If you are a regular blog reader, you know that Darla tried to take down a chair from the cabinets in the garage last week as she was perched precariously on top of a an ice chest and when the chairs shifted, the ice chest slipped out from under her and she fell rolling her foot underneath her. Her foot was bothering her during the week and she had black marks between her middle toes and along the instep of her left foot. I told her to go to the doctor, but when her boss finally told her that he had done something similar and when he finally went into the doctor, they found a broken bone in his foot, she went. Of course, she had broken a bone that runs on the outside of her foot to the small toe. Initially the bone was broken and pushed so far out that they thought they might need to do surgery. They decided after consultation with a podiatrist, that they could cast it for six weeks and see how that goes. She is supposed to stay off it, but she was at a Silpada party on Friday night, at the salon yesterday and has another party today. There is no keeping a good woman down. She will have to pick a purple dress for Josh and Laura's wedding.
Funny that Darla had to get the word from her boss before she acted. My typist has an 8 year old son that I met once. He was quite impressed that I was his Mom's boss and got a big kick out of my corner office. He got in trouble recently for using his middle finger. A little girl had flipped him off in school and he found the "bird" fascinating and used it on his Mom at dinner. She was not impressed and had a discussion with him about how it meant a bad word and it was the same as saying it. He thought about that and kept asking his mom about different fingers and if they meant bad words. He stewed on it for a few days and came in to his Mom and asked her if he took his shoes off and held up his middle toe, if that was a bad word. She said, "I'm not sure, I'll have to think about that, but don't do it." He said, "Well, Mom, why don't you wait until tomorrow and ask your boss and then we'll both know." Kids.
It has been raining this week, actually doing a good impression of Seattle weather. We have received about an inch of rain out of this local storm. It did manage to mess up our golf tournament. We have a 54 hole individual tournament going on and were able to play in wet, rainy conditions yesterday. It rained hard last night and the course had standing water today and the decision was made to postpone the event. The third round is supposed to be next Saturday. The TD decided to add a date on May 16th, which has many of the players in an uproar as they have weddings, graduations, etc that day. It is Darla's birthday on may 16th and we have plans to be in Napa that weekend. The problem I have is that I played my BEST tournament round of golf yesterday and lead my flight by three strokes going into next week.
It was a static rain yesterday with a high temperature of about 60 degrees. It wasn't cold, but we had to do everything we could to keep our hands and equipment dry. I have a large Golf Pride umbrella which attaches to my cart and I hang a towel under the umbrella from the support and I will hang two golf gloves under the umbrella to keep them dry. I kept my hood for the clubs up and unzipped the top to access the clubs and it was a pretty good day overall. I parred the first five holes before running into a bogey train where I bogeyed three holes in a row. I did manage a par on the tough number nine which is the number 2 handicap hole for a 39 on the front. I went out in the steady rain and birdied number ten, bogeyed 11, parred 12, 13 and 14, bogeyed 15 and then finished birdie-par-par for a 36 and a total of 39+36=75. It all came together on one day and now may fall apart because I can't play the last date. This is a major tournament with trophies and bragging rights. Darla has offered to let me play on Saturday the sixteenth and then meet up with them for dinner Saturday night. I feel like I'm in a no win situation and the board will discuss the tournament at a board meeting tomorrow night. I've already won $30 for my tournament low net of 65 yesterday. It seems like kismet that I end up in this situation. Perhaps I shouldn't take my golf so seriously. Fat chance, eh?
It actually ended up being a pretty nice afternoon as the rain stopped and the sun broke out for a little while. We have two days of rain left in this storm and it should be back up to 80 degrees by mid-week.
We had a speaker at church today, a 26 year old man from Sydney, Australia that was born without arms and legs. He is a handsome, gregarious guy and totally on fire for the Lord. He was born to a pastor and his wife and attempted to kill himself at age 8 by drowning himself in his tub, but he couldn't do it as he didn't want to put guilt on his parents. We've known for a month that Nick Vujicic was coming to preach. He is a funny guy. He told the story of how kids will always come up to him and stare. One little guy boldly asked him what happened to him. Nick said, "Cigarettes, tell all your friends!" He also had his handler put him up in the overhead compartment on a plane and close the door. When the next person opened the compartment he yelled at them for not knocking first. Another time he had a girl staring at him at a stoplight. She could only see his head and he did a complete 360 in the seat and she drove off terrified. The result of Nick's testimony was a packed church with even the balcony being filled (We have room for 300 in the church). He had literally hundreds of people come to Christ at the end of the service after his powerful testimony.
Darla is managing with her disability and is at a jewelry show today. She probably puts too much stress on her foot as she has a walking boot that slips onto the cast using velcro. She uses her crutches, but I'm sure is using her foot more than she should. She said this morning that she hoped her doctor wasn't at church because she is supposed to be staying at home. I say this with her out with her truck at a party. Luckily, her foot that she broke is her left foot as she is still able to drive.
Dad came through his surgery pretty well and is feeling the pain of the surgery on his ear and especially behind his ear where they took skin to reform his ear. the doctor seemed a little confused and asked Dad where the cancer was again. When Dad finally got him directed to the correct ear, the surgery went well. Dad is concerned that they got all of the cancer as the doctor seemed a bit off. I know he sees the doctor again on Tuesday where the guy will probably want to look at his back or something before dad points to his ear. This social medicine in Canada is a little scary.
I did manage to get reservations for our trip to Mexico in November. we will be there from November 15-22nd and I look forward to a vacation with my brothers, their wives and Dad and Shirley. It will be a memory maker I'm sure. Well that's it for this week. I think I'll take advantage of a break in the weather and go mow the lawn. I hope you are all well
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