You can see how my day started on Friday of this past week. A little background. I had mentioned to Darla that I'd love an O'Henry bar one night. They still make them, but they are not in heavy distribution and you often see them at dollar stores and aggregators. She put it in the back of her mind and when she ran across a Big Hunk bar she bought me one. Big Hunks, a white nougat candy confection and dental appliances do not play well together and I took one bite of my Big Hunk and my front crown that I've had for 19 years was ripped from the post and left in the bar. I called my dentist on Friday at 8 AM and I have a new younger dentist that took over the practice a couple of months ago and he is trying to pay for his investment so works on Fridays. My prior dentist took every Friday off and played golf. Thankfully they were able to get me in right away and I had my post cleaned and the crown reattached by 10:30 and was able to make my lunch marketing call in El Dorado Hills. I call this picture my NHL shot. I was born in Canada and have no use for hockey, which to me is soccer on ice and just as boring.
I've also included pictures from our trip to Marysville last weekend and from Darla's Thursday Silpada party at my office. Most of the ladies you see in the pictures are my staff members, except for Gail's mother-in-law, who was one of the big buyers at the event. It was a $1000 party, so well worth Darla's time.
We did have some rain roll in this week, which helped to drop the rest of the leaves from the grove in the park across the street. I did my last leave cleanup of the season yesterday and feel good to be done with that. We had two days of rain and three days of heavy wind that helped to dislodge the remaining leaves. It did leave a mess in the pool that I worked on today. I got most of the leaves up and out, but there are some small leaves and branches left scattered on the bottom of the pool. The sweep should clean that up, but I got a call from our next door neighbor this week and the sweep had got caught on one of the swim outs last week and was shooting water into their yard. I had taken the sweep out as it was getting clogged by the heavy inundation of leaves. I put it back in after cleaning out the pool today and hope that it doesn't cause issues again. The neighbors like to sit out in their backyard and smoke cancer sticks and I actually could have been accused of setting up the water works. I didn't. Really.
I set up an away golf trip this weekend to Auburn Valley Country Club up in Auburn. Boyd, Neil and Andy joined me and like clockwork, the winds died overnight and their was but a light breeze blowing as we played. Auburn Valley has pretty hard surfaced greens and pride themselves on the speed of their greens and they were running about 13 on the stimp meter. I had a birdie on number two after almost driving the 295 yard hole, but struggled as we all did on the lightning fast greens and shot 43 on the front nine. I birdied the final hole, a par five for a 42 on the back and an 85 overall. Boyd shot 80 and both Andy and Neil were in the 90's Neil had a nice 43 on the front, but struggled a bit on the back nine. It was a fun day and always good to get together with the guys.
We have some work to do in the last three days to keep our streak alive of 10 straight months beating our budget. I am pretty even with last year's numbers. Pete is in Mexico this week with his family and I'm holding his staff responsible for keeping his numbers up. Matt was off for three weeks in October and is paying for it on his numbers this month. It will be close and I'll tell the staff that they can go home on Wednesday as soon as we hit our number. It will provide some incentive.
Darla and I went out to an event at the Dream Theater in Roseville on Friday night. It was an evening of skits and music all based on the songs of Lennon and McCartney of the Beatles. The Dream Theater is a music theater for developmentally delayed or handicapped people. There were some really poor performances and three blind men that were incredibly talented and I really enjoyed their performances. All of the staff and many of the students knew Darla from her days at Alta and it was old home week for her. It was a honey-do for me.
Next weekend will be our final tournament of the year. It is the Eclectic Final and the last tournament of the year long Eclectic Event. We have 53 players that I have tracked their best scores of the year for each of these players. Our best score is by a 1 handicap player who has a gross score of 57. I have a 64 and still have a bogey on number 18, so I have 9 birdies, eight pars and a bogey. It has been a great year and we will celebrate at our Christmas party on December 7th. December 6th will be our last board meeting of the year, with both the outgoing board members and incoming board members meeting together. They are having a board breakfast at 7:30 followed by golf at Timber Creek afterward. I'm taking the day off work that day to attend.
Well, that's it for this week. only a couple of weeks before we are off to Mexico. I look forward to spending time with dad and Shirley and Neil and Lilly. Looking forward to the food, the golf, the Happy Hours at dad and Shirley's condo and some sun and fun. I hope all are well and ready for thanksgiving. Be well. Ciao.
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