Good day today in spite of the Cowboys laying an egg. Darla and I were up early and off to church for a good message and then I took her over to the club and we had breakfast with a 2 for 1 coupon that I had. The weather was excellent, cool but sunny with no wind. It maxed out at 64 degrees today after a high of 62 yesterday. Both days started out foggy and the fog lifted by about 8 AM this morning whereas it was more like 11 AM yesterday when we were playing golf. I got out this afternoon and cleaned up the backyard and sprayed off the patio and cleaned up leaves. I had worked hard the day before spending about an hour and a half cleaning up the front yard leaves and getting them piled up for the city to come out tomorrow and pick them up, only to do it all again this week.
The pictures are from our Corporate VP, Michaels', visit and dinner with him at McCormick Schmick's on Wednesday night. Mike and Pete like to go there on Wednesday's as it is buck a shuck for their oysters and $1 each for their jumbo shrimp. I don't care for oysters and don't like cold shrimp, so the two of them ate 3 dozen oysters and 3 dozen shrimp. Darla and I had calamari, chicken lettuce wraps and seared ahi tuna. Good stuff. I forwarded that picture of Mike and Darla to him and he had dinner Thursday night with Phil Castro whom Darla and I set up with his girlfriend. Phil was telling him the story of how he met Carmen. Mike said he wanted to show Phil a picture of HIS girlfriend and showed him the above shot. Funny stuff. The picture of Samson in the bed is one that we could take every morning as he gets up and moves to the bed and lays there as we try to make it. I took that Saturday morning. The next two are just of us hanging out with Samson. He is not allowed up on the leather sofas, but climbs up and hangs out with us with his back paws staying on the ground. The next two shots were taken by one of Darla's girlfriends who is a photographer and is for her Touchstone business. Great picture of Darla alone and with Samson. The final picture is of Phil from yesterday's golf with Pete, Phil and Mark when we played the Turkey shoot with the Roseville Golf Club.
It was a good week of work. The results came in from our October and we were up 13% with profit up almost 30% for the month. We are up about 2% over 2016 and our profit is up about 14% over 2016, which was a pretty good year. I was thrilled with the results and continue to make plans for more growth in 2018.
I picked Michael up from the airport on Tuesday and he was here until Friday afternoon. He stays busy while he is here doing marketing calls with the teams and out to dinner each night with one of the teams. He is living the dream in his job right now as he travels across the country working with our younger producers. When he is on the road, he is busy. When he's home he is playing golf with his friends. In addition to dinner Wednesday, Mike, Pete, Phil and I played golf on Friday at Morgan Creek. It was a good day on the course, although we met Pete at the course to have breakfast and found out they only serve breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. We had to dash over to Carl's Jr. to get something before we teed off. I had set up for Pete and Phil to play in their first golf tournament on Saturday in the Turkey Shoot along with Mark who is Phil's partner in their Insurance agency in Roseville. It was nice to have the day before as a practice round. Little did we know that we would all shoot our best golf Friday instead of Saturday. We play at Morgan Creek because Mike is a lefty and rents clubs. Many of the local courses do not rent clubs, or if they do, they don't have a lefty set. Mike shot 83, I shot 83, Phil had 87 and Pete shot a 91.Phil and I both shot 40 on the back side and had birdies coming home. It was fun. We had lunch after the round at the course and then Mike had a 4 PM flight back to Phoenix. Pete agreed to take him if I would take his driver over to Diamond Oaks and get it re gripped for the round on Saturday. His grip was completely worn off on the spot for your fingers. Wow.
We met at 8:30 on Saturday morning at the course and we paid for Mark and Phil as a marketing outing. I told them NOT to get used to it. Both Pete and Phil were really nervous and afraid they'd do or say something wrong. They relaxed after the tee shot on the first hole. Pete struggled and shot a 103. Phil was equally sloppy and shot a 100. Mark had a 89 and I shot 88, but both Mark and I had two birdies on the backside and both won $50 in the all flight skins in addition to $20 in a gift card from a local grocer. I was happy to see the first tournament for Phil and Pete.
Next Saturday, Paul and I will play in Woodcreek's Turkey shoot which is a 2 man best ball event. It includes a putting contest, lunch and prizes. Paul won the Tournament of Champions which runs concurrent with the Turkey Shoot at the Roseville Golf Club. The TOC prize is the low net for the tournament out of all of the eligible tournament winners from the prior year. He shot 73, net 63 on Saturday. I hope he stays hot for next weekend.
Pete, Phil, Mark and I will all go to the Christmas party on December 1st with our significant others. Darla and I fly back from Canada (Seattle) that afternoon and then have the Golf Club Christmas party that night. Jennifer, Sam and McKenny are also coming in that weekend as McKenny has a gig at the radio station at Stanford on Sunday night. Darla has a Touchstone party on Saturday in Monterey and we will drive down with her and spend the day in Carmel and Monterey and then drive home Saturday night. Jennifer will visit with Bill who her Mom was married to when she was 9-17 while we are at the golf party.
We will host the family for Thanksgiving this year. We had originally planned to be in Canada, but Darla's brother, Steve, announced that he will be in California from Hawaii to visit family. We moved our visit to November 28- December 1st. It turns out that not only is he staying in California, but will stay with US. We went to Hawaii last December and spent some quality time with them, so I look forward to seeing them both. We will celebrate the holiday with them and Darla's family and then Monday, take Samson in to his Obedience school for 10 days. We have a list of things that we want him to concentrate on. The list (not all inclusive) includes: coming when he is called, not pulling on the leash when we walk, not going berserk when someone comes to the front door, listening to us, stopping when he is told, NO BITING, NO BARKING, STAY, HEEL, STAY DOWN, COME, among others. He will hopefully be a better behaved dog when we pick him up on December 18th. He is good, he's just a puppy. 100% puppy. He's lucky he's cute.
Well, this is short and sweet. I will be back at the keyboard next weekend. I hope all is well with each of you. Be nice to each other. Ciao.
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