AlterFocus365 is my attempt at completing Project 365 (a challenge to take and post a photo every day for a year)and is a way for me to change the focus in my life. I want to always try to appreciate the little things, and I want every day to contain something photo worthy. I am also anticpiating a lot of changes in the next year, and I feel like this will be a great way to document them and look back when everything is over. Hopefully throughout this project I'll also become a better photographer, and you'll enjoy witnessing the process!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Day 69: August 8, 2012
Day sixty-nine.
Okay. Since it’s getting later in the year we start when it’s dark out. With our sad little carts, you’re lucky if you get headlights. However, the awesome trade-off is that you get the watch the sunrise at work. And sometimes they are rather spectacular. #momentsilovemyjob (sorry I didn’t get a better picture but my boss was there).
Anyway, mowed tees by myself. Which was actually pretty okay, it was sort of peaceful. Except they’re doing construction on Hawk and these gigantic machines (trucked in from Quebec) are destroying Sixteen Raven to get there. I also had to wait forever for this guy to maneuver his way up (sorry I didn’t get a better picture but my other boss was there).
Later, we had ginger beef for lunch, which was swell.
Then, even later, we visited Two Hawk to deadhead and realized that not only are the petunias we planted a little later to fill the baskets in a little bit smaller, they’re actually a different (and much cooler) colour. Which is fine, no one but us will notice.
I’m sure we weeded or did something else too.
After work, I went to my sister’s house because my dad was there. We all talked for a bit. Then dad and I went to Giant Hamburger (NO LONGER GOOD), and then I took off for orientation for Apocalypse Wars. Turns out, it was way less sketchy than I was expecting it to be. Met up with a couple other volunteers, but mostly just the people who put it together. Learned a lot about the event, what it was, how they were planning on running it, how it got put together, the media coverage, the problems, ect. Basically got really stoked to go.
After we went through all the important stuff, I just hung out with them for a bit. Then eventually decided I should go home and sleep and did just that.
Day 68: August 7, 2012
Raven aration tonight/today, so when I came in for the morning meeting I was literally the only person from Raven there. And they pointed it out. Of course they did.
Anyway, mowed greens on Hawk with Allie. HAWK. Look at their silly orange flag.
Which was fun except the greens over there are giant and Hawk politics are effed up. Not a fan.
Also gigantic dragonfly- they’re out in full force.
Anyway, took a bunch of pictures because it’s so amazingly gorgeous over there and I was pretty sure it would be my last time working on that course.
Then an actual, balanced lunch. As in not stew containing potatoes, potatoes, and poato salad (yes that had happened before).
Then awesome storm rolling in over the city, and then home and just chillin.
Day 59: July 29, 2012
Today was movie day with Mark. In exchange for watching three movies of my pick, I made him cookies.
They were delicious and, like a cliche “hipster,” I totally instagram’d them.
So yeah. We… watched… movies… that’s actually it.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Remember Me
500 Days of Summer
And some Firefly.
I knew you were curious.
Happy now?
Day 55: July 25, 2012
So I was in bunkers this morning.
Got bored, so I made some bunker art. Because it’s more fun that way.
It was actually a pretty decent morning, chill, quiet.
The afternoon was super stressful, just because it seemed like “One of those days” for a couple of people, and other people were being frustratingly unhelpful to us again (but it actually worked out okay).
We mulched a huge area on the new front sign, during which I cut my knuckle pretty bad (I have a picture, but I didn’t want to spoil the bunker ones by including it), and then got it covered in mulch hair and dirt and figured I should probably go get a bandaid before stuff got in it.
Then we cut the hedge, which just, blahrhrjhbfg. For reasons. One of which, but not the only one, is that I hate hedge trimming days. I just really don’t like it.
I feel like I probably just came home, disinfected my knuckle, and went to sleep after work. Or something. Who knows?
Day 53: July 23, 2012
(So I just saw Jenn and actually got in trouble for not updating in ten days. So I need to start really fixing that. Even though I’m pretty sure it’s only her and Mark who might have noticed at all anyway…)
MONDAY!
Cut tees on Raven for the first time. With a guy who works on Raven but I’ve never worked with him before. I expected this morning to be horrible due to lack of sleep, but it actually turned out pretty swell.
Then right before lunch, look at that storm rolling in over 18. Woah.
It really wasn’t that bad. Rained pretty hard on us for like fifteen minutes right after lunch, and then we just spent the afternoon weeding? Or planting? Some shit like that. I honestly can’t remember now because nothing super significant happened.
Then I hung out with Sean! What? I KNOW. CRAZY. We went to Good Earth again. It’s like our place. Or I’m sure it would be if I really ever saw him. Also he got a haircut right before he came over there, and his hair was shorter and less messy than I’ve ever seen before. Then we went and walked around the reservoir, and were both reminded how gorgeous our city can be. We talked, and caught up, and it just made me feel really grounded in some things. I don’t know, Sean just has that effect. Probably why he’s always so busy all the time.
Anyway, then we went down to the boating school and sat on their handicapped dock (Yes, that is an important piece of information) and got in the way and put our feet in the freezing cold water and wanted to go swimming and just life.
Then some ducks fell in love with him and fought over their own poop.
My life is classy.
Day 49: July 19, 2012
So this morning was really bad for reasons that involve specific people, so I’m not going to talk about it. I feel like it’s going to be a rule to not talk bad about specific people on here because it’s not nice normally, but it’s even worse when it’s posted somewhere on the internet where anyone could run into it without them knowing.
Anyway, tournament day: I was done mowing by 7:30. Woohoo. Did the basket program, and then we planted this pretty bed! Especially exciting because it was one of those last minute “Boss man asked us to plant but we didn’t order plants oh hey the greenhouse is giving us free plants okay” beds, and it just really ties into the banana leaf circle.
Really liking the new area.
And then rapeseed on the drive home is just so beautiful because I live in Alberta. Which is one of the best and under appreciated places you could live, I think. (I am definitely biased there though).
Then Wal-Mart for a contact fitting and that was shit. Basically my appointment was at 2:30 and the fitter came in at 3:20. So fuck you WalMart, where the hell is Rod?! (Old fitter who was really fucking awesome.)
Then basically nothing else happened because I don’t really have a life.
(Actually I do and it’s really fucking awesome and I’m just trying to not make you feel bad.)
(But I still didn’t really do anything else.)
Day 39: July 9, 2012
My office.
Holes 9 and 5, actually. The weather at 5:30-8AM this morning was amazing. Then it got really hot.
I also, technically by myself but some help, mowed 10/18 holes. Yes. Annoying. Oh well.
The afternoon consisted of some weeding and some mulching.
It was, overall, a much less painful day than I had expected it to be.
Day 34: July 4, 2012
Today was actually a pretty decent day. Only normal work day of the week. We double cut all the things in the morning, and then spent literally four hours weeding the island at the clubhouse. (They’re doing construction up there, and we spent our five minute snack and water break watching them work).
And then another hour weeding other things.
I don’t even remember what I did that night, I was so exhausted from not sleep by the time I got home.
I do remember being so excited to shower that I didn’t end up going to say goodbye to Alix.
Then sleep.
Day 25: June 25, 2012
Monday morning was super pretty.
Mowing by myself, I got this nice bruise. Massive piece of my thigh is swollen and [still] throbs when I walk. Beauty.
In the afternoon, we dug up one of our beds because they are doing consturction there. Moved all of the plants, and actually made the clubhouse look amazing. So something good came of it, and it was a very productive afternoon.
Then I came home and feel asleep at like 6:30pm.
Day 1: June 1, 2012
I’m actually starting posting a few days late because I’ve had a pretty busy weekend. This is Hole Ten at work during a frost delay the other week. Some of the views from the Back Nine are wonderful, and in the mornings the river behind the course (and the ponds on it) steam up.
