We have been knocking out projects left and right around here. Having a late/cold spring means that time is not working in our favor. When the weather is decent, we do our best to complete as many projects as we can. Here is a post about several upgrades we have made to our miniature […]
Getting All Decked Out
We put in our miniature golf in 2004. Over the years, we have seen steady growth in miniature golfers. Sometimes it seems like customers are kind of like compound interest. You don’t start out with many, then you get a few, they tell their friends, then one day you wake up and there’s a line […]
Is That a Rope? No. A Frayed Knot.
The ropes that serve as the boundaries to our ponds up at the minigolf have definitely seen better days. They were fraying and looking pretty tough. Earlier this year, we had tried to repair them, but it wasn’t working. The rope just continued to get worse. We finally gave up on attempting to be McGuyver […]
Birthday Party Central
Over the weekend, our staff completed their 200th minigolf birthday party of the season. I didn’t want to figure it out for fear of depressing my mom, Freddi the Kitchen Guru, but that also means that she made her 500th pizza of the season. She has gotten quite good at making her homemade crust and […]
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 […]
I Heart Quinceañeras
My title at the golf course is the Wizard of Fun. When you’re in a family owned business, you get to make up titles. It compensates for the long hours. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself. The Wizard of Fun title best describes my job. I’m in charge of all the fun. I […]
Let the Playing Commence!
Menards sent us a rebate check, so you know us. We couldn’t let it burn a hole in our pocket. The show must go on, so we decided to add a play set to the miniature golf course. If you recall, on a rainy day in May, our boys had dug up some sod and […]
Meet Snappy Pete
While we were turning on the fountains at the miniature golf, we found an unusual critter hiding out under the bridge! Yes. That is a snapping turtle. We have many of them on the golf course, but none have ever made the long trek up to the minigolf. Most just hang out in the pond […]
Mud. Rain. Muscles.
Since we are beginning to offer a Tuesday Night Burger Buffet, we thought we needed to amp up the play area around the minigolf, so families could have more fun. What better way to accomplish this task, then to build a playset. Before we could put the playset together, we had to prep a space […]
Range Balls the Credit Card Way
When I was a teenager, I worked behind the snack bar at the golf course. We used to have the range balls in garbage cans and we’d scoop up the buckets to fill them. It was everyone’s least favorite job and I always tried to look busy doing something else to avoid it. Teenagers. It’s […]