Home and Abroad: Weekend at Susies

As this is my last weekend in the UK for awhile, I headed up to Bloxam to see Susie and Mike. As it was a fore casted to be sunny, and low 60's, I decided to try my favourite golf course, Rye Hill, to see if they could give me a tee off time. I was given a slot immediately upon arrival. Amazing as it sounds, I have never been turned away, no matter when I show-up. I was quite fortunate this weekend and no one had teed off for the last half hour, so there was a big gap ahead of me. If I end up a single, I have to wait a lot. For the most part I get joined up with another group, of if I go alone and it is slow, I catch up to a twosome or threesome and join them.

This week I decided I was probably not going to catch up unless I played fast. So, before I started, in honour of the Ryder Cup, I decided to play a two ball, use the best score. As a result, it took me a bit longer and I did not catch anyone until about the 16th hole. Also, to fully get the Ryder Cup experience, I played lift, clean and place and allowed gimmes. (as a result of this I had a pretty good score..my best so far)

It was cool, a bit windy, and some signs of fall color ... a very pleasant day.

I could not resist taking another try at creative photography using the close up feature on my camera. I do not know what these are called, but they are beautiful.

On this hole you can see I had both balls in contention...for a birdie . Alas, we missed both, took a par.

I am not sure what this means. There is no place to put any money.

Even though I was playing two balls, I played fairly quickly, finishing in about 3 1/2 hours. On a few holes near the end I took a chance to sit and enjoy the view. This is the par 3 12th hole.

After golf I went to Susie's. This summer, Mike and Susie had their driveway redone. Most homes in their area had driveways resurfaced, and enlarged years ago, mostly to accommodate the growing trend of more than one car in the family. As Mike and Susie only had one car, this was not necessary. Anyway, Mike finally admitted that one or two cars, he needed to resurface. I am not the only visitor that comes to their house. Rowena visits at Christmas, Mikes mother occasionally drives over. So they had the driveway widened at the same time they resurfaced. I think it looks pretty good.

On Saturday night we had a lovely steak dinner and watched the Ryder Cup. Then...on Sunday morning, this was the view from my bedroom window.... After looking at this I quickly decided this was a good day to go back to bed and sleep some more....

About 9:30 I went downstairs....This was the view from the living room... the Coi pool is almost overflowing... Ryder Cup is not the only place it is raining.