Winter showed up



 

Looking past putter down # 1

Looking down 6 from 4 tee

# 3 green

Removing snow at Clubhouse

 

 



Tree # 2 green

    
     Big Cherry tree that was struck by lightning was removed last week.  The tree was very rotten at base.  Here are a few pic's.  Sorry no video of tree falling, camera man was help pulling tree down.

Big Oak down # 1

   We cut the big Oak tree down  on #1 rough today.  We estimated the tree was over 150 years old.  It might have been closer to 200 years old.  The center of the tree had a 8 inch diameter hollow spot.  This tree could have been around since the war of 1812.  What stories this old Oak could have told us if it could talk.  Below are a few pic's and a video of the big tree being cut down.

 

 

 Before we started.

 We cut all limbs off on the rough side.

 We tied 2 ropes to tree so it would fall in no mow area.

Big boy on the ground.

 

Spraying Tee's Poa

     We have started to spray our tee complexes with Roundup to control the winter annuals.  This is a time consuming project.  We have to do this by hand.  Winter annuals  are made up of mostly Poa annua or Annual Rye grass.  It germinates in early fall and grows throughout the fall and winter.  If let unchecked it can out compete our Zoysia grass and cause considerable thinning.

This is a shot of Poa  on a tee.  If we would let this go that entire areas would be one big green patch of Poa.

 Nick spraying 18 black tee.

Finished

 

Cooking Maple Sap

     We have began cooking down our maple sap.  We have about 15 gals. so far.  We will continue to collect sap through the month of February.  I hope to get about 1 quart of syrup out of sap we have on hand right now.  By the time we are done collecting all sap, I hope to be able to make at least  1 gallon of syrup.  Keep your fingers crossed that we can make enough syrup for a Pancake breakfast at the Club.  We will keep you posted.

 

Our fire pit

Boiling sap