two days of stuff-golf,run, phils and house

title starts the tale. up yesterday early enough to go play golf. told the work crew not to come so i could join the duffers group at bristow manor. plowed through the traffice and had a decent time and it didn't rain as predicted. played with ralph, jack and roger. jack won the money on the front nine and i won on the back so we kept the money in our carts, so to speak, which is always nice. had two birdies and 6 pars and an assortment of others, but overall not too bad as i try to recapture the game i left behind while we were in england. fast bumpy greens didn't help. hit a slightly choked down 4iron draw onto the green from 170 to get the back nine money; a shame david c wasn't there to yell "good shot". hope he is feeling ok.

anyway- after i stopped at several stores on the way home and then at the range to
chip and putt for a bit and then home to get some work done. a decent enough day.

and friday went out early and stayed out long enough to get 11 miles in and then spend some time with some friends/neighbors getting caught up. the crew didn't come on time so i worked around the house and did lots of gardening trying to get a year's worth done before winter. finally they came and worked for a few hours and headed out. they get the chance to fix up some of what they did when they come back, but at least we are moving in the right direction, as i continue to frustrate my boss by not being able to work. i have offered to quit or be fired so they could replace me, but not yet they say. won't help that next week i am gone and won't be able to work. the crew won't work either. a different crew will get some time instead and i get to go to penna. for a few days for my mom's birthday.

the 11 miles went ok today after a very slow start but once the legs were stretched out a bit the rest went ok and at least 7-8 of it was decent enough. the trail along the river was pretty and it was not really warm that early.

did get to the range tonight to chip and putt a bit and hot a fast large bucket of balls to work on tempo and drills. coming along as i continue to learn stuff and work on drills i got from mark and a few leftover from rick. still have hopes to get a little better. short game is coming around and i have some shots i didn't have last year. hit several good pitches and chips yesterday to reap some reward from all of the practice.

and that about wraps up most of it. usual other stuff in the daily chores and bills and house junk. soccer game tomorrow and golf on sunday. philly on monday, etc.

phils won today to take game two over the dodgers. phils-rays series would be a tv problem i am sure and the baseball gods must be praying for the red sox to win.

enough. have to meet gail in two minutes. will get more in on sunday as we will be back really late tomorrow night.

PS- our phones are down and the repairs are set for tomorrow in case anyone tried to call. will get to the emails then also as they all just came in from the last few days. seems the neighborhood lost phone service yesterday and not everybody got it back. what next?