Jennifer's shower was a big hit on Saturday. Of course, I was out on the golf course, but I saw the pictures and heard the stories. Darla and I and Diane and her husband, Bob, went in together on a crib and changing table for the baby's room. Diane ordered the crib online and set up to have it delivered this week to Las Vegas. As it turned out, the crib was delivered on Friday and John arrived home to find the boxes on their porch. He called us to find out what was going on and we told him it was a surprise. He offered to put the crib together and send pictures to us to put in the package for Jennifer. Darla cut out the pictures and put them on a page with the e-mail from John. When Jennifer opened the package and saw the crib pictures, she was thrilled, but when Darla told her to look closer at the pictures and she realized the crib was in the baby's room at their apartment, she started to cry. She couldn't even read John's e-mail to the ladies and her friend, Sara, had to step in and take over. Sara is a great friend of Jennifer's and has two little girls already, so she bought Jennifer a baby monitor as well as a whole bag of things that new Moms need..things like thermometers for under the baby's arm, burp cloths, her own hand made extract for stretch marks, chlorine free diapers, etc., etc. Jennifer thoroughly enjoyed herself and has about $500 of gift cards to Babies R Us and Baby Gap and places like that. She will be busy when she returns to Vegas shopping. Darla's sister, Alicia, and their Mom bought Jennifer the mattress for the crib and she will be able to buy some bed clothes for the crib with her plastic money. Diane is shipping her gifts to her as she had so much she couldn't take it on the plane. Between Texas and here, Jennifer is well set up to welcome baby Samantha into the world.
Jennifer stayed with us last night and, as I write this, Darla and she are on the way to the airport. Jennifer has a 9:40 flight to Vegas on US Air. I paid for her flight home and set her up on US Air. Southwest is great, but it is a cattle call and a pregnant lady doesn't need to be jostled around in that fight for open seating. US Air has reserved seating and will let her pre-board as well. Jennifer and I went out to lunch on Thursday and ate at Fat's Dim Sum Bar in Folsom. We had a great lunch and a great visit. Last night we sat watching some TV and the football game and Jen was trying to get me to feel Samantha kick. She never did for me, but Darla was able to feel a kick as they were sitting there. Jennifer looked over at me at one point and said, "Dad, do you think all of your hair will turn gray some day?" I looked at her and said, "Why, do you plan on moving back in?"
I think Darla and I will head to Vegas over Thanksgiving and visit the kids. We thought about heading up to Canada, but with our Hawaii trip in January, we wanted to be able to spend some time with Jennifer and John and Thanksgiving will be a good time for that.
I played in our club's Invitational this weekend and invited Pete from my office out to play. He does not have a handicap and is probably about a 20. We shot 35+37=72 in the 2 man scramble format. Pete played well and even made a 20 foot putt for birdie on our last hole that saved us both $10 as we had a bet with Steve Matthews and his cousin on the match. They also shot 35+37=72 and we finished well out of the money. We played in the Peoria flight and finished with a net 72. We had two bogeys, two birdies and the rest pars. The course is in great shape as they punched the greens about a month ago and it is in good shape. The course superintendent scalped the fairways last week so he could overseed for the winter. The lunch afterward was great with tri-tip, baked beans, salad and rolls for lunch. The chef at our club was an old Army chef and seasoned the tri-tip on Friday in rock salt, olive oil and marinade and let it sit until Sunday. It was fantastic. I also played on Saturday with Bob, Boyd and a friend of Bob's who was in from Minden, Nevada for the Invitational. I shot 42+41=83 on Saturday. The club gave away hats that said "RGC Invitational" as tee prizes.
This week is the Open meeting where we will vote for the club officers on Thursday night. I am running for President this year and also adopting a change to the By Laws whereby we will no longer pay the board members a salary, but pay for selected green fees as a perk. As president, I will receive 12 green fees a year. It is equivalent to about a $500 perk. We were concerned about running afoul of the IRS by paying salaries to our board and we are, after all, a golf club so what better perquisite that paid golf?
I have the Insurance Day tomorrow at the Sacramento Convention Center. The booth came in on Friday and we will be out there this afternoon to get the booth set up with our flyers and giveaways. I have to go over to Home Depot this PM and pick up the gift certificates. I'll buy 4 $50 gift certificates. This year I'm bringing the whole staff to the I Day. They will meet us there for lunch. The California Insurance Commissioner is speaking this year. After lunch, they will all tour the booths and put their business cards in for the drawings. The exhibitors give away some pretty nice prizes with a lot of gift certificates, but also I-Pods and portable DVD players and such. It will be fun for the gang this year.
I mowed the lawn this week and decided to vacuum up the leaves that fill my yard from the park across the street. The leaf vacuums are great, but always have iffy bags that attach. I was just about finished and vacuuming up the last of the leaves when the bag blew off the vacuum and the fine particles of leaves all blew up my nose and into my throat. I was literally gagging over the mess and hacking up some disgusting bile from my throat. I must have ended up scratching my throat pretty bad, because I'm still hoarse and people think I have a cold. I was bent over gasping for breath after the incident and looked up to see three little kids in the park across the street laughing their little buns off and pointing at me. Luckily I'm old and chasing them and pummeling them wasn't an option. I'll tell you, the life of Lyon is sometimes more than I can take.
I hope all are well. I'm off to Detroit and the Managers meeting for BW next week. I leave on Wednesday and will be back Sunday night. I'll be in the office Monday and then Darla and I have a week at the Tahoe Beach and Ski condos in Lake Tahoe. I look forward to some down time with Darla. Ciao.
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