Coaching Volleyball Again Brings Back Memories

    I am good at golf, and I have improved so much, but I know volleyball, and it was great to be reunited with Anna as her assistant coach again.  We work well together, and it brings back great memories of taking state in ’92 and taking third in state the year right after that, and all those great girls we coached all those years ago. 
    It has also brought back wonderful memories of...

That Feeling in My Head and Back Where I Belong

     Okay, I feel caught up on the whole golf scene now, but one more thing I have been thinking about is the Club Championship.  I talked to Bruce about this, too, and he said he would consider playing in it if he is playing well enough to have a shot at that time.  Honestly, I don’t know when it is.  It might be this coming weekend, and that would be bad.  I remember it being the first weekend of October one year.   I would like to play, but my life is busy right now.
    For example, I am...

Catching Up With Troy and Meeting Terry

     I played the par threes on the front well with a birdie and two pars.  On the back, I had a triple on #7 and a double on #15, though.  Bruce was steady, but he did not play as well as he had when he had played with C.J.  He shot a 76 with C.J. and an 82 with me with matching 41s on the front and back.  We played well enough to help us tie the Bogey Man at +4 on the round.  He had a really good look at a birdie to beat that mean old Bogey Man on #18, but he missed right.  I was proud of my scrambling par on #18, and I ended up shooting an 87 with a 43 on the front and a 44 on the back.  So, we tied him.

    Like I had written earlier, Troy called me on the Friday of Labor Day weekend to let me know...

Two More Post-Surgery Birdies!

     I earned two more birdies when playing with Bruce, and they did help us in our challenge with the Bogey Man.  Here’s how they played out...

A Few More Details

9-20-11
    Okay, it has been way too long since I have written, at least by my standards.  I have a ton of stuff to say, so here I go.
    I played with Bruce a couple of weekends ago.  We played the Bogey Man, and the goal was to allow no more than +2 on the front, and no more than +4 on the round overall.   It was Labor Day, I believe.  Bruce kept score this time, so the date was not written down, but that’s right; it was Labor Day.  He had played with C.J. earlier that weekend, but C.J. chose not to come this time because Bruce said his back was hurting.  Since the surgery, I still haven’t played with C.J. yet.  Hopefully soon.
    I got a few more details from Bruce about his part in the “clubs in the irrigation ditch” adventure.  First...

The Adventure of Bruce and C.J. or What I Missed

9-4-11

    It’s Labor Day weekend.  Bruce and I are going to play tomorrow for our Labor Day eighteen holes.  I played with Troy (last name) and Terry (last name) at Pinon Hills on Friday.  Troy left a voicemail on my cell (it is set to silent when I teach), and just a few hours later, I met up with them on hole #7.  Troy and Terry were in town to see Troy’s son, Angelo, a sophomore at Montrose High School, play football against the Piedra Vista team.  Troy has the tendency to be spacey at times, so he fully admitted the only reason he contacted me was because his wife Jill reminded him that I live near Farmington.  Thank you, Jill.  I had a wonderful time.  I played well, and it was so fun to hang out with them.  I made an evening out of it by going to the game, and Belinda even came to meet us there.  The timing was really good, too, because we had an early release day due to homecoming.
    I can add more about that later, but my next writing assignment (self-assigned) was to write about what I missed this past summer when I was out of the action, a funny story about Bruce and C.J.
    C.J. called me after the surgery, maybe a week or two after.  He had a funny story he just had to relay, and I was his perfect audience.  He told me that...