More on golf...

Tonight was the closing social for the Ladies Association. Despite the lightning, thunder, and rain, it turned out to be quite a nice evening.

This year I was the historian, which meant carrying my camera while on the golf course and being the "annoying" person taking pictures of people and the main events. I then compiled a scrapbook of the golf year. It was fun. Next time (if there is one), I would do a few things different; like making sure my battery was charged (long story, sorry Les) and having incentives for other golfers to take pictures as well. Next year instead, I volunteered to be the secretary and the responsibilities (I am told) are not so big.

Me, Tora (president), Leslee (vice)

Autumn

Fall is in the air and yes, it really is in the air. Cooler temperatures, a woodsy smell and the sun lighting up the eastern mountains. Fall also seems to happen overnight. I love looking out my front windows in the evening and seeing this:

What a beautiful time of year! I will spend the next few weeks enjoying the leaves changing color, the warm rain and that frosty bite each morning when I wake up; even though it means the real cold weather and snow are right around the corner.

Funny Dam Story

Welcome everyone... today our family went up Steep Cliff Canyon to see our dam project.

A couple of weeks ago my boys, who are now known as my dam boys, tried their best to redirect a stream from fully flowing to one side of some dam sticks. They did this by setting up some dam mud and piling up some dam rocks and a dam log in front of the first dam flow. It looked like it was going to work, but when we came back today, there wasn't any dam water on the other side like they had hoped. Well, I couldn't just sit back today (like I did the last dam time), so I started piling on my own dam sticks and stones in a different dam spot. We will have to see in another couple of weeks if my dam abilities are any better...

Now I am about to show you all the dam pictures, so please do not wander off this dam page and also feel free to leave any dam comments.

DAM DAY #1

DAM DAY #2

Now can anyone tell me where I can get some dam bait?

Go Aggies

We were really looking forward to a nice wheeler ride today and the weather was certainly cooperating but we decided to go to the Aggie football game instead. Why? Well, I have had a "belly" problem for the last couple of days and I wasn't comfortable going up into the woods and not having the comforts of modern plumbing available to me... Too much info? Too bad!

I haven't been to an Aggie game since '97 and I had totally forgot what fun it is to go and watch live football. It was a great time and our boys loved it. They even got to meet Big Blue... I didn't watch the entire game because, seriously, there are just too many people around to entertain me. Coin slots and fake boobs, big hair, drunk college kids and chubby men with their faces painted... what more can you ask for? You ought to be thankful I forgot my camera at home.

The Red Bull

The Red Bull




This afternoon, I overheard the following conversation between Justin and Jill:

Justin: Let your dog out.
Jill: No, he can get out of the garage now that the door is broken.
Justin: Well that is better than him peeing in the house.
Jill: No, it is not.
Jill then reluctantly gets off the couch and goes to let the dog out the back door, where she waits for him to get his business done. While she is waiting...
Jill: We really need to put up a barrier out here.
Justin: We had a barrier and you drove through it. It was called a garage door.

My man is a funny, funny man.

It Wasn't Me!

As I have said before, my kids always give me something to blog about...

I purchased a new dining set last weekend. A teacher at work was moving his mother-in-law across town and she was selling her table. Since the price was right and Jace is about done with the high chair, we decided it was a good time.

It has been sitting in my garage (remember, I can't open the garage door) until tonight when we finally took it apart and moved it in through the back door. It looks marvelous! Anyway, we were taking the old table apart and this is what Justin found written underneath...

MOM IS U WACKO

I think it was Jill since we bought the table when she was about 7 years old. She has no recollection of doing it and is pretty adamant that she didn't do it. Dax however, says it was him but I have my doubts that he could spell the word "wacko" correctly. It couldn't have been Jace. Maybe it was Justin. What do you think?

I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud

I didn't sleep too well last night; the wind, thunder, lightening and torrential downpour woke me up and kept me up. I had realized around 4 this morning that I had left my golf clubs outside the garage (can't open the door remember) and I had to run out to prevent the bag from filling with water. That being said, I give you another L-A-M-O post.

I took this picture that last time we went 4-wheeling. I love puffy clouds... Edmonton has the BEST clouds ever. I think it's because it is so flat and there isn't anything breaking them apart. My friend and I would just lay on this one hill by my house and watch them pass by.