Satellite Flower Bed Part Of Mini Golf Course

Satellite Flower Bed Part Of Mini Golf Course AG WORLD 32-3-22 Bill and Lilley Glebe of Pickardville, Alberta found a creative and decorative use for an old satellite dish, turning it in to a raised flower bed, which serves as an integral part of their farmyard mini golf course. The couple used recycled stuff to turn their front lawn into a 9-hole mini golf course so that they can enjoy with their grandchildren. Bill made a stand to hold the dish up at an angle, filled it with dirt, and planted marigolds. Golfers hit the ball up a chute that runs up the front to a hole at center of dish. A few of the other obstacles in Glebe's mini-golf course include: hitting the ball through the teeth on their antique horse-drawn hay rake, through the wheels on their horse-drawn hay mower, and under the pedals of an old bike. "We wanted to make something out of nothing and I think we succeeded," Lilley says. "We sure had lots of fun doing it. The only thing not recycled is the flowers." To officially open the course this summer, the family is planning to hold the first "Glebe Masters Cup," with their two sons and daughter-in-laws and two grandchildren. They will vie for a recycled trophy (one of their son's old ones), and ad a new engraved plate to it each year. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Lilly and Bill Glebe, RR 1, Pickardville, Alberta, Canada T0G 1W0 (ph 780 349-2761).

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