The temperature actually hit 100 degrees today on September 30th. It is supposed to hit 101 degrees tomorrow and then start a slow cool down that will see us down into the mid eighties by next weekend. I washed the car about a 1/2 hour ago and I'm still sweating. You can tell it is Indian Summer when you look at the leaves beginning to turn brown and fall from the grove across the street in the park. I watched the Ryder Cup meltdown by the Americans and NFL football today from my seat on the couch. Darla spent about an hour on the pool reading the latest Nicolaus Spark's novel. I was out on the pool yesterday afternoon after the golf and woke up in the shade that now hits the pool by about 4:00 PM.
I played golf yesterday with Darren, Boyd and Neil, having a good front nine (41) and a terrible back nine (45) and Darren and I lost $15 to Neil and Boyd. Boyd shot a 75 and Neil shot 88. Darren, my partner struggled to a 92 and we went down in flames. We did play the Power Hour special at 7:14 AM for $35 with a cart and range balls. Luckily I was flush after taking over $100 from my friends playing poker Friday night. There were only five of us and I won $110 and Steve won $150. The other three each lost precipitously. I had lost the last two or three games, so I didn't feel bad taking their money.
Darla and I went to dinner last night at Benihana with Neil and Lilly and we finally got to see their pictures from their Canada trip and visit with Dad and Shirley. Neil invited me to play Squaw Creek golf course next Sunday, so we will make the 90 minute trek up to Squaw Valley and the golf course. They close on the 15th of October for the season and Neil was given a free foursome that has to be used this year. I usually like to watch football on the weekends, but Dallas is off on a BYE week next week and I always like to try new venues.It should be beautiful.
Darren also told me that he won a $1400 golf package that includes foursomes at five of the top courses in Northern California as well as some golf equipment. he has invited us to join him at courses in Portola, the Capay Valley, Redding, Almanor and Graeagle. I look forward to those trips and we will take care of the travel and all of Darren's expenses on those trips.
In two weeks, we will take our annual trip to Monterey and will stay in Pacific Grove for two nights. The golf club is playing Poppy Hills (they will close for a full season next year as they upgrade and redesign a few of the holes on the course and put in a new sprinkler system) on Saturday and Carmel Valley Ranch Country Club. I'm planning to get there early on Friday and play 18 holes at Pacific Grove Golf Links as well. Darla always looks forward to this trip as she gets together with the wives and has lunch and goes shopping. We are staying at the Sunset Inn this year which is across the street from the Asilomar Conference grounds and near the hotel we stayed at with Darryl last year.
We closed out our month on Friday and finished September up 16% on the bottom line and about 7% on the top line. I now have 23 employees working for me and apparently we are making good use of the extra staff as the extra cost of their employment hasn't affected our bottom line. It is what Alan said to me when he visited the new office. His comment was I got you a top notch office, now you have to go out and recruit high grade employees and fill it up. I am really pleased with the last group of hires I have made and can see that those college graduates have really lifted the office to the next level. It is a much more professional group of employees. The younger folks are plugged into a social networking group with other young professionals put on by the Roseville Chamber of Commerce. they get together once a month for cocktails and appetizers at a local restaurant. they also have one learning event each month. In fact the chamber had a brown bag event this past Tuesday and I attended. The topic was "How to talk to your employees and how to coach them to greater success". It was interesting, but I met a partner at the largest architectural firm in Roseville and put David in touch with the firm. He is still looking for work.
My heel seems to be slowly getting better. It's still sore in the morning, but my doctor told me it would be like arthritis, in that it will be sore until I can walk it off in the morning. I still spend all day at work in my walking boot.
Darla finally got a call from our spa service and they were able to find a part for our spa and it will be in by mid week. We are both really looking forward to getting back into the spa, once the weather cools down. It is already much cooler at night and we actually haven't had our air conditioning on for the last month. It is nice to open the windows once the sun goes down. We run the whole house fan for about ten minutes and pull the cool air into the house and the warm air is forced out. You can stand in the foyer by the open front door and feel the breeze as the air is pulled through the house.
Well, that is the news that is fit to print this week. I hope all of you are in good spirits and ready to vote Obama out of office in November. Please. Wait, half of my audience are freaking Canadians. Jeesh. Ciao.
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