77 degrees with high thin clouds

Sorry that the blog is late. I actually tried to work on it from home yesterday, but the site was having problems and I finally gave up. I stayed in Roseville yesterday as we had the Insurance Golf Day in the afternoon at Sierra View Country Club. The Roseville Golf Club also had our annual David Oxley Junior Golf tournament in the morning at Diamond Oaks and I went over to help out marshalling the under-11 9 holers. David Oxley was a junior golfer who also worked in the cart barn at Diamond Oaks. He was killled on a camping trip back in the 70's and we have had an annual tournament in his honor ever since. Diamond Oaks and Sierra View are virtually side-by-side in Roseville and I was able to help out with the junior tournament in the morning and make it over in plenty of time to warm up, eat lunch and play in the Insurance tourney.

The weather was awesome, a little overcast in the morning with a light breeze and a high temperature of 77 degrees. We are being blessed with some Spring-like temperatures here in the middle of June. We deserve it after all of the rain that we endured in the Winter months.

The kids at the junior golf tournament always amaze me at how accomplished they are. There are a few beginners that play, but there was one 11 year old, who drove the ball a mile. He actually played in the Roseville Amatuer and shot a 75 from the tips. I talked to his Dad and he said that he has him play with the top amateurs in the area, but also has him occasionally play with his own age group. He shot a 37 on the front nine.

I was asked to marshall on the par five tenth hole. The hole has a crest where you scale a hill and then work down the hill to the green. You cannot tell if the landing area is clear from the tee box, so they had me stand out on the top of the hill and signal when it was clear to hit. These little kids really bomb the ball and were playing from the red tees. I picked out a spot behind the large oak tree on the left center of the fairway and would signal that they could tee off and then take shelter behind the tree. The problem was that there was an ant hill at the base of the tree that I couldn't see until I felt the ants working their way from my tennis shoes up my legs. When I finally realized that I was being used as a new ant hill, I did the fire dance in the fairway. It took me two hours to rid myself of ants. I had ants on my shirt, in my hair, on my hat and in other places that will go unmentioned. I was telling the story to our president when I came in from my duty and he said, "No shit." as he knocked several ants off my shoulders and hat.

I made it out to the Insurance golf tournament and continued to find ants crawling on me as well as a spider that my playing partner picked out of my hair. I was like Euell Gibbons, just living in nature and eating bark off of trees. Our team shot a respectable 60 in the scramble tournament which won us a hearty "attaboy" as the winners shot 53 and 48!! respectively. I was in the third to last group through hole number 12, which is a 185 yard par three. I hit a 4 iron that ran low and hit the ground about 20 yards short of the green but kept rolling up and onto the green and to about six feet of the hole. I was the closest of the day to that point at 6'8" and on tap to win the $250 gift certificate to a local golf shop. Unfortunately, Caleb Summerhays was behind me and put his tee shot 5'10" away to claim the only prize on the hole. Caleb has a cousin who plays on the PGA tour (Brad Summerhays) and an Uncle on the senior tour (Bruce Summerhays). His 17 year old sister has a golf scholarship to BYU and his brother just missed qualifying for the US Open by two shots. I played golf with Caleb last Wednesday and he "struggled" to a 75. I did manage to win a $50 gift certificate to Home Depot as well as a wind jacket from the pro shop in the raffle.

Daniel is up at the first of three football camps this Summer. This week he is up at the University of Nevada Reno until Thursday and next week he will be tent camping at Woodcreek from Monday until Wednesday and then be at a two-day camp in Sacramento. At least it is keeping him busy. I have a job for him when he gets back on Friday as I have to get some furniture out of storage for the office and I'll pay him $50 and buy him lunch to come down and move it into our office.

We will finally make it up to Almanor on the weekend of July 1st. I have both July 3rd and 4th off and we have a spot at the Almanor Resort and will bring our jet ski up for a long weekend. Darla is planning to be up at Almanor this weekend, but I have the Net Amateur tournament at Diamond Oaks.

I read today where a sunbather was killed yesterday on the beach in Oxnard, when two lifeguards accidentally drove their SUV over her head as they were patrolling the beach. And the concern is melanoma?

This is necessarily short today as I must get to work and get caught up on the mail, phone calls and minutia that pile up on a day out of the office. A Day out is never free. Take care. Ciao.