Final Winter Projects as Spring Break Ends

As Spring Break ends, the boy is safely back at school waiting to pick up his friends at the train station.  He had a successful spring break beating the heck out of us at Monopoly.  He also visited with his former high school classmates and we all took in watching his alma mater perform their winter percussion show.  He misses those days when he was in it. 

While at work we had finished up some of our final winter projects.  Such as cutting down the native grass plants, opening up the on course restrooms, reorganizing the shop areas, attending educational events,  starting the pump station, and many others things. 

 One of our bigger projects every winter is cleaning, painting and rebuilding our ball washers.  We had grown a little tired of the green paint, so we were going through some of our paint cans we had on our shelves and found a great looking Royal Blue. After painting that first ball washer, we found we didn't have enough paint for all of the ball washers but when I went to the hardware store we had found that color had been discontinued by that manufacture, and we had already thrown out the old can, so we couldn't take it to match. We tried another brand of Royal Blue that we had used for some other items, but it wasn't even close to that beautiful blue we had found first.  Our solution was we took one of our golf flags and had the color matched.  The end result was what you see on the right.  Personally I would love to move back to the nostalgic red ones of my youth, but for now we will stick with this color.  We did already receive a compliment on them.

Another project was to paint our Jr. Kids markers, which consist of landscape ties painted.  A couple of years ago we made the following tee markers for our Jr. markers, we have both the Level 1 and Level 2 US Kids  Golf Family Markers.  They do get used when our Pro gives Jr. lessons, runs a lesson/league, during our Jr. Tournaments for the youngest of kids, and last year they were used during our inaugural season with our PGA Jr. League season.  This year our Pro is hoping to have two teams.  In an effort to improve one of our par 3 for the kids by adding a new tee to fit the yardage recommended. 

   
This was the permanent tee markers the guys made a couple of seasons ago.  They stay out all season long, the post we put out when the kids get out of school. 

Well spring has sprung and we have a to do list longer then my arm.  Hopefully I can share some of our accomplishments we have this next week.

Thanks for reading!

Mel