may 25th, 2013

We are going to have most of Memorial Day weekend off. The exception being Sunday night. On Sunday night we have to go in and tear down the stage that is on the field. Over the weekend there will be a kids carnival at the stadium that we (thankfully) do not have to work. We had to help set up a stage on the field, which is a pain. To get a stage onto the field we have to lay down pieces of plywood on the grass so the truck with the stage on it does not rut up the grass. Laying down the plywood road takes forever and is a lot of running back and forth picking up pieces of plywood. After getting the stage onto the field we edged the warning track, patched what we had not patched from the high school games, and mowed as much of the field as we could. This week has been a pretty laid back week because it rained during the most the day on Wednesday and Thursday. But we were somehow able to get four high school games played during the week. I ended up working the games on Wednesday. The kids carnival has set us back however. We have a lot to do on Tuesday before the game so hopefully it stops raining. We pulled the tarp at least eight times last week alone, so I got a lot of experience doing that. Pulling tarp is a difficult task and requires a lot of people to do, but we are getting pretty quick at getting it on the field before the field becomes unplayable. We have a four game home stand coming up next week, so next week will be pretty routine for us.