It is the first REAL rain of the season with over 2 inches coming down. The weather man will say less than an inch, but I'm out draining my pool and know how much extra water is now in the pool. It has rained pretty solidly since last night and we postponed our Golf Invitational tournament from today until next Sunday because of the weather.
I have added a few pictures, some of the rainstorm to let you see what I have to deal with every Fall what with a grove of oak trees in the park across from us and the prevailing winds blowing onto my property. On windy, wet days like today, the leaves fall and blow up onto my roof and over into the side yard and back yard and, yes, even into the pool. The deluge of leaves lasts from the first storm of the season until about the middle of November and clogs up the street gutters, drains, gardens, bushes, front walks, entryways and every definable space near our home. For a neatnick like me, it's a difficult time, but with Prozac and ten years of experience, I'm learning to let it go. I have the hose attached to the faucet on the pool pump and I'm draining the pool now.
I also added a few more pictures of our Vegas trip and a few that Darla has gleaned from other blogs of Cal Poly students in Rome that feature David in them. She talked to David on Skype this morning and will be in Italy herself in a about a month with a girlfriend from work. She asked me to go, but with two kids in school at Cal Poly and one on an international jaunt through Italy and France, the pocketbook is a little bare at times.
Darla and I slept in this morning, letting the lilting sounds of rain pounding the roof above our heads lull us to sleep and on into the morning. I watched several football games, mostly leaving the channel on the NFL Red Zone channel that switches to any game where a team is in the red zone and shows all scoring plays. It's an interesting way to watch football, but actually fairly entertaining if you are in Fantasy Football and aren't really set on watching any particular game that's on at the moment.
I did make it out between raindrops yesterday and got in a game of golf. The forecast showed the heavier rain today and boy were they right. We had a shower right before we teed off at 9AM and the rain stayed away until we finished. Strangely, the rain started up again as we were loading our clubs back in the car. We all had our rain gear on and had our clubs covered with the rain hoods, but it turned out we didn't need it. I continued my spate of good play and shot a one over par 37 on the front side before settling down to a more normal 42 on the back for a 79. I beat both Boyd (80) and Bob (82), but Pamas shot 71, with a matching 37 on the front and a 34 on the back. That little runt can play golf. I was recently lamenting that my 20 recent scores didn't include any scores in the 70's and now I've shot 79 three straight games.
The picture of Samantha with the little shit zu (Well that is phonetically correct) was taken at the Korean restaurant and when our name got called, we told Samantha to give the puppy a hug goodbye. She was apparently confused and surprised the lady with the dog with a big hug. It was cute.
I talked to Dad and to Jennifer and they were able to get together on Friday at 3 PM for a visit with Samantha and then John picked her up for his weekend. Dad and Shirley and Jennifer and Michael then went out to dinner together at the Cheesecake Factory. I talked to Dad on Friday when Jennifer was there having cocktails with them, but haven't talked to either of them since.
I texted Randy in response to a text from him after the Texas Rangers made the World Series. He was hoping that the San Francisco Giants could make it so he could raz me during the Series. Well, SF defeated Philly last night and Randy and I have a box of pro V1s bet on the outcome of the Series. It starts Wednesday night in San Francisco and should be worth a few jabs back and forth.
The Manager's meeting is coming up the week of November 1st. I fly out to Detroit on Tuesday (Election Day) and return home Saturday night the 6th. My office has done really well this year, continuing on from a stellar 2009 and I look forward to getting back to Detroit and sitting down with my boss to discuss the future. We have Anthony in the office as one of the top ten underwriters in the company and Peter now as an Underwriting Manager and one of the top 20 in new business in the company. We are doing well and I have my eye on getting our premiums up over $20,000,000 in the next three years and into a Division 2 office level. We are the Gold Branch for Division 3, but that kind of feels like winning the AAA championship in baseball, I'm ready for the big leagues.
I also have a picture of young Lucas, my nephew courtesy of Alicia and Don. He is growing up fast and can now turn over by himself, lift his head and all of that baby stuff they do. He is also still at that stage where he'll be sitting staring at nothing and just spit up all over himself and anyone near him. I let Darla and Earl and Frances sit with him and I watch from a safe distance.
Well, another NFL game awaits and there is the unmistakable smell of pork tenderloin wafting through the air and this after Darla made corn chowder for lunch. I may have to work out a bit harder at the gym tomorrow, but I love rainy days. I hope you are all well sated and happy. Ciao.
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