I'm glad you got the golf course mostly fixed. I'm presuming there are bolted flanges and electrical connections yet to finish. Those flanges always seem to take significant effort with a bar or two getting the damn things lined up. Once you get the third bolt started you are in business.

I am into water conservation and I honestly believe that every person in the Colorado River drainage should be. Water is measured by the drop here. I also shower mostly. Once in a while my bones and joints get to aching and a bath can feel soooo good. That's way more about personal pleasure rather than bathing for me.

Water conservation was a part of our politics here this fall. We are coming up on the expiration of the 'Colorado Compact' that is a treaty that specifies who gets what.

This will surprise you (not). California gets the most. If anybody is left with the short end of the stick it's Mexico. The Colorado doesn't run to the Gulf of California anymore, the delta is completely dry.

Anyway there was some (dry) mud slung around about water and how to make it go farther. One thing that is gaining traction is to prohibit the export of alfalfa hay. We are exporting hundreds of thousands of gallons of water to Saudi, England and Europe. People there have gotten to like the taste of milk and beef and raise their hay in Arizona. It's not a little dab, either. I'm pretty familiar with the Saudi farm (it's owned offshore) and it is a monstrous operation that is all in hay.

So water is important. Shower with a friend, indeed.

Here's hoping your flanges all line up and the indicators you left on the electrical connections are still there...