A Bit of Work Kamping!

We just can't seem to stay away from renovation projects! But it sure beats wasting time sitting in the trailer and, as always, when you have to work, it's always so much more pleasant when you all work together. In the process, Roger proceeded to acquire yet another set of 'grubbies', for if a job is to be well done, you have to get it all over you!

With the weekend looming and the rain over, we spent Friday morning walking the park and helping Dan & Michelle establish a list of priorities they needed to address to meet KOA requirements. That gave the sun time to dry out the grass a bit and Roger put on his 'landscape maintenance' hat and (a bit too eagerly) volunteered to man the Kubota zero turn radius lawn tractor.

Talk about 'boys & their toys' - six hours later, the park looked great - and he managed to only get it stuck three times! The first time he bogged down when mowing around the pond. But with a little help from the nearby back hoe, he was rolling again in no time. Then, later on that afternoon, he appeared back at the trailer (woke me up from my nap!) and said he needed my help. He had got off in another 'boggy' area and we used the yellow truck to get him out and running again. But the 'highlight' of the afternoon was when he was mowing down at the front of the park - near the house - around a huge cedar tree. He hit THE bog! He came and got me and the yellow truck again - and proceeded to get the yellow truck stuck too. We had to call for reinforcements (the back hoe) that pulled both of us out. Roger was feeling really bad - but Dan just laughed it off and said - "I got stuck in that same spot last week! I shoud have warned you!"

By the end of the day Roger had me looking up Kubota lawn mowers on the Internet and I told Dan I had a feeling we might just have a Kubota ZTR in our future - and I was sending him the bill!

Well, so much for 'fast, reliable service' from UPS. Just got a call from the RV repairman - the parts were shipped from the manufacturer on Friday - "second day air" - which should have put them here today - Monday. But, when UPS made their delivery - no parts. A few phone calls later, they found our parts in Columbus, OH, with delivery scheduled for Tuesday! Guess that was 'second day air - times 2'!

So today's 'activity' will be installing the back side of the KOA entrance sign that was delivered Friday afternoon. Thankfully I have cleared our calendar until Thursday. Surely we will be up and running by then. I broke out the crock pot and put some boneless pork chops to cook; headed to the grocery store to get ingredients for some "Okie potatoes" - and we'll have 'dinner on the grounds' this evening for the work crew.