Long, hard weekend

I’m glad to be back at work after a very busy weekend. Started it off with over 3 hours of mowing Friday afternoon. I went after the 12” high grass in a two pronged attack. First I put the mower as high as possible and went over it with the side discharge open. Then, not wanting to rake I lowered the deck to the next setting down and went over it perpendicular to the first pass, this time mulching. While there was still grass clippings around it didn’t feel like it was enough to rake. I was pretty toast after that so I just drank beer and watched tv the rest of the night.

Saturday I thought I was going to be working on the basement but I was informed I needed to do other things like get flowers and a new shrub for the front. Ok, no problem, those are easy. Unfortunately the shrub being replaced did NOT want to be dug out. After an hour and a half, 2 shovels, an axe and a saw it finally came out. I’ve never seen a root system that strong in a shrub, especially one less than 2 years old. Needless to say by the time that was all over all I had the strength left to do was spray some dandelions. Then it was beer drinking time. I read on the deck while enjoying a couple cold ones.

Sunday was golfing day. While Saturday morning was quite warm and in the 60’s right off the bat, Saturday night brought another front through and Sunday at 8am it was only 43! Talk about a cold start to the day.

I decided to carry my bag instead of using my cart. 2 years ago I bought a cart because my shoulder couldn’t take the carrying any more (had surgery that fall). Since then I really have enjoyed the cart (Sun Mountain speed cart) but we’re going to Whistling Straits this Saturday and I’m going to carry there so I thought I better try it out first. Wish I hadn’t, my shoulders are quite sore though I didn’t really notice it at the time. I shot a wildly erratic 91 (45/46). Started the front nine by going double, triple, bogey, double and finished the front with par, par, bogey, par, par. Then started the back with a snowman on the 10th hole (par 4). Ended up losing 5 balls and having 8 pars. Crazy.

Afterwards we ran a couple errands and then sat around reading, catching up on all my golf magazines as well as the last Cargo (they cancelled it, booooooo) and Cigar Aficionado and again, partaking a few cold Capital Island Wheats. Speaking of that, I went to the Village Liquor on Saturday afternoon and it was customer appreciation day. With the purchase of a 12 pack of Island Wheat I got an extra bottle, a pint glass, coolie and key chain bottle opener. Yay… love those free beer items.

5 days till Whistling Straits, I can’t wait! Forecast is for 71 and partly cloudy, a 10 on Weather.com’s golf scale of 1-10!