Okay. I will get to the blog entry tomorrow night. I played two days of golf and got home after 6 PM tonight, so no entry tonight. I cherish my marriage and will get to this tomorrow night so check back. You can see a montage of photos, some of Alicia's baby shower, some of the new roof and the re-stained pool deck and some of the irrepressible Miss Samantha from a play date this weekend with her Mom. Ciao for now.
Monday May 3rd, 2010
Yes it was a crazy busy weekend and week as I had a two day golf tournament over the weekend and we had dinner with one of my clients at their home in Serrano on Saturday night. On top of all that, Darla had a baby shower with her sister, the roof was finally put on during the week and finished today and the back patio was stained. Jennifer sent me a new picture of Sammy at play with one of her cats and I added that as well.
Whew, I'm tired just thinking about it. The pictures from Alicia's shower were taken on Darla's I Phone and turned out pretty good. The picture of her with the diaper was from a game where the girls melt a candy bar into the diaper in the microwave and Alicia had to pick the candy bar by examining the contents and even sniffing. I suppose that somehow prepares her for motherhood, or simply is a reason for her friends to laugh at her.
Saturday night we had dinner with my agents, Jeff and Linda, at their home in Serrano. They bought the house form the bank and it belonged to a 25 year old man of middle east descent who was handed the keys and the title to his home by daddy and spent two years racking up untold bills, taking out numerous home equity loans on the house and getting into the party scene and drug scene before finally losing the house to the bank. Big surprise that a spoiled middle eastern boy would screw up that badly. Jeff and Linda have spent the year that they have owned the house remodeling and have a beautiful 5400 square foot home with a showpiece 1400 square foot master suite. Linda fixed a marvelous dinner of seafood pasta in a light Alfredo sauce and we drank wine and enjoyed our visit immensely. As Darla said, when it's our turn to have you over to our house, we'll take you out to dinner. We are not social climbers at all, but this house was incredible.
My golf this weekend was amazing. It was nice Saturday, low eighties and I took advantage of the conditions and shot a 41+39=80 and shot the low gross in my flight for a $35 daily prize. Both Boyd and Bob struggled and I was proud to hang on and shoot a good score. Bob shot 86 and Boyd shot 44 on the front and left after 9 holes. Our treasurer came up to me before the round and handed me an envelope for $32 from the master's tournament skins last month. I birdied number 14 and won $28 on Saturday. Sunday was a completely different day and it was WINDY, with gusts up to 40 MPH. We had a lot of dropouts and WDs during the round and some big scores. one guy went from a 81 on Saturday to a 99 on Sunday. I struggled in the wind, even dunking one in the pond in front of the 10th tee which is only 180 yards to carry. The wind was dead in our face and I popped it up enough to have the wind kill it and dejectedly watched the splash. I had a very uneven day that sort of matched on my scorecard the direction of the wind. I had an 8, three sixes, two birdies and a 43+43=86. I also won $22 in skin money and went from third net on Saturday to tied for second and maintaining my lead by one stroke on the gross side. My flight pays one gross payout and the rest net. I can't win the net barring an implosion by the leader, a 16 that shot 82 and 85 for a -9 score. I'm even par and tied with three other golfers. I have my eyes on the gross prize. I got pushed into the B Flight this tournament, which ranges from my 11 up to 17 handicappers. One of the other 11's was one stroke behind me gross Saturday. He shot 14 over on the front nine yesterday, posted his card on the scoreboard with a large WD written on it and walked off the course. I'm looking forward to Saturday. The driver is working well right now.
I went out with several members of the golf committee of the Insurance Agents and Brokers group that I am on the board of Thursday and we played Lincoln Hills, the Hills course. I drove the first green, a 295 yard par four and started with a two putt birdie on my way to a 39+41=80. Bob joined me and we had a ball in the 80 degree temperatures.
Friday night is our annual fundraiser, a Sacramento River cats AAA baseball game. We will present a $5,000 check to the Ronald McDonald House NorCal charity and throw out the first pitch. It is $1 hot dog and ice cream night and Jeff and Linda will be my guests at the game. Darla has a party for Silpada and will bag out on us. I hope to get some pictures down on the field of us presenting the check. I set up the fundraiser this year and was going to throw out the first pitch, but the First VP has a 10 year old son and he wants him to see dad throw out the first pitch. I was happy to accommodate him on that and will boo lustily if he doesn't get it over the plate.
The roofers were out today and installed the gutter guards on the house. The city inspector was also out and signed off on the final roof inspection. They did a nice job and cleaned up well after themselves. Well....actually I went up in the attic on Saturday to get something down and a pile of dirt and debris rained down on me when I opened the pull down stairs. The roof was completely removed including the plywood and alot of the debris remains in the attic. I will take a shop vac up there in the coming weeks and clean off all of our belongings that are now caked with a layer of sawdust and tar paper.
The deck turned out very nice, but there is a defined color change in the pavement next to the house and I've asked the landscaper to come out and re stain that area. He wasn't happy as I worked him pretty hard on the price and he was contracted for only one coat of stain, but already had to put on two coats to get the color right. I think he was planning to skimp close to the house, but it is almost a palpable line of dark and light stain. I wouldn't leave it like that if I did the work and I won't let him either. I owe him $750, so he is motivated to finish the job right. The stain is a very mottled and variegated look and really what I wanted when I stained it, but it always looked like paint when I finished the job.
Darla and I have contracted with our friends who own Auburn Painting to repaint the house. With a new toupee on the roof, we decided to have the face lifted as well. Darla and I are arm wrestling over colors right now. The house is currently a blue gray base with white and cobalt blue trim. I want to stick with essentially the same colors, but change the window trim to the cobalt blue now that we have white gutter. Darla is okay with the blue, but wants a tan base color. She usually wins in these things. Jeff with Auburn painting won't be able to start for two weeks, so we have time to fins the right colors.
David sent me a great video of the implosion of Texas Stadium. Check it out at this website: http://www.dallascowboys.com/farewell/Texas_Stadium_Implosion.cfm You can move your position around and watch the demolition in a 360 degree arc from the middle of the stadium. Cool stuff.
Well, that's it for this week. I hope everyone is doing well. I think often of Dad and Shirley on their trip and hope that they aren't without water or have an invasion of mice or some other calamity on board the ship. They do manage to have some interesting vacations. When there shower leaked at the condo in Mexico last year, I thought "Oh no, here we go." but they managed to pull it together and have a great trip. Here's praying that their trip is going smoothly. Be well. Ciao.
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