Darla is off on her company annual meeting and absence does make the heart grow fonder. It is definitely quiet in the house as I write this and know that Darla will be home tomorrow night. She is my best friend and I miss her when she is gone. My weekend was supposed to be full of poker and golf and it turns out that poker is next weekend, a golf game that was set for this morning got dropped because of text issues and the game of golf I did play on Saturday was not one to write home about. Ron had texted me on Wednesday and asked if I wanted to play golf at Haggin Oaks at 7 AM this morning. I immediately accepted and put it happily on my "To Do List for the weekend. He texted back Thursday and said that they had filled the opening. Somehow my text did not go through on his side, but showed "Delivered" on my end. Luckily he did text me back or I would have shown up this morning.
Darla is in Providence Rhode Island and her trip has not been without excitement. One of her girls is 70 and in poor health. She uses a cane and is very feeble. Why she wants to attend a conference is beyond me. She immediately gets a wheelchair at the airport and Darla likes travelling with her as she goes as her plus one and they get on the plane first. She is in the middle of the bottom picture and in the stretcher in the next to last photo. She started hemorrhaging at conference and had to be rushed to the hospital on Saturday. Darla went with her and had to get a ride back to dinner as Cindy had to stay over in the hospital. I don't know the full story as Darla told me she'd fill me in, but as Darla said, she thought she was just going to a conference, but ended up doing some "medical social work" as well. The bottom picture was at Flemmings in Providence. They took the ferry over and spent the day Friday touring Providence.
The two pictures of my crepe myrtles in the side yard show the wonderful blooms that have sprung up in this 100 degree weather. There are crepe myrtle bushes and I'd like to add some of those to the side yard as well and take out some of the agapanthas that have wonderful blooms but dry up and die off too quickly in the heat. It has been ridiculous this year as we seem to have 100 degree temperatures every weekend. We had 106 yesterday and 103 today. It is supposed to drop into the mid nineties during the week and back up to 103 degrees on Saturday. In fact, our forecast shows a stretch of 7 days starting Thursday of over 100 degrees. This has been one of our hottest Summers in terms of average temperature and that follows a tremendously rainy Winter and Spring. We have already endured 18 days over 100 degrees and average only ten every Summer. Our biggest heat wave came when Sam was visiting.
The other pictures are of my Commercial Lines Underwriters as we were invited out to Top Golf by one of our major carriers. We went Wednesday afternoon and had fun. My arm seems to be getting better as I had no issues whatsoever. The 4th picture down has our Underwriter from the carrier and hostess, Karen, on the right in the picture.
I played in the Diamond Oaks tournament with Neil yesterday. It was hosted by Footjoy and we each got a shoe bag. Good thing as I certainly didn't WIN anything. I shot 47+49= 96 which was like falling down a flight of stairs. My driver was all over the place and my short chips went rocketing across the greens. I'm still knocking the rust off and the two rounds last weekend were not indicative of where I am right now as a golfer. I have the Club Championship in two weeks and will play in it, but have little hope of being victorious. The only silver lining is that the CC is a match play event and I had two birdies in my round even with the poor scores. I suppose I could hang on and win hole by hole with a few blowups along the way. It was HOT and not fun on Saturday, but strangely I enjoyed being out on the course and visiting with Neil. We took a cart to avoid some of the blinding sun and that helped. Neil hasn't played a lot of golf this year and actually let his annual pass lapse this year as he and Lilly have been working on the house. They had new windows installed, a new air conditioner put in and new landscaping installed. Thy also had the exterior of the house painted and painted the interior themselves. Neil and Lilly send their best to Dad and Shirley.
I will be back out at Diamond on Thursday night subbing again in the twilight league and then Saturday morning for a practice round with Rico and Paul. Ron is supposed to join me, but had a potential conflict and he will let me know if he can play tomorrow. I played well at Morgan Creek, but my home course is kicking my butt right now. I need to get that handled before the Club Championship in two weeks.
That is all the news that is fit to share at the moment. I really enjoyed the British Open this morning and the Dallas kid, Jordan Spieth, struggling and then finding his game late to win by three strokes. He is incredible at the tender age of 23. Be well. Ciao.
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