The blog will be late next week as we are off to Vancouver on Wednesday and will be there until Sunday. I will probably get to the blog early next week. I'm at it actually a little late tonight a I had to input scores, send individual scores to the webmaster and update and forward new Tournament handicaps to the webmaster. Darla is yakking on the phone to a girlfriend so I'll get on this. It was a busy weekend that started with poker Friday night, the third round of the 54 hole Individual golf championship on Saturday and a busy Sunday which saw the start of the staining of the stamped concrete deck.
Friday I was in Stockton with our new Commercial Underwriter and we visited agencies and had lunch. Pete drove up from Elk Grove and joined us at Dave Wong's Chinese Restaurant. I got back to Roseville about 4 and let Samson out and then power washed half of the deck in preparation for staining. Poker was at Steve's that night and I was horrible, losing about $60 in 5 hours. You can't win every time.
Saturday was golf and the third round of the 54 hole Individual championship. I was horrible the first two rounds and was playing from the trees most of the time. I shot 90 on Saturday and 91 on Sunday and sat way back in the standings and had an early tee time Saturday. I somehow figured it out after a double bogey-bogey start. I shot 1 over the rest of the front nine for a 40. I stumbled on the back, but shot 44 for an 84, net 67 and moved up the leaderboard to take 7th place. I had a chip in birdie on the par 5 number 6 that was worth $37 in skin money and I won $27.50 for 7th place, so not a bad weekend. I guess you could say I made up for my poker losses.
You can see a turtle that we saw on the 2nd tee box. He had climbed the hill from the lake by number six and was rooting in the dry grass by the rough next to the cart path. I also have a picture of David and Miya in their chef aprons that Darla bought them for Christmas. There is a picture of one of the peacocks that have been gracing our courtyard at work for the last month. Finally Samson is looking like a Snoop Dog on his 1st birthday.
Darla and I went out for dinner last night at Sabores Mexican Restaurant for Cinco De Mayo. I had an iced tea and Darla had a diet Coke. We are definitely a party couple. We enjoyed fajitas and rib eye and then took a trip over to PetSmart and bought Samson some new chew toys.
Darla took a walk as I was writing this and Samson wandered into her office and got hold of some jewelry pads and tore them up. She got home and called me into the bedroom and Samson was sitting in a pile of chewed up pads. Oops. He continues to be a handful and Darla struggles with him. Hopefully he grows out of some of his destructiveness.
Today Darla was up at 5 AM and out of the house for the Lodi Street Fair where she was selling her Touchstone jewelry. Samson let me sleep in a little and I got up at 8:30. I worked on the side gate that has been dragging. I want to set up a dog run on the side of the house and let Samson relax. He isn't thrilled with it as the side area has two gates and he can't see in either the front or back yard. We want to actually build a metal gate with a mesh door that extends into the back yard and we can leave the wood gate open or take it off. That will allow him a potty area in the plants.
I put him in the run and he whined and dug under the fence to the blocks that I placed there to keep him from digging. I finally gave up and brought him into the house and put him in his crate and worked on the stain on the dick. It looks great, but I am tired and sore tonight.
Darla got home about the time I was knocking off and she took Samson to the park for a run and I got a shower. We had barbecued hamburgers and that brings you up to date.
I had an odd interaction on Saturday with one of our new members. He is playing in his first tournament along with his brother. He shot a 76 on Saturday last week that gave him a net 61. On Sunday he shot 86 for a 71, but had a hole in one, his first. I was talking to him after the round and I asked him where his brother was. He told me that their sister had died unexpectedly the night before and his brother was with their brother in law. I asked him if his sister lived close and she lived in Roseville. I asked him why he showed up and he said, "Well, I was in the hunt for fist place and wanted to see how I could do." I was stunned. His sister was 70 and in good health and had a stroke. I enjoy golf, but would have made a different choice if I was him. He shot 90 and although he finished in first, I would not have made that choice.
Well, that is it for this week. I will be back at it next week with tales of Vancouver. I am going with the Insurance group that I am on the board of. It is our annual planning meeting. We were in New England last year and Washington DC the year before. We will stay with Dad and Shirley over the weekend. Have a great week. Ciao.
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