Ground Hog Day!!

Well everyone has probably heard by now that the ground hog saw his shadow, which means we are suppose to be in store for six more weeks of winter. Whether you believe in this or not is up to you. However six more weeks of this winter is going to test my patience with all the snow we have had and some of the extreme cold temperatures. This week is looking like a pretty decent week weather wise. Who would have ever thought I would be saying that with high 30's and low 40's as highs? Unfortunately this is where we are at now, but I will take weather like this any day over the extreme cold. My staff has been staying busy the last couple of days working on the drainage on #14 fairway, repairing goose damage on greens, and installing rock along cart paths as weather permits. The drainage on #14 is going to be a big addition for the playing conditions on this hole. The right side of the fairway has always held water and moisture and we had to replace sod here last year and had poor playing conditions during the wet periods. Installing these lines are going to improve the drainage on this fairway tremendously and will improve playing conditions drastically. Most of our holes we have been able to keep the geese at bay with our cardboard coyote cutouts. However the geese over on #7 must be a little smarter then the ones everywhere else. We are going to try some other deterrents on #7 green and tee and see if we can keep them at bay. We are going to be out repairing some more areas on the green this morning, but hopefully we will get them under control. As weather has permitted we have continued to install the rock along the cart paths in the high traffic areas. Unfortunately when the ground starts to thaw out we have to stop working on this cause it just becomes a muddy mess. I will be taking a 10 day hiatus here starting on Thursday. I am going to be heading out to Sunny San Diego and Palm Springs California for our annual GCSAA education conference and our golf championship. I hope everyone has a great week and I will be in touch when I return on February 13th.