Back at it on a Sunday night. The Dallas Cowboys are messing up a perfectly harmless preseason game with horrendous play on special teams and offense. The defense looks really good and gives me hope for the coming year.
We had David and Daniel's cousin, Taylor, come and visit us on Saturday. I had golf and the family ended up going to see Luke play soccer and then off to Folsom Lake for the final weekend that boats are allowed to drive over 5 MPH as they begin to lower the lake level for Winter flood control. I had our Invitational golf event and had Pete from the office as my guest. The other pictures are of our date Friday night which was dinner out to celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary. I made a collage of the pictures taken at our table. Darla is standing and I'm sitting because she is in her 50's and I'm 61. The last picture is a shot I got of Samson relaxing on the couch with his head on the arm of the sofa.
Darla and I went to dinner Friday night to celebrate our anniversary which was actually Thursday night, but I had the next to last week of my golf twilight league that night. I got off a little bit early on Friday and we headed out to Lincoln and dinner at one of our favorite restaurants. We enjoyed a split plate of Gnocchi and Chicken Saltimbocca. They had a small group playing at the restaurant and it was a pleasant night.
Pete and I played together on Saturday. He had taken his clubs in to be re-gripped during the week. He planned to pick them up on Saturday morning. Now, a bit of ancient history. I had ordered a new driver about two years ago and when it came in, Pete accepted it from UPS, took it into his office and removed the driver and left just the packing material and the head cover in the box and he resealed it and brought it to my office. Funny guy. I opened the box and had a fit. Meanwhile, Pete went back to his office and back to work. I called the shop that sent me the club and UPS and raised holy h*ll. I put a claim in with UPS and fumed. Pete came back in about fifteen minutes later with the club and was quite amused with himself. I was less so. I called UPS and told them "good news and bad news". The good news was the club had been found, the bad news was the idiot that hid it had been fired. I filed that one and prepared for payback some time in the future.
My chance came this week. I played Thursday night and talked to the guys in the shop and took possession of Pete's driver. I met him early Saturday as we were meeting our agent Ron and his partner for breakfast. Pete went into the pro shop to get his clubs and I followed with him. The guys working had no idea that I had the driver and it turns out that one of the guys was the guy who had actually re-gripped his clubs. He got the irons and handed them over. Pete looked at them and said, "I had a driver as well." The guy looked all over and headed into the back office. I followed him and clued him in on what was going on. He asked if I wanted him to "mess" with Pete. Oh yeah. He came out and said that somehow the driver had been sold. Pete got a little exercised and said,"Well, you guys owe me a driver." I said actually they owe you whatever they got for the driver. Mike played right along and said, "Yeah, we sold it for $17.50." I almost died laughing at the look on Pete's face. He started to complain and I stopped him and reminded him of his little stunt in the office and let him know I had his club. It went off better than I could have planned.
Pete is a 19 handicap and we had a 17 team handicap. We played well and shot a 76, net 59 and felt pretty good about ourselves until we got in and saw the 51, two 54s and a 56 on the score sheet. The event was a lot of fun and they had some contest holes. On one of them, it was a 115 yard par three and you had to roll dice to see what club you had to play with. You had to play that club all the way through the hole, including putting. I ended up with a 6 iron and hit a sawed off swing and the ball hit about 40 yards short of the green and rolled up to 3 feet 6 inches away. Someone came in behind me at 3 feet 4 inches. The 18th hole had a collection of persimmon drivers and if you used one to tee off with, you got a free hit. Those old drivers don't fly well and we ended up about 255 yards from the green on a par 4. Because we laid zero, we managed to get on the green in 2 and got our 4. It was fun, but we didn't win anything. I had a great time with Pete and Ron.
We got called this week and will get our new sliders installed on Labor Day. They have crews working and they will be here early and tear out the old sliders and put in new ones. They will do everything except the finish on the exterior as the city inspector has to come out and look at the weatherization and sign off on that Tuesday. They will be back on Wednesday to finish the job. I also got a quote from Chad on our other windows and he will be by on Monday to get the contract signed and order those windows. Hopefully he can have that completed before Dad and Shirley come as well.
I bought Darla a new laptop as hers was on the fritz and we went big and got her a nice MacBook Pro by Apple. Now she has an iPhone, an iPad, and the Mac book and they all talk to each other and share files and pictures, etc. It is a really nice addition to her work equipment.
I will call a halt to this as it is halftime and there are hamburgers to grill. I hope all are well and I will be back at this on Labor Day next week as it is a holiday and I want to get some pictures of the slider work. Have a great week. Ciao.
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