Well, I made it through the weekend and I'm still alive. I guess that's a good thing.
It all started Friday afternoon when I had to mow in a 90 degree heat index and then I attempted to stain my fence after that.
I found what appeared to be a great new product for staining fences, called "5 Minute Fence Stain". The promise of a super easy stain job seemed too good to be true but I figured it was worth a shot so I bought 4 containers of it, supposed to be more than enough to handle the amount of fence I have. The idea is that it is a stain concentrate with the water removed. You hook it to your ordinary garden hose and spray, the water mixing with the stain.
Of course, anything that seems too good to be true usually is, and that was the case here. For one thing, it sprays out hard and very wet, splashing all over the place. For another it runs out way quicker than I would have imagined. It took me 3 bottles to do half the fence and it was way too light. I used the 4th to go back over it as best I could but I think it looks like crap. Never got to do the backside of the fence either. Now I think I'm going to have to do something completely different for the back, hope I can find something that matches closely to what's already there or I'll have to redo the entire thing.
On Saturday, Retro and I played in the 27 hole challenge at Door Creek. First 9 is best ball, 2nd 9 is combined net and 3rd 9 is a scramble. Of course, like idiots we walked in the excruciating heat. We kicked ass on the front 9 and shot an 8 under par 27, with Retro shooting a 43 and me a 40. That was good for a 3 way tie for best which netted us a whopping $14.25 after the split. The heat started getting us on the back and we stumbled quite a bit, with Retro dropping to a 52 and me a 47. After a quick bite to eat we went to the executive 9 for a scramble. We struggled mightily there too, coming in with a 35 (par 30). I'm not sure where we finished, somewhere in the top 15 I think.
Then on Sunday, dad and I played in the father/son tourney in Baraboo (his home course). It was an interesting format. Both father and son hit their tee shots, then played each other's second shot (so I was hitting his ball and he mine after our first shots). From there it was an alternate shot through the hole. We didn't play very well at all and shot 44/44 for 88. I did win 2 flag prizes for closest to the hole on a par 3, which netted me 2 sleeves of Top Flight balls, ooh boy. I should have had long drive on 18 too, blew by the marker by 40 yards but was 10 feet into the rough.
Got to watch episode 2 of "John from Cincinati" last night on HBO. I like this new show from David Milch (Deadwood). It's very different from other shows and intriguing.
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Maybe I'll have to watch John from Cincinati if it's by David Milch.
I'm not holding my breath for the last Deadwood. What was it 3 years ago?? f*ckers!
Deadwood is over dude, where have you been?
90 degree heat index? 90 is like an average actual temp nowadays for me. The humidity is what sucks donkey balls.
Yeah, I live in Wisconsin dude. We spend half the year in igloo's. It's totally the humidity. The heat is fine, doesn't bother me, it's the not being able to breath and sweating my balls off that really sucks.
man, i tried that 5-minute fence stain as well. it really sucks. i lost over $90 in the transaction because they wouldn't respond to my requests for a return. i think it is a sham. don't you? a few posters say it works...i think those are plants to get people to research it and buy it. no way it works like they say. i used a power sprayer and some stain from wmart and it looked great for less money than i handed to those low lifes at 5-min fence co.
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