Thursday May 30th 2024

The official high for the day was a degree or two below Wednesday at 96 degrees. It really didn’t feel any different. If you were in the breeze, it was comfortable. The humidity remains low for Florida and the current trend calls for the temperature to be a degree or two cooler each day through the end of the weekend.

Today was lawn mowing day in the RV Resort. With the dry conditions in this area over the last couple of months, there isn’t much grass to mow. The last time the landscape company was here was two or three weeks ago. At that time, I don’t think they even unloaded their big lawn mowers. They just used the string trimmers. Today they used the lawn mowers, but only selectively.

Many of the long term residents have been watering the grass on their sites. Their grass looked lush and tall compared to the rest of the park. Lately, we’ve been getting enough rain that the bulk of the grass is a little greener, but still thin and not very tall. The landscape company seemed to take care of the tall grass with the lawn mowers today, including the grass on the sites getting watered. The rest of us seemed to get the string trimmer treatment. Walking around later in the day, I spotted a lot of places they could have put more effort into. The one time I saw them mow everything, back in early April, there were four or five lawn mowers and about a dozen people. Today I think there were two mowers and maybe three or four people. So what’s the reason for the difference, cost or drought.