had collected on our own so they are in the mix.  We will take the rest on Monday.  We think we have at least another 300!  We didn’t take any plastic today, just glass bottles and aluminum cans.  That makes the recycle money $102.20.

On the way back from Meijers there was a produce self serve stand and we stopped and got some delicious home grown, fresh picked tomatoes.  We had some sliced for dinner with fresh green beans, “instant” mashed potatoes and leftover venison cube steaks.  As we were sitting down to eat the other volunteer couple radioed that there was goulash if we would like some.  I don’t know what got into Bill.  Why he didn’t say we were just sitting down to dinner, but no, he said thank you and left them to believe we’d be up to eat.  I told him I was eating what I made and he said he’d have a bit when we went up. Then while we were cleaning the bathrooms they came by and told him the food was up there waiting and he still led them to believe we’d be up to eat.  So I dropped him off for pass duty and went on to finish the Cadillac and the portolets and Paul came by and said the food is waiting.  I just went ahead and told him the truth.  I said I didn’t know why Bill didn’t tell them we were just sitting down to eat and I was full but maybe Bill plans to come eat. I told him he’s up there now, so maybe he’s eating.   I was perturbed over the whole deal as you don’t wait until 6 to invite someone to eat.  They do that all the time and I plan my meals based on our plans for the day and I think we’re just an afterthought!  Oh well! 

It’s been so long since I found any money I had to look back and see what the magic number was.  I found .03 so now have a grand total of $2.02!