We have the stalwarts of the Field of Dreams to thank for quick action, but time is running out. First though, thanks to Tim O’Shea, Laurie Shusted, Les Will, Mike White, Perry Myers, Mike Strombeck and Clay Taft for showing up and accomplishing a lot today. Here’s what we did:
Fixed leak in Football/Soccer Main
Filled the open trench in the SW corner of Soccer
Set most of the valve covers at the right grade
Thanks to Bert Wickey, most of the margins are groomed
Strung the line to lime around the to-be-sodded areas (Soccer and FH/L)
Rewired the Soccer/FH/L control box to just 12 stations
Programmed the Soccer/FH/L sprinklers to pre-sodding settings
Verified the second line leak is not a leak, but just an accumulation
Replaced the damaged electrical conduit box (in the dark!)
So, with that much to be proud of, we have great hope that tomorrow (Tuesday) can be just as productive. It’s our last chance!
1) Pick up sticks and rocks in the fields, starting with Football Practice but also Soccer, and carry to the piles near pole vault… THIS IS CRITICAL!
2) Lime the field borders to be sodded (Jim’s planning to do this during Zero Period)
3) Verify all valve covers are set at the right elevations
4) Make last ADS head replacements with 36S heads (at least five to go - don’t forget the flow regulators)
5) Make last head adjustments (add flow control)
6) Clean and replace sticking valve (Soccer #1) (TIM - this one is the analog of the other one you restored)
And then, as a demonstration that we need to secure the site (10-12 hours of fence post and stringing work), as Les and I were leaving the site after sunset tonight, we saw a young man with a helmet and a bicycle start to ride off the back of Pole Vault onto the dirt of Football Practice. We yelled at him to not ride across, so he got off and started walking his bike across. We yelled again, louder, and gave him a frontal Field of Dreams lecture; he defended himself by saying “this is the first of heard of this. I’ve been riding my bike here for years.” We made it clear that doing so in the months to come would cause great damage, not to mention generate intense emotions like what he’d just witnessed.
So, we need to 7) Strenghthen the eastern fenceline. If you can come out any day and a) pull T-poles from the western fenceline (by future softball), b) pound T-poles in (at 5-ft intervals, in between the existing U-poles, across the top of track, starting at the damaged Gum ranch entrance), c) harvest the fence from the western border and d) remount it on top of the existing fence, you will help us button the site up. We need to have the site secured by Friday or Saturday, at the latest. The fence tools & ties are in Clay’s bin (Clay, Coach U, and I have keys). Call my cell at 806-7379 anytime you need me to open up - I can probably be there within 15 minutes this week.
It’s down to this. Let’s finish it.
Jim Hartley
Project Believer
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