I love where we live in Northern California because there are as many golf courses that are located out in the country with views of mountains, lakes, trees and nature as there are neighborhood courses. I enjoy an occasional road trip and some golf out n the country. Paul, Rico and I met at the Park n Ride in Roseville at 9 AM and drove up to Auburn Valley Country Club up in the foothills outside of Auburn. It's about a 40 minute drive and you can see the beautiful vistas that we enjoyed. I had a Groupon for $50 for two of us. Rico was tempted to buy one as well, but try as we might, we were not able to get a fourth player to join us. Auburn Valley is a long, tree lined golf course with a lot of water and narrow fairways. It is really hilly and we were happy to have golf carts as we watched some of the members doing their best billy goat impressions as they climbed the hills in front of us. It was a pleasant day of golf. We all struggled on the front nine as AV has some of the fastest greens in the area and I even started with the dreaded 6-6-6 on my first three holes. I ended up with a 48+41=89. Paul shot 43+45=88 and Rico shot 45+39=84. The course is rated 127 and our home course is 119. The higher the slope, the tougher the course.
Charlie's 70th birthday party was starting at 2 PM and I warned them that Darla and I wouldn't be there until after 4 because I was playing golf. Dinner was supposed to arrive at 4, so Frieda wanted us there by 4. We got there at 4:30 and the food arrived about 5 from the barbecue restaurant. Frieda ordered enough food for about twice the number of people she had at the party and she had at least 45 people at the event. We went through the ribs, chicken, biscuits, coleslaw, potato salad and tri-tip and baked beans and when we were all finished she had four extra platters of food that hadn't even been touched. We brought a box of leftovers home with us. Charlie was in his element and enjoying all of his friends and family there feting him. They tried to push him into the pool and he stripped off his shirt and dove in by himself and then sat dripping opening his gifts and cards. Darla and I stayed until about nine and headed home. There were a lot of older folks that were at the party and most of them were gone by six. Frieda would prefer that we stay until midnight, but I had spent the day in the sun and was tired.
Jennifer is off next weekend to Dallas to help host her Mom's 60th birthday party with her Step Father, Bob. It is an adults only party so Sam isn't invited. I'm just saying now that if there is a party for me next year and I'll be on a cruise so probably not, but Samantha is not only invited, but it would be a requirement that she be here.
I came home Saturday and saw Darla sitting amid a pile of wine. She bought some Converse shoes from Amazon and got a certificate for $100 worth of wine and it had been delivered. I think she got 8 bottles. My question: How expensive were the damn tennis shoes?
It is the 15th anniversary of 9-11 today and tell me this, 15 years ago we were brought together as a nation by a tragic and horrific event and one of the things that we all said at that time was "Never Forget." So tell me how 15 little years later we are now bringing Syrian refugees into our country? Apparently our idiot President didn't get the memo. He's the guy that says we are safer now than we were 15 years ago. What is he smoking? And as of today the Wicked Witch of Washington, who coughs and stumbles and trips over her feet, between lies, is 5 points ahead of the Narcissist Republican Nominee. This is a national nightmare and I'm wide awake.
Our office ended up with our strongest month in August that we have had in three years. We finished the month with a $188,000 profit. Part of that had to do with a journal entry done by Accounting that closed the gap on an overcharge that was applied to my P&L in October of 2015. Whatever, I'll take it.
Darla's Touchstone business is going great. One of the big advantages that she had is that a large leader in the area from Silpada did not join Touchstone and Darla was able to poach all of those representatives and get them to sign up under her. It is going well and she has a great opportunity to win a trip to Jamaica next February. She had a "booking party" on Saturday and the three ladies involved booked nine parties. It's pretty amazing stuff. The jewelry has a lot more color to it and is at a lower price point and she and her group are having tremendous success with the product. I'm very proud of her.
I mentioned at the start of this blog entry how I enjoy road trips for golf. Darla and I decided that we would skip the Monterey golf trip this year. The two courses being played are Poppy Hills and Del Monte and I've played both before. We have our trip to Hawaii in December and we want to make a trip to Las Vegas in the next two months, so we are saving the money. I have set up a day trip to Napa on September 30th and there will be four of us that drive down and play the Kennedy Course in Napa and then drive back the same day. I still have an open invitation to go up to Graeagle and play the Whitehawk Ranch course and stay with Uncle Junior. I hope to get that done in October, before the weather gets too cold up there.
Well that's it for this week. I still haven't talked to Dad and Shirley as you guys are never home when we call. We will try again in the next few days. I hope everyone is doing well. Sad to see Dallas lose their opener today, but I see a lot of good things coming from the rookie quarterback, Dak Prescott. I also look forward to seeing Zeke Elliott have a breakout game sooner than later. Ciao.
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