Diaries

74 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning when I left for the gym.

Joyce picked me up around 10:15 for a Blue Ridge Parkway clean up day. We start at the Parkway entrance off 21 about 4 miles south of my house to check for litter. We then headed north today driving out the Virginia line. There is an overlook just short of the line on the northbound side we stopped to do cleanup there. Then at the line we turned around and slowly traveled south. Joyce has signs on the car indicating we are doing Friends of Parkway cleanup. We slowly cruised south looking for trash; mostly Styrofoam cups, plastic bags, beer cans/bottles, and soda cans.

At the mile markers we scrubbed them with a wire brush. While Joyce painted the numbers to brighten them up I walked on up both sides of the road picking up trash. Shen would then catch up with me to ride and stop for trash until we reached the next mile marker.

Thankfully it was in the upper 70’s  to low 80’s with a breeze but it was still hot in the sun. We stopped at 1 for a short snack break at one of the overlooks but otherwise spent roughly 5 hours doing litter pickup and painting.

68 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning at 6 am.

Today was the Wellness Center annual golf tournament. I had to be at the course by 6:30 to help set up and get the morning teams registered to tee off at 8. I left at 9 to come home and let Colin out then went back to the course to get ready for the afternoon groups to tee off at 1.

Once they were on the course we started breaking down the tables and getting stuff packed up to go back to the gym. I finished up helping with that then headed for home around 3.

It clouded up off and on all day but overall we had a fairly good breeze with temperatures in the mid 80’s. I think it is the first year since I have been helping we did not have afternoon storms interrupt play.

74  degree, partly cloudy, and breezy when I left for the gym this morning. I also worked my midday shift this afternoon.

The raccoon has been caught. We have been placing the trap on the sidewalk beside the house feeder. When I checked this morning the trap was laying about 15 feet in the yard on its side with the raccoon in there. There was one scratched up place where he rolled the trap from the sidewalk into the yard the first time and tried to dig out of it. He rolled it again another five feet but I guess gave up and just tried to dig out from that spot. I guess he had been able to get out of the other feeder but this one kept him in there. I would have liked to see him rolling that cage and trying to get free.

I called TC then took Colin out on a leash to keep him from going over to the trap. Hopefully no more raccoon problems for awhile.