Working And Playing At The Amazon Golf Course, November 21st

We were working and playing at the Amazon Golf Course, Saturday, November 21st

The temperature was 84 degrees F. on a beautiful partially overcast Saturday at the Amazon Golf Course. We had a lot going on. Saturday means free golf lessons from 10:00am till noon. Leo Jones helped teach the golf students. Rodrigo and Poly finished the tile work in the showers and toilet. One worker was painting the roof, one was mowing greens,  two were rolling and packing the greens, one working on making the entrance lane more smooth, and one planting the 15 beautiful Pomarosa saplings we bought for S/ 3 soles apiece, a little less than $1 apiece.

These are some of the healthiest, nicest Pomarosa saplings we have found. They are planted on the west side of the soccer field. I am looking forward to their shade and fruit. They are part of our 2,000 trees and blooming bushes landscaping project. I want to get a new count of how many we have that are thriving. I believe it will be over 1,000.

Roofing with corrugated metal is not rocket science. It seems like just plain common sense to this old farmer, with several barn roofs back in rural Indiana, to hammer the nails into the high part of the corrugation, not in the low part where water runs down hill and into the nail hole. But metal roofing is bouncy and it is easier to nail in the valley than on the ridge. The person that nailed the roof on the clubhouse must have gotten a blood blister on his nail holding finger the first day because most of the nail holes are in the low part of the corrugation and they leak. A couple of days ago one of our crew worked with a combination of brea, (a substance similar to roofing tar) and cheese cloth to patch the leakes, and now Emerson is painting the roof with a highly reflective white paint. Besides covering the ugly black brea patches, the bright paint reflects the sunlight and makes the interior of the clubhouse several degrees cooler.

You can see in the photo above we have one of the best volleyball and soccer fields in Iquitos to play on. The new Pomarosa trees are planted on the far side of the field in the brown strip. When they grow up they will block the view of that ugly building and the neighbor’s junk.

Our sign artist Johnny Nuñes, came back to enhance the sign like I originally asked for it to be. If you don’t like the sign now, it is my fault.

At least we have a sign identifying the Amazon Golf Course so that a person passing by can know we exist, and a new visitor can find us easier.

Wildlife

In my last article, This Is What We Saw at the Amazon Golf Course On Nov 17th, there were three photos of blossoms on palm trees that I thought would open in a few days and they did. Here are two photos taken 5 days later of the blossoms that are open and being pollinated by small bees.

The bees pollinating the Palm tree blossoms are today’s wildlife observation.

Steve McAlear came all the way from Leticia by “rapido” to go to our Amazon Golf Course members meeting on Thursday and came out to inspect the golf course this Saturday.

We had another good day at the Amazon Golf Course. Meet us there next Saturday morning. The showers and toilet will be plumbed and finished and the clubhouse will be painted, including the light green trim. The grounds will be manicured.

We will be putting the finishing touches on getting ready for our post-thanksgiving turkey, noodle, dressing, trimmings, lunch on Sunday, November 29th. You are invited. Join Us For Thanksgiving Lunch At The Amazon Golf Course, November 29th.

We were working and playing at the Amazon Golf Course on Saturday November 21st

Bill Grimes is manager of the Amazon Golf Course.

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