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Over the winter. Now, normally after, towards the end of October, we don’t mow again until March, unless you have a warm spell or something like this, and we might go out and mow a time or two, you guys overseed. We ever see fairways at our par three teas. So where my lamb, you know, two, three times a week. Depending on growing weather and all that kind of stuff. Right. What’s going on when you, Michael? I felt not much. Uh, yeah, no, it felt good today. It was 75 degrees here. Yeah. I can’t tell you what the temple is here, but I can tell you. Went out to pick up some groceries in my truck. And I came back and I was like, you know what, I’m taking the bike out for a ride. So I went for a little nice John on my motorcycle. Yeah. Oh, I did do. I walked outside, let dogs out. And I’m like, yup. I’m hopping on a bike and I’m gone for a couple hours. Yeah. Hurley. I got a Honda VTX, 1300 R uh, yeah, that’s about the same thing. I think my way’s probably a couple hundred pounds more than yours. Probably probably it’s 30 days. Hell though, man, I was doing some work in the garage, sanding and stuff on this wood for my freaking smoker. Damn. Dusk got all over it. I should have cleaned off before I went. I was kind of embarrassed a little bit. I thought maybe to blow off, you know, from the wax and stuff on the paint. Oh man. I know I have a wash mine forever. I love going to bite a bite meat and everything. Mine is just dirty as shit and everybody else is just out there cleaning and wiping her off. I’m like, fuck you. Come down here for. No hard do not go to that crazy mess. Well, when I was in school down there, I went, man. That’s just, I don’t, I don’t want that many people. And especially during bike week, I mean, they get, they get pretty rowdy. Um, It depends on where you go, man. I like to just go out and ride around and see what’s going on. I like going down, going past something below and down at the beaver bar and stuff. I don’t know. I don’t take off work to go through, you know, do all the rides and stuff they do. I usually just do whatever, like on a Sunday or something, the guys I ride with, we used to go ride on our own, but we haven’t done that for a while. They’re all older. Yeah, that’s who I ride with. I ride with some older guys and Sundays that’s fun. And then some days it’s like, man, y’all going through them. Slow kind of clubs or anything like that? Well, the club we had, it was just something we threw together. They would call it the flying monkey. That’s cause the guy that was kind of the leader, uh, and he, uh, they told him they wanted him to start a motorcycle club and he’s like, what? Monkeys fly? And then one day they were like, well, we might as well just do it. So that’s when they call it the flying monkeys, but they were all, I mean, they’re all older retired. Most of them were retired police and stuff. I mean, hell some of the guys passed away already. You know that I ride with. So, you know, they’re in their late sixties and seventies, some of them are already sold their bikes and everything and full ride anymore. So older, older, tired, or the M ones are tired, but yeah. One is a birthday Anderson used to be the tour Rotech for Columbia area. And then the other one is, is James last night, James. He worked with STR but up there, uh, top in the North Carolina. Okay. So he lived down your way now? No, he’s still in North Carolina. So we, you know, we always make the crack up that way. We want to got to be. Yeah. And you got to wear your helmet up in North Carolina to ride with your element or? No, it depends. Um, if I go on the interstate for any length of time, I’ll throw on my half helmet when it starts getting a little bit cooler or when I ride with the wipe, I’ll put on my full face because I got coms on my full face, so I can talk to her and she can listen to music. But other than that, not really. Yeah. Usually I used to always wear it because I hated all that freaking blown and making my eyes water and stuff. But I don’t know. I think you just get used to it now. I hardly ever wear. Yeah. So whenever it gets like spring, spring, and I started riding some more rock, I have to go from full face to half helmet just to get my ears back. Right. Really it’s my year that, you know, get off. Oh, yeah. I almost thought of where your plugs all that. But I got a, I was planning on tearing down the bark this winter and putting the new cam and stuff in it. It’s not a it’s I mean, being a Harley, I mean, it’s got a lot of the work on the bottom end, but it doesn’t have much on the higher RPM. I want to retorque it, you know, especially for highway riding and stuff. If I got to go and pass somebody and all that, I want to have that little extra, you know? Okay. You can say what you want and you just want to go fast. That’s okay. I don’t mind. Oh yeah. Oh man. It’ll go. It’ll fuck me ass. Now I was, I was robbing a Camaro one day coming home down the interstate and I happened to look down. We were doing like 130. I’m like, y’all gotta back off this. Yeah, right. She gets scary when you go, oh, Jesus. When you’re going that fast, I guess scary and down the interstate, it’s not too bad, but if you’re all like a bad, well, we went and wrote the blue Ridge and stuff and went to smokey mountains and there all that. Ron with them older guys, like, I don’t mind going slow, but it’s like, all right, I’ll meet you at the bottom of the mountain, because once you started going slow around there, it gets a lot more dangerous. Then I was like, man, I will meet y’all at the bottom or the top or whatever it is. I can’t be worried about y’all and watching my feed at the same time. Right. You ever go ride the dragon we were going to, and then we kind of ran into some bike problems with a buddy of ours. So we just called it kind of. But I do plan on making it up that way. I haven’t, but I want to bring a tool to do it. Well, this new job, I got to figure out what the hell are. You know, if I can find even some throwing trips this summer, I probably won’t. Well, good afternoon. How are y’all guys doing good? We’re just talking about riding motorcycles down here in the south. That’s probably not familiar with up there. No, we’ll put away our summer toys. We’re pulling out the winter toys right now. I actually have heard of the dragon down, um, down in the states, um, that used to be an avid bike. And I put it away for a while when I had my kids, but who knows? It’s still in the garage and it’s still collecting dust. So I might have to shake off the dust one date. Yeah, I got a couple of friends who were riding Harleys and stuff like that. They laugh at me all the time. When I, when I pull out my little scissors, I go riding with them. I’ve got a pull up my little scissors and it’s a fun little toy. I’ve always been nervous. Um, I I’m not too nervous about them. I’m nervous about more of the other drivers who are out there who don’t see me because every bike out there is the smallest can be. I don’t want to come off second, no matter whose fault it is. So, so I try to make sure that I’m not in blind spots. I’m not going to drive around fast. I’ll just stay in the back end when there’s nobody I’ll pass them. Then. That’s what I always get in trouble when I’m back. Just relax. If I’m just out, just cruising around, not being aggressive on my bike. That’s when I always get in trouble, caught him bad predicament. It’s been on a bike. You have to be, you know, you have to be aggressive for the most part. I mean, especially down at the beach. I’d hate to go down. during rush hour crap. My wife, my wife hates ride a motorcycle in two times. Well, more than two times, but she went on a twice, both times for bike week. We went down to the beach, came back and both times we nearly died. The one time we were in a hit and run, I laid it over on, uh, on King’s highway, 17 business. And the next time was, uh, one year later. Exactly. We were coming up. Up over the bridge, over, over the waterway there on 5 0 1 at the exit there with the traffic was all backed up and we came up behind him and I’m like, ah, shit. I said, hold on. And I was trying to get into the left lane cause you know, people are always on their phone and uh, sure enough, I just had a sideways behind this truck trying to go when there was so much traffic, I couldn’t pull out. Dodge challenger charger, whatever it was came over the hill, never freaking saw. It’s luckily he saw it at the last minute and went down in between the guard rail and the cars and can bounce back and forth. And my wife’s like, she’s like, yep, I’m never getting on that against. Yeah, I’ve got one of those lives who doesn’t want to be at the back fit. So I just said, yeah, I’ll just make mine a single seat cut up and rear pigs. That is a little pilot seat on the back of my bike with no with no flu pegs. So nobody’s going to be riding with me. And my wife goes to mind, I mean, as long as we’re on a back road or something like, I mean, we, if we take the back roads, like we’ll go to Ralston and she, you know, she’s like that. So once we go on the interstate, it’s another there for her. Yeah, riding in traffic. I don’t really like riding on the interstate either too much. I mean, I’ve done it so much for work back and forth to work. I mean, it really doesn’t bother me. Well, I do it cause you know, for me going to work it’s down 31 and then I get off right there on Grissom, you know, but it’s just like in the mornings, there’s always deer out there. Oh yeah. Uh, for me, it’s like 20 minutes maybe, but I mean, that’s, you know, in the morning putting in the afternoon, it’s much more, you know, cause it’s a lot, lot more traffic then, especially in the summertime when all the tourists are down. Well, the next time I’m riding dumbed down that way. It’s only two or not for my house. It’s like three hours of water just on the other side of Columbia. Okay, man, that’s a fricking hall. Oh my goodness. Uh, he gets down a bore and after a while it’s the same road and that the whole way through basically a 20 or yeah, I mean, I got to lend foot. I’m always going fast. So what I should be, they changed the law up here. It’s like the, it’s almost like a damn most speed limit thing. Cause it’s like a. Slow lane, or if you’re going slow, stay in the right lane or some shit and chip man, I go 90. So went home. I’ll just pass that one back off. I don’t say nothing anymore. Let me, I got pulled over, going down on my granddaughter doing 70 and a 45. I think he realized that was. He gave me a break though. I have my CDL. So even though I wasn’t actually currently driving, so he was like, oh, I see. You’re a working man. So he gave me a break. I was like, thank God. Well, what about you, Michael? And Chris are y’all off work. Any. Oh, yeah, I’m off until the 7th of January. And, uh, I’m just enjoying, hanging out with my boys because they go back to school on the third. So dad’s got extra couple of days. Yeah. There’s not much for us to really do on the course. Um, we’ve got our tarps all covered up on our greens and we’ve got a couple of monitors that are Bluetooth to a phone to take a look at some of the temperatures underneath the tarps, but I’m just hanging out rebuilding reels and getting ready for spring. Yeah. One spring time kickoff. Maybe April. We’re hoping April, if it’s beginning of April, it’s a really long season, but, uh, we’re usually looking at mid to end of April. So yeah. It’s like, what is it? Today’s uh, I think it’s minus 20 Fahrenheit. Wow. I, I know where it minus 27 Celsius and it’s pretty cool. Those temps when they’re in the negative. So yeah, we’ve, we’ve just basically got our heaters going on at the shop and we’re hoping that we come back and we make sure that our sprayers are totally ice blocks. I don’t care. What are y’all y’all put, I had a freeze in them or just trying to get all the water. No, we actually keep them eating. Um, it’s one of these things that when I was doing my RV and stuff like that, I would do an antifreeze and chasing lines and stuff. And I’d still have a little section that wouldn’t get all the antifreeze and it would just pop a line. And we said, okay, well, Instead of trying to blow it out with water, like irrigation or pumping any freeze through. And then all of a sudden, your first spray is, makes the baby freeze and whatever nutrients she’s like, why don’t we just keep them heated? And it’s like at our work, keep it in room temperature and stuff like that, and make sure that we don’t run out of propane for the building. And we’re good to rock and roll as soon as it comes time to drop some stuff. Yeah, that was crazy. I’m glad we don’t have to worry about that down here. Oh, I believe you guys do. Because when we, when we shut down October 15th, that is a hard date for our course. Um, just because we can depend on weather and we were still hand watering, uh, up until November. I think it was about November 10th because we didn’t really get a real cold, a free snap. And we just had to keep water going down and make sure that somewhere. They weren’t trying out, we weren’t getting a lot of growth, but we just wanted to make sure that they were watered and well and stuff. And you know, we’re sending out a tanker with, uh, one of the guys and they weren’t happy. It all got done and then, then came winter and, and he’s talked us in hard. So y’all blow out the whole irrigation system. Oh yeah. Yeah. We get a big 1600 compressor and we run that for 72 hours straight. We push out. I don’t know how much water it is. We got to be punks in a jockey pump and a big 10 inch line coming out of it. We’re just sit there and just let her buck just fill it up with diesel, get the pressure going. And our super and the agronomy team, they basically ran around making sure that all the heads are popping with opening valves. At the end of the lines were dropping connections when we go over a Creek, just so we don’t have any water in there. And if it does. If there is any water, it should gravity feed out of it. We then turn that everything stays nice because the irrigation, as well as we dig it a lot where the ground might be frozen, that’s crazy. And that tiny three days or something, three days, three days, big 1600 gallons per minute. Wow. Compressing. Uh, we’re 18 or an 18 hole course. Um, we were our courses over a hundred years old, so we’ve had a lot of stuff in and out of it in the ground come out of the ground. Yeah. We don’t like that system. It doesn’t work that well. So when we place it, and right now we’re dealing with just a whole bunch of PVC stuff and I’m seeing some courses down in Texas. What was it last year that are getting all these frost breaks and frost spiral breaks where they’re digging up like 20, 40 foot sections of pipe and I’m going, why wouldn’t you blow it out? All right. It’s Texas. They don’t expect us. So I feel free for those irrigation guys who have to try to find all these frost breaks that are happening and. All you can do is just replace sections. Just follow the crack until it stops. That was unusual for them last year. That’s for sure. But for me having to work all year round, that’d be unusual for me. That’d be horrible. It’s a weird adjustment. I can tell you that. It definitely is interesting. Seeing what Mike Rawlins is doing with all these guys who are trying to adjust, cut and stuff. I’m listening to some of the Twitter stuff where people are changing angles, trying to figure out what’s going good. And it’s like, yeah. They have different types of grasses. Um, we’re pretty much a polo dominated creams area and we’re running, what is it? Seven and five seven on the top five on the front. And it’s working for us where some people are working like 15. It’s like coldly, T’s 15 degrees on the front. That’s crazy. But everybody has to do a different thing. Um, we’re using actually the Toro 3,300 TriFlex. We’re using tournament edge, uh, edge max. And it does a really nice strong for us. We’ve got a whole bunch of other things that we sort of run around just after sand and aeration, but the majority we’re doing is just the TriFlex right now. Just because of manpower. We’re finding that if we send out a whole bunch of walkers on it, everything sort of gets. Delayed. And we’re having a bunch of other Moore’s than get caught up in play. But yeah, every once in a while, we’ll send out the walkers when it’s, um, when it’s a special thing, if it’s men’s members or if we’re having an associate pro tournament or something like that, we’ll, we’ll dress it up and make it pretty. But it’s usually a nice Cod that we have with the TriFlex is in all of our members are happy with it and we can get it done really quick. And it’s only one machine going out established. Pardon me? What was that? What year was your course established? 1907 or something ridiculously long. We were called the Regal golf club and I’ve seen old archive pictures of it. And. I can see where the Creek is that runs through our property. And I can associate where the golf course would be and how it would be laid out there. But there’s nothing around here. They have this old sand stone school from that era and sad school is still around, but there is no residents and they super where the major roads are now. And it’s like, oh, that’s so cool to see. It’s pretty, pretty interesting. Old archive photos. Vinnie, all other listeners have anything to say? Just, uh, I asked to speak down there on the bottom and we’ll get you on here. Cause we’re not really talking about anything, but it’s fun. And I appreciate you all being here. It’s great to actually get in one of these things. That’s like last week I was sick. I don’t know. I think I had a good old fashioned man cold, but I missed it. And yeah, I’m going to try to hop into these things because I don’t know who it was, but somebody told me you’re only get what you put in. And if you put in a lot, you’ll get a lot out of it. And I’m taking that as almost a mantra because. I like the golf course industry. It’s fun. I got to meet people like Trent. Well, and that’s one of the great things I think about our WhatsApp group and doing this. I mean, it’s a lot of the same people that’s in the WhatsApp group. But we’re all like-minded and we enjoy what we do and you can’t really get enough of it. And some people might think that’s sad, but I don’t. So we’re just going to keep doing it. I know it’s cliche, but if you, if you work at what you like, I’ll never work at the end of your life. Yeah. It’s very cliche, but I love it. And I don’t feel like I’m going to work in. And like me and Chad were talking, I think before you got home and we don’t have to go back for a while and I’ll be missing it does this like being around the shop and everything happens. Heck, no, I’ll miss it. I’ll I will enjoy going back to it. But, um, if the management team in new ground me, I’ve got my super assistant and a junior assistant in me and we will still chat and send texts and just keep in communication, stuff like that. Even if it’s just sending us something dumb that we see on Twitter, Haas, I should like this and then you’ll get a laugh on it then. Yeah, we, we exchanged Christmas presents and we said, yeah, we’ll see you in the new year. That works. Yup. Nothing wrong with that. So what other things we talking about other, because the only thing that I see on the screen is business finance, sports and car. Well, my screen, it says careers. So when you set up one of these spaces, pick three categories and that’s the three way pitch. So, and this is a free for all. We’ll talk about whatever anybody wants to talk about. Nothing matter to me. But what, what is your, uh, fairways up there, Chris? Um, no, we’re pretty much, uh, uh, we’ve got some more aggressive patching that we’re going to pull up here. Unfortunately it takes over everything where I was at in Pennsylvania was the same way we had polo greens and they were supposed to be Ben. Obviously that’s all it took it all over, but we had mostly ryegrass. We tried to do some patching with some bluegrass. Um, it’s taken quite well, but every spring, when you come in, come on. Geez. There’s another dead area. No, it’s all POA. And. I don’t know. I think somebody nicknamed in June grass, but every June, it comes back and it’s nice and green, and then all the members are happy. But yeah, that April may know people are going to as a dad, just pull up, well, what do we do? Well, we throw lots of money at it. What is it? We will rain. W we’ll hit up into, what is it? The thirties low thirties, which has probably nineties, mid nineties to a hundred sometimes. Um, but yeah, it’s, if, if you guys sort of know where I am out from Calgary, Alberta, which is probably three, three and a half hours north of great falls, Montana. So it sort of gives you a geographic location where all in the shadows of the mountains and in the wintertime, it can be minus 20. And then all of a sudden, within a week it’ll be 54 55 up in that range. We’ll get listings called Chinooks. And they’re just wonderful things to look with. Because it’s just brutally cold right now. And then next week I could be wandering around in t-shirts and a pair of. I don’t know how much snow you guys got. Cause I’ve got about 10 inches of my friend yard. I haven’t seen it. No, I stopped when I was up in sensory visiting family, actually, they had about six inches in Charleston the year or two ago, but it’s not a curse. Not to know what snow looks like. There’s nothing down here to clean the snow up with. Well, heck we use a little John Deere, we have a little front blade audit and a little John Deere sand trap, and that we use for pushing dirt and Sandra and stuff like that. We’ll put that on and we’ll go scoot that around. But we, we also have a skid steer in here that we put a blade on it and it goes up and clears the parking lot. So we had a ranch in Pennsylvania and we had a truck with a plow. And a skid loader, but that scalar wasn’t worth a crap in the smell because it had wheels on it not tracked. So anytime you go out in and it would just spin everywhere, we got a wheels on ours and the first road that they had to grade to get up to the parking lot is what is it? You actually get to 11 degrees on it. So it’s pretty steep. And we just try to get up that hill and he doesn’t complain about it. Cause he’s got a heater in it that way. Oh, well, that’s why you’ve put on the coveralls and heavy coat and gloves. And then your honor. It’s not minus 20. It’s not too bad 20. Now I don’t know about all that. When there’s 20 minus 20 on their mama and I am not leaving the house. What do you heat your shop with that there? Uh, we use propane we’re, uh, we’re sort of separated from the city system just because we have this huge verticals and stuff. Um, we have. Big tank. I don’t know, because gets fields whenever we get down to about 35%, we’ve just got a sensor on it that goes to the propane shop and they send a truck out and the driver will look at and it’s just like, come on, dude, we’ll put gravel out. It was just rolled out. We had one year when it was getting low. It was the day before we broke and my super’s going okay, how do we, how do we make sure that if we don’t get a proponent tomorrow, how are we going to keep this place going? Well, I know that we’ve got a two 20 line for my welder. I’ve got another two 20 line in there for an air compressor. So let’s build some electric heaters and we were set up for electricity. Just that way. They do it out east. They were on electricity for heating quite regularly. So I said, well, let’s figure out a way to keep a warm, but yeah, it was good for us. If y’all ever get a chance to go and visit Chris highly recommend it. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever laid my eyes on. It is so beautiful up there. I went down to Florida. When was it? Three four years ago with my family, we went on a cruise out of Orlando and we flew in. We had no problem with then we were looking around and it’s like, I can’t get my bearings. Cause I can’t figure out a huge landmark because everything for me, if I could see the mountains, I know that’s west and I’m looking around all over the place going. There’s no elevation change. You’re out here. I’m going to get the story just because these mountains for us today are. There that’s west for us. And that’s where we know where it is. So take a look at my backyard. Just take a look at damn. It’s a beautiful place. I went up there a couple days early just by myself and just hocked around in the snow. And it was so much fun. Yeah, it is pretty cool up here. Yes. One of the hard things to get used to down here at the beach. It’s so flat, there’s slight little turns in the roads. So whenever I go back up to Pennsylvania to visit, that’s always takes me a couple times up there to getting used to flying around a turn because I go into a real hot and it’s like, I always forget about these stupid. No, we got stupid turns in here, but we have gravel when we’re going fast, because of all this know that we’ve had dropped down, they throw gravel all over the roads, getting rid of all the snow. You have to worry about other P grill that’s out there. Yeah. When I had my bike. Oh goodness. No, they might use it out east, but where we are, we majority just. Okay. Cause they always use salt. Oh, they had this other thing. They sprayed on the roads. If they sprayed it, supposedly if they sprayed it before the storm hit, it would keep the snow from laying on the street. But I never saw that it always laid on the street. We use a bit of that and they, they call it a pickling brine. And I don’t know what’s in here and I don’t feel like having these big tubs of whatever liquid that we have to have around here. So we just put it into a pile of gravel and. Grab it. And then we just throw it into the old one back the Kubota, and then we just go throw it around with shovels, let gravity do the work. Uh, and by the name. And he accepted. And as Mike is meted right now, but I was gonna bring in somebody that we don’t normally talk to see what’s happening with them. And I don’t remember where he’s at. These are the Oakland Hills, his, uh, his old super is my new boss. Okay. So as the South Carolina guy, too, Okay. I should know who he is then or where his Oakland Hills, Michigan. You got to push the mark on the bottom left hand corner. Yep. Hey, welcome. Hey, nice. I’m actually getting off the airplane there now. Oh, wow. Okay. Well let me get situated and I might talk to you. Okay. Good deal. Oh, here we go. What’s happening with you, man? Just completely forgot again. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Everything seems good. What was that? I said it’s not a requirement, buddy. It’s just every time when I do get about this time, it’s when I kind of settled down a little. Before, starting to go to bed and stuff, but, um, then I’m like, man, listen to something. Oh crap. The realtor. But now everything seems good. Yeah. Christmas is great. How about yours? It looks good. He’s still in town. Yeah, I’m still in town where we’re planning on going down to, uh, see my family, um, in central Florida. Um, we’ll be, I’ll be in Palm bay there on Thursday. Um, it’s kind of a bittersweet thing because we’re planning on selling the house. I grew up in down there, so it’s going to be the last, uh, the whole family is going to go there, but. We haven’t been in that house together since my dad passed away. So it’s going to be a last thing for us for this year. Sorry to hear that good things come from it, I guess. Definitely. But how about yourself? Are you going anywhere? I’m in Kansas right now. Yep. I am at my girlfriend’s place. Nice. It’s nice. Having a girlfriend, 800 miles away closer. Nope. I couldn’t find one any closer as she’s listening, she must be good. She must, she has a pretty good. Hey, I got a question for you guys down there. How is traveled down there? Because. I’m sort of only get peripheral, um, news items and stuff like that, because I really want to go to San Diego this year and I’m worrying about it because all we see on the news is that yeah, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID COVID and, um, hearing all these guys and you guys are traveling around and you guys aren’t having to deal with too much of an issue, is it okay? Are you guys seeing any issues with. I mean for, for myself. Um, I’m actually just coming off a lot of things right now. Um, cause we ha I had it not too long ago and it kinda hit me hard. Um, but thank God I’ve been, we’ve been recuperating and, and my family and my wife’s, my two kids had it too. Um, so we’ve been recuperating, uh, but her going down to Florida. South Carolina. I mean, if you’re talking about like mass mandates and stuff like that, it’s not, at least in my part. It’s not, has not been a big thing. And then I know where my family’s at in Florida, they they’re, they’re kind of like 50, 50. Um, but yeah, that’s, I mean, that’s what I’ve seen. Hmm. Okay. Then I’m going to roll the dice and hopefully I’ll get across the border. Yeah. Now I don’t know about California. I know California’s been, uh, from my own, from what I understand, they’ve been a lot more strict, so I don’t know about that. ’cause I’ve been reading, like all the GCSA stuff, GCs, AA. And, um, they’re saying that yeah, public areas is all masks. Yeah. I have your, your vaccines and we get your passport and you get a wristband and then it’s like the waterpark. You can go anywhere. I don’t, I think different, I think, depending on where you may be in the states, cause Georgia is a free for all down there. We were licking each other’s eyeballs for the most part. Um, I’ve noticed, you know, different places I’ve traveled or whatever, even in the south that are coming out here at Kansas, you stop at a convenience store and everybody will have a mask on, but at Georgia, you don’t see anybody into my ask asking. I didn’t see that many people and the Carolinas, one of them went up there for the show back in November. But like what you were saying with the California. I think the mandates till January 15th, but who knows though? Extend it past that, uh, one thing we’re hoping is they definitely don’t require you to get a test. Oh, I I’ve got to get a test before I get on the plane to go down. So that’s, um, I think that’s within a day or 24 hours. Depending upon how it’s interpreted. If I have a flight that leaves at two o’clock in the afternoon, I have to have a test after two o’clock the day before. And it’s just, it’s getting kind of crazy and ridiculous. And then once I actually plan to come back, I have to have another test. Coming back seen that. Yeah. I’m hopefully still probably negative. And then when I’m back, I got to get one. When I’m off the plane, off the plane, I could actually be going into a quarantine hotel. So yeah, it’s kind of crazy, but I’m hoping it’s worth it, but the show is just like, yeah, it’s pretty amazing. And I want to beat everybody GCs. Uh, I think they are as well. I think that’s what I read on their website. If you’re not vaccinated, or if you don’t have proof of vaccination, you have to have a negative test within 48 hours. And then once you have that negative test, you get your wristband and then you can go in and cause they said you don’t have to show your, your test every time. So I looked at it this way, if I’m from vaccinated and if I’m exposed to COVID. Hopefully my Maxine’s will work well. I don’t want to be a Debbie downer, but I had both my shots and I still got it back in September and my dad, both of his shots and he still got it in September. The one good thing is neither one of us got that sick. I mean, no, you’re wrong. It wasn’t 90 fun, but it was about like having. And he’s 78 and a diabetic. And luckily he didn’t have to go into the hospital. Thank goodness. Now, my wife, she actually works at one of the hospitals up here and, uh, she comes home, but unfortunately, The stories of those that have had it, and those who were going off to ICU. And hopefully she’ll keep me around for a few more years. If I just listen to her, if I don’t listen to her, she’ll kill be herself. Gotcha. Yeah. I mean, it’s a crazy thing. I can’t, it’s so hard to talk about it too sometimes, but it’s, I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know if you guys follow music that much, if you guys have ever heard of IL Divo, one of the tenders that sings there, he passed away at 53 and he was vaccinated. And he, you know, he got, he had passed away from that. Now, again, we don’t, I don’t, I’m not mature conspiracy theories or anything like that or whatever, but I don’t know if it is then to make it seem that or whatever, but it happened, you know, it’s kind of crazy. Yeah. I know that whomever gets it. I don’t wish ill on anyone. I don’t want anyone to have to go through the symptoms of Kobe and I don’t want anyone to die from COVID, but yet. I just wanted to be able to do some things. I want to be able to carry on in a normal world and meet some people. Have you never been to the. If I do go this year, it’ll be mine. It’ll be my first one. Well, it’s funny because when I met Trent, that was three, four years ago and it was probably my second, um, just Gulf conference of anything. Uh, and it was, it was really neat just to see all these equipment technicians getting together and just sort of tin wagon and just talking about equipment, sharing problems and figuring out how to do stuff. Um, And then this year it’s like, it feels like I’ve sort of been there for a few more years and it’s like, everybody’s sort of saying hi to me and stuff like that. It’s like, no, just I’m nobody. I’m just close ranches. And to see that there’s a huge show who is like international, where people would come from all over the place just to go see what’s going on in the golf industry is like, yeah, I want to be part of that. I want to see how. Big and crazy. This thing is because if you don’t experience it, how do you know how good it is? Yeah, that’s for sure. There’s a lot of times it’s really nice to put faces with names or places. Twitter handles. It’s a good time. Now that you’ve been to the Carolina’s, what is there much of a difference compared to them? I mean, obviously bigger and more stuff probably. But is there a difference kind of, or, um, I mean, not, not that big of a difference other than just the sheer size. The amount of equipment they have is incredible there and all the different booths, but you know, that’s the other thing for us as equipment managers have to boost you don’t really care about anyway, because you know, maybe we would care about bunker sand, but a lot of this other stuff we don’t care about and my assistants, you sit there on me in front of their sales reps and tell them you gotta sell it to this guy. Cause he can sell it to our super. They would throw me in the middle of it. The only, the only way I’ll talk to my super about is if you’d given me a hat. So, and the amount of education and variety of education, I think is a lot better than what I seen at the Carolinas. Just because there’s a lot more classes, whether it be like leadership classes, communication classes, You know, kinda a little bit outside of our element. Gotcha. No, I’ve been looking at the, the agenda and just taking a look and what classes there are, and it’s just like, it’s going to be great just to see everything and just to talk to some people about some things it’s like, who is it? Who’s doing the autonomous stuff. He, he looks like it’ll be an interesting thing. I’ve seen one. Um, the reports on how he was dealing with your ton from ours. And then it kinda got shut down because some big red company went in and bought a bunch of it. And it’s like, okay, now let’s see what tour is going to be doing. So, yeah, it’ll be easier to be interesting. I’m excited to see, see what they come up with. Um, I don’t know. I think we might even talk about this last time, but I am not a fan of autonomous. Fairway mowers makes no sense at all, because that is the best job on the golf course. You asked any crew guy and that’s what they all aspire to be. You know, when I’m thinking of the autonomous most mowers for the rough areas. Yeah. I definitely think that is a lot more relevant and we really need an autonomous, uh, tremor to trim around trees. That’s what they need to be working on. Well, I’m the odd ball out then. I’d rather cut rough and weedy than my fair was. You are the odd ball out. I thought that was the way to D cause every my old golf courses, uh, the guys that retired, the retired guys that would come down, that’s all they wanted to do was cook. Um, I never heard anybody say it like that, you know, mow fairways instead of, you know, like knowing fair was more than anything else. Ah, well maybe, I mean, maybe I’m just out in left field here, but I thought fairway, my one, I was the gravy job. Cause rough Mo and you might have to, you know, move steaks or mow around trees, or, you know, I’m going to tell you a pet peeve right quick down here. When we cover greens, we got these steaks right there, like tent stakes. Uh, but they’re whatever, they’re, they’re probably like five sixteenths diameter steaks. And I mean, we got a whole bucket full of, I don’t know. I mean, even, you know, there’s 500 steaks or whatever, to tarp all the grains and every spring we find several of those with the real mower and as such. I had one, it was a 3,101 newer style with the DPA. Cut. And it picked up one of these stakes and it actually bent the frame. And I had to replace the frame because it was twisted because big aluminum housing, not cheap. Well, I will, uh, bring up something else. Uh, remember that, um, transact. So I was working on so, well, I mean, I kind of had to take a shortcut. I really wanted to tear it all apart, figure out how to put it all back together again. But, um, I basically found, um, I think it’s their name. I forgot their name is cutter. Something cutter, um, up in Ohio. I think they’re from, um, they sold, so I remember I posted it. Uh, STI STI or Torah or whatever. Uh, it was two grand for just the ring and pinion gears, and then it was 10 grand for the, uh, the, the whole transaction. Um, so ended up finding these guys and they have, obviously they’re used, so, um, but they’ve got the whole transaxle, uh, Oh, wow. And I was like, well, there it is. So, yeah, I just dropped it in, uh, last Friday on Friday. Where was it? Uh, Thursday, Thursday morning. I finished dropping it in and got it. Got it to go on. So tomorrow I’m planning on filling it up and testing it out and seeing if it actually worked. It meant, I don’t know if I did it correctly or not, but that transactional. It slid in. It was so easy. I was like, is that right? And simple, it slid in, I was, I was kind of. Yeah, be careful. Um, it’ll never happen again. That’s outside of that. Um, back when I was doing construction stuff, I was replacing all these clutches on the John Deere, like the 50 10 series tractor. So 52, 10 53, 10 54, 10, when you know all these different trackers and the guys had short legs and really went through some clutches. But anyway, I don’t know, I probably done, I don’t know, seven or eight of these clutches. And out of all of those, I had one that just slid together and it was on the most uneven floor. I mean, worse conditions. And when I took it apart, I was like, I’m never going to get this thing back together. And it slid right up. And then all the other ones, you know, nice work area, flat floor concrete. And then sat there for two hours trying to get them together together. Yeah. That was kind of the same thing for me. It was, I w I was manhandling this thing, picking it up off the floor and just, you know, lining it up. I had someone use a Jack to help me a little bit, but the line, it was just man handling it over and it just slid right in. And I was like, well, awesome. I don’t know whether or not I should tell this story, but when I was apprenticing, I was doing a clutch on a ranger and it was just going smooth. Got it out, took it off him, bummed it out. Yeah. Great. No problem. Flywheel off to get her machine, put her back on torque. Everything made sure that it had locked hand on the bullets cause they were open crank. All right. I’m paid attention to my journeymen. Take the transmission, put it in there. No problem. Hook up the drive shaft to go, to put it back down on the floor. And I look at my bench and there’s the clutch sitting on my bench. It’s like, crap. It went together too. I definitely did a quick sweep to make sure I had everything I was like, is that. When it goes together, go buy a letter ticket, baby. Yeah. Oh, well, if it makes you feel better, Chris, I’ll put together a pro Gator, put the transmission in the pro Gator and looked on my low roll around cart and seen the throw out. Yeah, that sucks. It’s horrible. But at least, at least he didn’t start it up, hit the pedal and nothing happened or just make some weird noise. Yeah. Yeah. Luckily, I mean, I hadn’t hooked everything back to the transmission. I just had the translation bottled it to the engine when I noticed it. So it could have been worse, but still what’d you have. Well, I mean, while we’re on stories like that are rebuilding the Kohler mode for Buffalo blue. Good. Now, man, I’m in, took it apart, rebuilt the whole thing, new heads, new everything. Put it all back on. Go turn the ignition on. No, I’m like, all right. What, what, what am I doing wrong? Go back. TechSpark if that far, if that this gotcha. I looked over it on the table and I’m like, all right, well I’ll just depression test. It doesn’t have any compression. And I’m like, how, why does it not have depression? And then I walked over there and look, I forgot to put Dan Ross back in. Oh, goodness, goodness. Just racking my brain. Like, what did I do? Such a simple little quick pop in rebuild and I’m like, I know I didn’t mess anything up. Sure enough. I just didn’t put the rods back yet to figure out damn rod. I walked away all frustrated with the lunch came by and just happened to walk by the table. And there, they were just sitting there all pretty and brand new, still in the package and everything. That’s it gets that hour of a load time or a wait time that sort of helps you clear your mind and sort of stay a little bit better. I don’t know how many times that I’ve walked away from something that I’m fighting with and then yeah, you take half hour or so. Go get a coffee, come back, sit down, think about it. And then all of a sudden that light bulb turns on and you’re ready to go again. Oh, that’s the best way to do it. Just walk away, pop on a card. And put another problem. Look at this, look at that. It is amazing. And luckily I get her, I don’t know if it was locked or not, but my mom always told me that when I was a kid, but I was so stubborn, you know, I knew more than she did, right. So I be listening half the time and I would just keep going at it and keep beating my head against the wall until finally I would walk away for five minutes and come back and say, oh, this that works. I should’ve listened. Yeah, I know, but my kids are listened to me anymore. So I suppose it’s payback. Yep. Well, we’ve been going an hour. Um, I guess we’ll call it a night if that’s all right. And we’ll do it again next week and chat about whatever y’all want to chat about. I appreciate everybody tuning in and I’ll try to get this uploaded. I was kind of surprised. I didn’t really think anybody would listen to these, but I put them out on the podcast. And I mean, the first night we had like 25 listens. So that was kinda crazy. And yeah, in a week’s time, there was like 80 or 90. Downloads. So I’ll keep putting them out. Maybe people’s enjoying them. And, but the only way to get those 80 out here, talking with us too. That’s right. Yes. So we definitely need more people getting in the group. And not that I really appreciate all y’all talking, but I’d like to hear from some other people too. So thank y’all. I hope y’all have a good night and since nobody much has worked in this. I hope you enjoy your time off and I’m going to stay warm. Yep. We’ll talk to you next week or see you in the WhatsApp group. Yep.