My new job

Hard work, no pay

After being retired for nearly a year, I started a new job today. I'm on the volunteer staff for the MVP Open disc golf tournament at Maple Hill Disc Golf. This is a beautiful course and an amazing tournament. And it looks like we're going to get some nice weather when the tournament begins on Friday.

Today, a group of us started gussying up the course for the weekend with tents, banners, and fancy out-of-bounds walls. During the tournament, I'll be spotting discs on two different holes. It should be an interesting week.

A taste of Maple Hill

Here's my son Ben teeing off from the white tee on hole 1 earlier this month:

 Hole 1, white tee. Maple Hill Disc Golf, Leicester, Massachusetts.

The pros tee off from farther back and throw directly across both the Christmas tree field and the pond:

Map of Maple Hill, hole 1, Leicester, Massachusetts.

I would be lucky to make it to the near edge of the pond off the tee. But I saw a couple of pros practicing today make it well over the pond and into the Christmas trees (more than 475 feet!). It's astonishing to see shots like that in real life.