May 1 - 7, 2010

May 1, 2010, Saturday

Today is the first day of the month and our first day of work this month. We worked today and then have two days off. Looking at our schedule for this month we only have to work twelve days. The new couple Mike & Joann came in earlier than expected so after they’re trained we will be going to our regular work schedule of two working days and four days off. We worked long and hard today which made the day fly by.

May 2, 2010, Sunday

Today was filled with a lot of running around. Went to TGW (the golf warehouse) with another coupon to pick-up more free NIKE golf balls. That makes eight total so far, just by going into the store and handing them a newspaper coupon. Got the car washed for five bucks. We stopped by Arby’s picking up lunch. Did the circuit of stores selling flowers finally buying a couple more hanging baskets to put on our double Sheppard-hook. The yard outside is starting to look real nice. Cut a pie I made (orange pie) giving a couple of pieces to Frank & Sondra; Sheila & Keith and the newbie’s Mike & Joanne. Around 8:30 pm or 9 pm we had a heck of a storm blow in. Weatherman said gust up to 50 to 60 mph. It turned our round table and chairs over. I had to go outside and save our new plants by sticking them under the motor home. Again this was a windy night for us.

May 3, 2010, Monday

Out of bed and out the door to sunshine. All the plants and our stuff outside survived the on-slaughter of the storm. I let Sadie out to take care of business and I picked-up and cleaned up what needed to be taken care of outside. It looks like today is going to be a really nice day weather wise.

May 4, 2010, Tuesday

Today we worked with the new couple. Rhonda was with Joann and I worked with Mike. Mike and I certainly earned our pay today. It took me 13 trips to get all the wood back to the burn pile at the north end of the park. Mike took a chainsaw cutting up limbs that were cut down inside the storage area. I put them in trash can on golf cart transporting them back to north side of park. Our other project today besides the limbs was to fix a sign that has been down for awhile. The sign directs campers to pull their rigs up to a certain point by the office check in. We pulled the poles out of the ground to reset them in concrete. The sign needs to be remounted on a piece of plywood, and then mounted on the poles. We moved a sign stating a 5 mph speed limit and to slow down. There was a lot accomplished today. I’m tired and wore out. Rhonda said she was pooped and just wanted to take it easy. That’s just what we did.

May 5, 2010, Wednesday

Today was a very busy day for Mike and me. We worked on completing the sign, “Campers pull up to here.” We had a false alarm concerning Rocky. It seems he left early to go fishing and Sheila wasn’t aware of it. Although Rocky was missing he did informed Keith, but Keith failed to tell Sheila. Anyway, I tried to open his door to the storage bin he “lives” in with his M/H. I found out I wouldn’t be a very good burglar – I had no luck getting in. Everything turned out okay and we were all relieved after Sheila called Keith and he said Rocky went fishing.

Today was another day when Mike and I really earned our money. We stayed busy doing something all day. We’ve been here almost a month and so far I’m enjoying it very much. At the end of the day Keith stopped by and thanked me for the pie I sent over to them the other night. In fact all three coupes said they enjoyed it very much. It makes me smile and feel good to do something like that. It was another successful day in Wichita.

May 6, 2010, Thursday

Long work day for us today. Rhonda and Joann worked in office and Mike and I worked the outside stuff. Toward end of day, maybe the last three to four hours I worked trying to clear and organize storage bin #6. It’s going to take me a long time to get this done. I believe it will be worth it once I get it completed. We did have a couple arrive today and the gentleman, Jim Campbell asked Rhonda if there was anyone who golfed. She volunteered me which I was happy she did. So we set up a golf date for tomorrow morning. After work we watched our TV show Survivor.

May 7, 2010, Friday

I woke up ready for a full morning of golfing with Jim at a new golf course. Our tee time was 8:45 am. I picked Jim up at 8 am. He loaded his clubs into the back of the car and we headed for McDonalds golf course. Jim is an easy going handsome man probably in his late 50’s. I say easy going because he was so very patient with me on the golf course. He shoots in low 80’s and of course I shoot way above that. He did show me a few things to help me out with my game. We had a really good time and I hope someday to play golf with him again using some of the things he taught me. And the next time I hope to have a better showing on the golf course. I will need to go practice but I feel I can improve my score 5 to 10 shots using what he showed me. When I arrived home Rhonda had to leave and get her haircut and do some errands. While I was golfing, Rhonda fixed a bathroom vent. I appreciated that very much. She took it apart and repaired it, then put it back together.



The other two couples Joann in pink with her husband Mike on her left; Frank & Sondra across the table

John Beddie with USI Park owner Sheila

Later in the evening we had a meeting a rec-hall for the workampers and owners of the park Sheila and Keith. Sheila provided pizza and salad and I made one of Kimmy’s recipes – a chocolate chip cake. So for the meeting we had pizza pie for the main dish and cake for dessert. It was a good meeting. It was fun for all of us and an enjoyable evening for all in attendance.





USI Park owner Keith with Donna Beddie