Dick and Doug are honing in their carpentry skills again now that fall is upon us. Up until a few weeks ago, they have been mowing and maintaining the grounds at the golf course. They claim they enjoy this break from the norm. I’m glad they do! I asked them what time they would be […]
Presto! We Have Trees!
We have been very busy this fall tying up a bunch of loose ends. Our main focus has been to get our ceremony site completed. Our first ceremony for next year is in May and we want to have the space fully functional by then. As I mentioned here, we are pleased to announce that […]
Days of our Ceremony Site Episode #5: We Have Grass!
I’m sure you have all been on the edge of your seat wondering how the new ceremony site is coming along. When we last left our ceremony site, we had decided to install irrigation and speaker wire, then we seeded the site and crossed our fingers. The soil has caused us fits all year, so […]
Let’s Talk About Water, Shall We?
For the second year (almost three), we have found ourselves in drought conditions. I thought I’d share with you all the fun that those conditions can bring to a golf course. In case you can’t tell, I’m using the word fun very loosely. Droughts are definitely good for exposing your weaknesses in irrigation and (possibly) […]
A Golf Course’s Harvest Time
When I was a kid, I loved the time of year when we aerated greens. The entire crew would come together and it felt like every piece of equipment we owned had a duty for the day. There was excitement in the air. Mom always made a special meal for the outside crew and there […]
Fancy Seeding You Here!
As you may or may not know, we’ve been working on creating a new ceremony site at the golf course. It all started last year, when the drought caused our ponds to go dry. With an empty pond, we decided to take advantage of it and build a peninsula that would double as a ceremony […]
Another Episode in the Saga of the Ceremony Site
In the next chapter of Days of our Ceremony Site Building Lives, we bring you another episode of Doug and his sidekick, Jordan. After digging the trenches to put in irrigation, the next step was to fill the trenches with electricity and speaker wire. You can read about the irrigation installation here. In order to […]
A Place to Rest
Our miniature golf course opened on June 30, 2004. I wasn’t there. Yep, that’s right. I missed opening day. I had a good reason, though. I was in the hospital having just given birth to my daughter the night before. I often wonder how I managed to find the time to have my daughter in […]
It’s Hammer Time!
When you ask a teenager to get up early in the morning to come to work, you are usually greeted by a few groans. Those groans suddenly become grins when they find out there will be a sledgehammer involved. I’m not sure how long ago we put up this fencing around the clubhouse area. If […]
The gods Must be Crazy!
Remember that movie? When the airline pilot dropped a Coke bottle out of the window of his airplane into a third world country. The tribe’s leader decided that the bottle had caused great harm and he set off to to throw the bottle off the edge of the earth. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-WJtGC8dI] We think that someone must […]