30th Excerpt From My Original Golf Diary on the 30th of November

    In this excerpt, I am about to go back to school after Christmas break, but here in the present I go back to school tomorrow after Thanksgiving break.  After this Thanksgiving, I recognize that I have much to be thankful for.  I am healthy after surviving strep as an adult again.  I also hurt my heel by jumping out of a tree over at the Edgerton's after the BIG dinner.  I thought I was a kid, so I was playing "tree tag" with the other "kids."  All is well now, though.  I am thankful for the time we got spend with our children, and we had the bonus surprise of having Emily stop by going both directions, the first time with a friend and the second time with Bev and Curt.  So, it reminded me of all the Thanksgivings we had celebrated in the past with the Lamberts.  Here's another look back in the past...    

Written on 12-25-01.
 
    This Christmas, I got...

29th Excerpt From My Original Golf Diary

Written on 12-14-01.

    I was able to play in Phoenix after our interview with the DOD.  I had another first, a rather incredible first at that!  I scored three birdies in one round.  In all my rounds, I have only been able to get one birdie per round, and sometimes none at all.  I was thrilled to get two, but three?!  I was ecstatic!  I am up to eight birdies this year now.  Let me see if I can remember and type them all here quickly.  I know I got one at the long par five #5 at Hidden Valley.  That was one of the first.  I also got one at the very next hole, but on a different date.  I made a long putt playing with Eric.  Then two holes after that one but on a different day, I made a beautiful pitch after a bad drive on that short hole #8 and made that downhill putt.  That’s three.  I also got one at Civitan on hole #3.  I knocked a pitching wedge into a strong wind from about 100 yards out and landed it three feet or less from the hole.  That’s four for sure.  I also count making the birdie putt on hole #18 during the Aztec Football Fundraiser Scramble as one of my birdies, even though I just made the last shot on that one.  It was a long putt from off the fringe with some tournament pressure weighing in on me.  That makes five, and now I just got three more in one round!  I will type in the details later, but they were all on par threes as this was an executive nine that I was playing on.  The only bummer is that there were no witnesses but me, but I know they were all legitimate.  Hey, I am really up to nine this year!  I was just reading some previous entries and I forgot the one when I was playing with Guy, Daryl, and AM up in Lakewood at the Foothills course!  One more and I will have matched last year’s total number.  And it’s only December!  Can’t wait to go out and play some more and hopefully get another one, or two… or three more.

Happy Anniversary, Belinda! Life is Great!

Written on 11-23-14.

    I look back at my written reflection on the Club Championship, and I think…I’m such a whiner.  As I sit here, though, downstairs up at the cabin home on the first weekend of Thanksgiving break, I have nothing but positive things to think and write about.
    B is taking a nap on one couch, and I am sitting on the medium red futon/couch.  She and I are the only ones down here.  The only other couch down here, the only empty one, is our old dirty white one with the tan stripes.  It has a pullout mattress and a decent chocolaty colored cover on it that we bought years ago from Target for around $200.00 (to cover the dirty white and tan stripes) to keep it from completely embarrassing us before we bought our new living room furniture.  That old thing reminds me once again of...

28th Excerpt From My Original Golf Diary

10-15-01

     I am talking with Guy on the phone right now.  We regularly talk about golf.  I was telling him about how Eric and I played golf this past weekend, two days in a row actually!  That is rare considering our wives don’t normally allow it, but Friday we had Parent/Teacher conferences, so we got to leave school a couple of hours earlier than usual.  We got to play at Civitan.  I hadn’t played there for a long time.  Like I had said, we played on Friday after conferences.  Then we played again on Saturday, eighteen holes both times.  Highlights were five pars in a row and another birdie!  I also tied my best score there, a 32!  Or did I score a 31 once? I will check my scorecards to see if I did. No, I haven’t.  I also scored six pars in another set of nine holes.  I played very well, very consistently.  I also got a par on the very difficult ninth hole, which is 173 yards or so.  I beat Eric on all nine holes, except the last nine, where we tied with a 36.  On that nine, I scored a six; however, on hole number two, all because of four putts!  YUCK!

11-17-01

    Hello again.  I just finished playing today, and wanted to tell about another birdie I got.

Hidden Valley-Hole 8

    This is the same short par four where I made the long downhill putt I wrote about just a little bit ago.  I pulled my drive pretty badly, bouncing it off the cart path and landing it near the green of hole #12, the raised par three.  From there I hit one of my best pitches with my pitching wedge.  It landed on the green about eight feet above the hole.  I rolled it right in from there for a three.  I had a witness, some guy waiting to tee off on #13, but he didn’t know it was a birdie putt and I have no idea who he was.  Some very steady playing today preceded that birdie.  I ended up with one birdie, five pars, and five bogeys.  I scored a 45 on both the front nine and the back nine.  They let me play the back nine first.  I played alone.  Danielle chose to go to the Fall Festival at McCoy instead of playing with me.  I guess games and prizes are more exciting than golf to her, and I guess I can’t blame her considering she is six years old.  Ha 
    I played at Curt’s golf course with Guy, Curt, Daryl, and James last weekend.  That was great fun, too!  Curt could only play the front nine because he had to go to announce a high school football game.  Guy, the two boys, and I continued on to the back nine.  I shot a 91, which I was very happy with.  My goal was to shoot in the low nineties, or get my handicap in the high teens by the end of last summer.  That is about where I am at right now. 
    I won another prize!  Sort of.  Dad challenged Guy, Curt, and I to see who would score the lowest.  The winner would receive one of Dad’s lottery tickets worth one dollar.  If it would have been a winner, it was worth about four million.  I...