the dark break room or wait in their cars for me to go through my routine as if they know “it’s my deal”. It is, but I’ve never told them that.
everything that went out that day, make the plan for the next day, set irrigation, make sure the shed has all chemical and fertilizer needed for my next app, check in with the owner, take my If I’m ever late, maybe getting final hot lap around the property, stuck behind an early slow-moving final voicemail and email checks, tractor or stopping along the side lock the office door, and, Poof! of the road, which I have many Gone! Hit the road! (Remember times, to watch deer or turkeys I much prefer opening to closing.) play in a field at first light for a Another slow cruise through the few minutes, it’s ok. I can. No cornfields with excitement to see rush! The dark shop will always my family and hear all about be waiting but the guys will be their days, one at a time of course, cutting. They know me. awaits! After opening, each day is a new journey. Maybe I will be fixing That’s why! That’s why I tell equipment, repairing irrigation, people I made a life changing doing course set-up, top-dressing, decision to jump back into the applying chemicals or fertilizers, golf course management industry or simply monitoring and training. after a 9-and-a-half-year hiatus Wherever each day takes me I can without hesitation and without never seem to figure out where it looking back. It changed my went when I hear what seems to life. For the better! be the synchronized starting of six vehicles as the crew prepares See you all at Kilkarney Hills to “bug-out” at 2pm or so. Sorry, in September for the MGCSA another Top Gun memory. Badgerland Exposure Event. I’ll be here. Smiling. Then, typically or hopefully, with a packed golf course- my time again! Call vendors, check equipment and H.O.C. on
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