Getting Broken In

Today was the first work day at Big Creek RV Park. We met at the office for training on the Campground Master software this morning. We spent about an hour talking to Craig and Patty about all kinds of things but barely got around to training. We were told it's very simple, here's the icon on the computer, you won't have any problems and so on.  Once we decided the actual running of the park's business wouldn't be any trouble we headed for the clubhouse to clean it and get ready for a group of 60 folks that were coming in today and tomorrow.

Clubroom prep seems to be the same no matter where we go. Sweep the floor, set up tables and get the chairs out of the store room. While we getting all this stuff done Diane thought it would be a good idea to clean the refrigerator since it hadn't been used in several months. She was having a problem taking out a glass shelf to clean the underside. I suggested that she remove the whole shelf assembly to make it easier to clean. Unfortunately as soon as she got it out it slipped in her hands and the glass shelf was turned into about 10,000 small pieces! This made cleaning the rest of the shelf much easier, and allows much easier access to the vegetable bins in the bottom!

The rest of the morning was spent burning trash (Diane) and painting spot numbers on power pedestals (Mark). Patty went to town for supplies for Saturday's big marshmallow roast and hayride. As soon as she left people started to arrive. Remember the ease of the computer software? Not really true. We  finally took the couple to their spot and asked them to come back later to pay. The next customer wanted propane but we didn't get around to that training just yet, please come back later. The third customer just pulled in the rear entrance since he had been here before. He was the easiest one of all, we just kind of ignored him.

The last thing to do today was to install the hand rail to get into the pool. It seems unnecessary but when we went to put the rail in the two campers that had come in earlier jumped in the pool. It really has been a warm spring!

Nothing so simple as running an RV park for a couple of hours to make you realize all that Telco training just wasn't worth much in the real world!!!

Now for the pictures:

The south end of the park.

Our house, we are right in front of the office so that we are available to tell folks we don't know what to do, but please come back to the office later.

Butch scouting the creek for fish.

Retired But Still Working (Sort Of)

This has been our first winter home in the past seven years.  We're very happy that it was an almost perfect winter, weather-wise.  I think the lows only got below freezing 2 days.  We won't be pressing our luck again next year. 

In November and December, we worked for See's Candies in the Galleria.  This was our first adventure into retail sales and found out we really did enjoy it for the seven weeks.  We're looking forward to working this coming season again for Jim and Linda.

We managed to golf in January, February, and March and spent a lot of time cleaning out the house.  All but one closet has been cleaned out.  We used our See's earnings to buy lots of new furniture for the house.  It was time! 

The best part of our winter was spending lots of time with our grandson, Matthew.

This week we started our new workamping gig at Big Creek RV Park in Annapolis, MO.  We wanted to be close to home so we could still see our families and cut our own grass since Dennis relocated to Tulsa in February.  We met the couple that owns the park at the RV Show in February and talked up our workamping skills.  They called in February and asked if we could come for a visit.  We immediately fell in love with them and the park. 

Tuesday morning we loaded up the car and truck and drove the short 105 mile trip to start our summer camping.  While we haven't actually started working yet (probably tomorrow), we've had lots of time to explore.

Big Creek runs behind the park and there are a couple of walking trails that go alongside it.  Butch loves walking down there.

The bad thing is, I've already pulled a couple of ticks off him.  That's the downside of a fabulous winter, no bugs froze!

Today we had to go shopping in Piedmont since we forgot a few items when we stocked the trailer.  The Walmart is a very old, very small store, but they had most of what we wanted.  I really need fresh fruit, but haven't found any yet. 

Hopefully Patty (the owner) will have something for us to do tomorrow.