Yeah, I know. I was just talking about Indian Summer last week, and we are still seeing daytime highs in the 90's, but the days are growing shorter (there is no sun left on the pool after 5 PM) and the leaves are starting to fall from the grove of trees across the street in the park and blow into my yard. It is great golf weather with cool mornings and great conditions on the course.
I had a busy week of work with sports marketing on both Monday and Tuesday. I also took Thursday off and played in the NCGA qualifier. Monday we were out at the Troon course in Brooks, Yocha De He, which is the centerpiece of an Indian casino in Capay Valley. Pete and I hosted one of our retailers from Woodland and we had a late lunch followed by golf in the 100 degree weather. Troon courses are well known for the perfectly manicured fairways and wonderful greens. The rate is usually over $100, but they had just punched the greens last week and we were able to get on for $69 a man. We were on the 14th hole waiting on the group in front of us and we all had wet towels over our heads and were drinking ice water. I laughed and said, "are we out of our minds?". Pete laughed and said, "Nope. We're living the dream, brother!" I shot 83 on the day and was happy to tame that very difficult course.
Tuesday I was up and off to Redding for a Golf day outing with one of our agent's in the area. It was the Shasta County Insurance Golf day. Our group shot 6 under par, but didn't get in the money. We could have used Matt, but he was in Dallas on a Management trainee outing. It was a long day as the drive is close to three hours.
Thursday I did play in the qualifier. It is always fun to play in these as they have the officials with each group and they announce you on the first tee. I played like a spastic on the front side of the course with three double-bogeys and laid up a 46. I pulled it together on the back side, but it was too little, too late, as I shot 39 for an 85, net 72 and the 15 qualifiers from our site were at 70 or better. it was upsetting, but it was also good to shake off my malaise and play well on the back.
I played with Paul in our two man scramble Invitational event on Saturday and Paul and I could have run away with the tournament, but we bogeyed the number one and two handicap holes and ended up with a 32+33=65 for a net of 54. We tied for first low gross and took second low net. Our back 9 of 33 was one more than the other team that shot 65, so we had to settle for second place and $69 a man. I was supposed to play with Darren, but he had an event in Nashville over the weekend. The way that Darren has been playing lately, we would have cleaned up.
Darla and I went to church today and had the honor of hearing General Jerry Boykins speak on his testimony. It was incredible hearing his stories of praying with his men before they went out on missions and how his commander originally requested him to gather the guys and pray for their safety. From then on, his guys refused to leave on a mission until Boykins would say a prayer of protection over the guys. He has led an incredible life as a leader of the Delta forces and is now saving lives as he travels around the country and tells his story and packs houses of worship wherever her goes. We had about a dozen people give their lives to Christ in our service today.
Darla continues to grow her business and I am trying hard to have patience as the bills come in and she plans events in the coming months. This is the place in my life when I have to trust God to provide. I do very well and can make the bills on my own, but I'm used to paying extra on the mortgage and other bills. Darla and her family believe strongly in God's will and his provision and I am learning the ropes as a young Christian.
This has been a different day of sports with Dallas losing and the golf tournament being delayed until tomorrow. Even right now, the night game between Seattle and SF has been delayed for lightning. Thank God they don't stop games for rain or they'd never play a game in Seattle.
Darla is out swimming laps in the pool. It is one of her new exercise routines. She has been going to the gym every day and doing Spin classes, Pilates, and strength training classes. Darla's energy is 100% back and is good to have her. Sometimes we butt heads, but she is pretty strong willed and I prefer the feisty Darla to the vanilla brand that was here for about four months.
Jennifer was supposed to come today and go to church with us, but McKenny had a noon flight to New Jersey and she had to drop him off. Jennifer will transition back to Las Vegas next weekend. McKenny will drive back with her and help her move into her new apartment next weekend. Jennifer's company and Ericsson Electric have agreed to allow Jennifer to work from Vegas and make periodic trips to California to do some site walks. Most of her work is managing her construction sites, ordering materials and making sure that they have enough staff to complete the job. She does not need to be physically on site for her jobs. I know Samantha will be THRILLED to have her Mommy back full time and we look forward to seeing them in a couple of weeks with dad and Shirley.
I am getting ready to host our CEO again at our office in early October, in fact it will be the Thursday that we get back from Vegas. He is flying in mid morning and has to fly back to Los Angeles that afternoon. I am trying to prepare the staff for his visit by going over the budget, the history of the company and the various divisions that we have as a company. We are looking to expand our space and will meet with our landlord and our realtor to try to hammer out some kind of agreement.
Well, that will do it for this installment. I will be back at the keyboard next Sunday. I hope you all have a good week. Be well. Ciao.
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