The new light fixtures went up today behind the 500 and 600 buildings. I have not yet seen them illuminated. I'm sure they look great. This completes the lighting fixture replacement project except for the deck lights on 711 and 712.
The weather here has been like most of the nation, very cold. Friday morning my outside thermometer read 26.3 degrees. To make matter worse, at 7am we lost electrical power. I called the AEP and they said there were 500 residences without power. The electricity did not come back on until 12:35pm. The temperature got down to 52 degrees inside the condo. One would have hoped the cold air would have done in the mosquitoes. Alas, that's not the case or at least not entirely. Now when getting mail from the mail box only about two mosquitoes per square inch can be seen. Before the cold weather it was more like five per square inch.
All the timers on the complex were then off schedule too. J.R. got most of them reset on Saturday. The new pier was still 6 hours off so today I saw Ed in the area and showed him where the box was to reset the pier lights. Interestingly, while we were there talking an older car with 12 foot fishing rods stuck out the back window, drove up to the new pier. It was pretty obvious that they did not belong here. Ed went right over to ask them for a parking pass. Sure enough, they were from Guatemala and said they thought this was a public pier. I was glad to see Ed be proactive in taking care of our property.
The tennis court fence supports that were rusted away were replaced today.
Early this morning I missed a Kodak moment. I looked out and saw Dick(guest in 505) holding the ladder while John(guest in 204) was busy replacing the flag pole rope that winter Texans use to announce the covered dish suppers on Wednesday. Later in the day I saw Dick coming off the Phase I pier with pole in hand. He said it was too crowded for him. I counted eleven folks on the end of the pier fishing for sheepshead. It looked like they had about eight on the stinger. You can't do that on the new pier. Some people don't understand that the summer fishing is best on the new pier, but the winter fishing is all about the old pier. It all has to do with water depth. The old pier is twice as deep at the end than is the new pier.