Softball game and more repairs.

More repairs…seems to never end.  First we developed another leak in our hot water heater.  This is the same new hot water heater that we had installed last spring in Bowling Green Kentucky.  One of the maintenance men here at the COE park fixed that for us.  Seems the plastic fittings used had worked loose.  Got that done.  Then we had noticed that our air conditioner was giving us a power surge.  Not sure how long it has been like that but we noticed when we were on 30 amp here.  We drove the motorhome up to Richmond last Tuesday and got that fixed.  They replaced the capacitors and all is okay. 
While we were there we got to see Savannah’s last softball game.

Mark is the coach and he likes to have the girls play different positions.  Savannah played right field, first base and pitched.  The girls all did really well.  She got a lot of hits and they won the game by 1 run.

When she was pitching a couple of hits came right back to her and she and the first base girl got them out both times.  At this level of softball, the girls pitch 4 pitches and then the coach comes in to pitch. Most of the girls will wait until they coach comes in to pitch to hit.   I remember when my girls started playing softball, they had pitchers but after 4 pitches they brought out a T to put the ball on.  Next year these girls are going to have to learn to hit the pitches because the coach won’t be pitching to them.  But we were proud of the girls.   They all played great.  Spending time with them is the reason we are here!

Palmer Point COE Park

This is going to be our new home until Labor Day.  We are volunteers for the Corps of Engineers here in Virginia.  There is a campground on the other side of the dam.  We stayed there 4 years ago.  However, this park is just a day use facility.  You can launch a boat, swim on the beach or just picnic.  Our job is to collect the $4.00 for each car that goes into the park.  Only one of us needs to be in the booth at any given time between the hours of 9am to 6pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  That’s a total of 27 hours.  Not bad!  
      

          Beach  (That’s Savannah)







 



         Guard Shack  (with Kim)







     

       Picnic Shelter








     
         Boat Ramp












      Bathrooms ( fancy port a potties)











      Our long walk to work!!

Bad jobs and ear piercing

Well, we lasted a month at the campground where we were working. Even the view in the previous blog couldn't keep us there.  We have never left a position so this was a first for us.  Unfortunately, when it’s a small campground with only 3 workamper couples and two couples are returning…..we felt like outsiders from the get go. 

So we left today and will be moving into a volunteer position at a COE park.  We will be the only employees and our only responsibility will be collecting the $4.00 day use fee for the picnic area and beach. And only from 9 am to 6 pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday!  Only one of us works at a time, so it should be a very easy gig.   No pay but with the site paid and no fuel costs we should be okay.

We are about the same distance from Savannah.  Speaking of Savannah, she finally got her ears pierced!!


    

               Second ear





                                                                                        
             

 All Done!!








She only had a small window of opportunity to get this done.  She starts up her cheerleading at the end of June and they can’t have anything in their ears during competition or practice.  Hopefully, she will heal before Kim has to start having to take them out.   We wanted to do this for her a couple of weeks ago and she chickened out.  Glad Mom was able to persuade her to finally get it done. 
Good job Savannah!!