Why I'll Never Join Any Retirement Golf Communities
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Retirement golf communities are definitely not for me. They may be a good for of exercise, but what have you achieved at the end of the day? Well...you may have lost a few ounces and a few golf balls. Your blood pressure has soared each time you hit the ball into a bunker, and you're sure that the man who beat you must be cheating somehow.
Now, I have a better way to get exercise from a golf course. Get the cheapest alternative to a golf-club cart that you can tow behind you. Here in Australia we have cheap carts that we tow behind us while we're shopping.
Spend the day going round the golf course picking up lost golf balls, then sell them at the end of the day. Now you have got lots of exercise from your version of golf, and a little extra spending money as well, simply by recycling a few golf balls. Ah! So recycling can give me some exercise. Let's see if there are any other opportunities.
Here we can get a refund when we return glass bottles. The government is talking about making it compulsory for drink companies to give a few cents refund on plastic bottles as well. So I only need to walk down the road, towing my trusty cart behind me, and pick up everything that will give me a refund.
Beer cans also litter the roadside. Perhaps I could have an aluminum can crusher on the cart, and get a little cash for recycling cans as well?
What other exercise could I get from recycling? Well, here in Perth in Western Australia we have many nature reserves. Each year a big effort is made by friends of the reserves to remove all the lupins that swamp the native plants. They also put too much Nitrogen back into the soil, which damages native plants that prefer Nitrogen-starved soil. Can you see the light come on above my head?
My organic garden is full of vegetables that like plenty of Nitrogen. Why not spend a few hours each day with my trusty cart, helping the volunteers to weed out the lupins. I might even impress them with my helpfulness by volunteering to cart away some that they have pulled out! When I get home there is even a little more exercise in building a stack.
The secret of building a high stack is to keep the corners high, then the sides, and the middle will mostly take care of itself. I have built trailer-loads of hay up to twice my height that way, and they didn't fall down as the trailer rocked across the field on the way to the big stack.
So don't look for me in any of the retirement golf communities. I have better ways to get my exercise.
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