Muddy Muddy Muddy!

On the work agenda this week:
    Dig a drainage pond
    Grade the new bay so water drains to the pond
    Install irrigation system
    Hire more people

I've mentioned our adventures in hiring of late.  I guess not everyone has fun slogging around in mud.  I took this picture to hang on our booth at the local job fair this week.

Can you handle your shoes looking like this? 

Yes, okay? Let's talk.

Why do my shoes look this way? Rain.  This New Mexican is beginning to think that the tornado that blew through town a whil back transported us somewhere else.  We have had a lot of rain of late a lot more than our annual 8-10 inches.  This is really impedeing my construction project.

For example digging our drainage pond.  We have been trying to dry this area out, but everytime it starts to get dry enough to do the work, it rains again.  Yesterday our maintence guy pulled out the big loader to try to dig it even though it was still kind of wet, since the forecast was for rain today.  His 10 ton loader broke my underground irrigation pipes like spaghetti.  Joy, I spent the rest of they day trying to figure out where pipes were that were put in 15 or more years ago.

Today was very wet and rainy, everyone but us poor salaried fools got to go home.  We came back from lunch to find that the maintence guy decided to work on digging this pond again after all the rain.  This is what we found.

Yes, it is buried to it axles in clay and sand. Seriously it weighs ten tons. My boss was a bit annoyed.  He kept saying over and over, I told him NOT to try and dig the pond today.  Why did he do that? 

So I explained something to him I was suprised he didn't know.

1. The quickest way to get a man to do something is do emphatically tell him not to.


2. The next best way to get a man to do something is to make him think it was his idea.


3. If all of those tactics fail, get another man to ask him, they respond better than when I female asks

In any case we had fun watching them get it out.  One of my coworkers wanted to set up lawn chairs and watch, he also wanted to have pennents that said "Go Mud!"  Another wanted score cards. At one point he had that loader wiggling like it was dancing, I gave him a 10.   They did finally extract the thing, and somehow managed to not break any more pipes.  It did require some serious shovel power, however.

So, you want a job with us?  Seriously it's not that bad, for the life of me I cannot figure out why our inventory manager insists on calling the place SNAFU Nursery.