The bulkhead and the channel wall continue to move further apart. I put up a picture of the separation several months ago. It has about doubled in separation now. The old steel strap worked, but rusted away. J.R. said he would have some posts installed behind the channel wall to slow this process down. Maybe the barge working on the shoreguard could do this too, although it would be a shared expense with the other two HOAs.
A new pure white cat has been dropped off here. The old yellow cat is defending his territory vigorously. Maybe they will stake off their own area. The white cat is relatively tame at this point. I'll see if I can get a picture.
The old AC units are taking a beating in this heat. We had one in each of the 500,600 and 300 need repair this week. I called Bill Davis of L&B Air Conditioning 361 205-4757 to clean the evaporator coils in my daughter's condo. He charges $350, but that is a good price. B.J.'s Air Conditioning cleaned the coils in the unit in the 300 building yesterday and said they get $480. Cheap filters are not really cheap when you figure they are the leading cause of this problem. I believe every unit here with an AC older than three years could be helped a lot by cleaning the coils. As I walk around I hear nearly all the units working hard to try to cool the condos and a lot of this is just poor efficiency on the part of the unit. The coils are easy to inspect and every one I've seen lately has been caked over with lint and debris.
Shop the World store has a nice clearance on furniture right now. I went in to get a king headboard they were selling for $165 and ended up with two complete bedrooms of furniture. Alan(108) saw the delivery truck and asked about the sale and went there and purchased a five drawer chest for their bedroom.
The Phase II golf cart is still parked in front of our maintenance shed. John said the asking price is $150 for either one of them. They both need some work.
The dumpster schedule did not go as planned. They didn't pick up on Monday, but came Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Today the dumpsters are overloaded and the cleaning staff is just starting to work on the back to back rental units. This also presents a problem because the waste cans around the property have to be emptied too.
Chris and Karra are returning from a cruise today, or at least that is what I heard.
Thursday, Allen replaced the sand in the pool filter. Friday, he as here at 8 am to see how things were going. The pool was still cloudy, but everything was working. I went outside about 9:15am and we had a virtual river flowing through the parking lot in front of the 100 building, in front of the 700 building and into the drain where boats are washed. I called J.R. and said he had not heard, but would call Ed to see what he could do to stop it. Ed looked at it and said the whole pool was being drained. He called around and found Allen at the Racquet Club and Allen came right back. I have never seen Al drive up so fast throwing a big wake of water behind him in the parking area. He looked at it and said indeed something was way wrong. He turned it off and began to work on it after securing some parts. It took him several hours, but he fixed it all up. Today the water is still cloudy and Al said it may take two more days to clear.