Arizona is calling

Yep, Arizona is calling. I went outside this morning and it was raining again. Sue was up in Lynnwood and drove home in a rain storm. She said the wiper would not keep up. But at least the trees are pretty. Took this picture of the rain and the busy down spout.

We will be packing Snuffy this weekend and getting ready to leave. We plan on hitting the road Tuesday. I hope to go down thru Jackson, Wyoming and then thru Utah to Arches National Park. A couple stops in Nevada, like Laughlin and then on to Happy Trails. The weather will dictate which we go. Be happy to be out on the road again. Now I'll be able to put more stuff on the Blog. Charlie will be happy to be south as well. He even needed a rain hat to go outside today.

Last golf event for the season

This was the last of our summer couples golf tournaments. The Wenatchee Golf and Country Club Champagne Couples event. Wenatchee is a very nice club located on the hill in Est Wenatchee. The front and back nines are a bit different. Thier greens are *^$&()&*&^% terrible, fast with breaks that are extreme. Local knowledge makes a whole lot of difference. Sue and I have done pretty well this year in these things. We have been in the money in the first 4. When we went to Moses Lake we said 3 out of four isn't bad and we ended up 4 for 4. So our saying this time was 4 out of 5 isn't bad. Well that's the way it ended up. We scored a zero. We played badly, but we had fun. Here are a couple shots of the course. One is Jim showing us the new seat on a tee box.


While we were playing on Friday with a nice couple from Meridian Valley in the practise round we encountered a red squirrel that was in distress. Maria has apparently raised abandoned squirrels so she picked it up and moved it over to a tree and gave him water. She felt he was dehydrated. Who knows, he was gone the next day.


We stayed this trip at the Wenatchee Confluence State Park. This is a Washington State Park. It sits on the point where the Wenatchee river meets the Columbia. (Confluence) This was a very nice park. We stayed in two sites because we messed up our reservations. The rangers were very nice and fixed everything in a very full park. First spot was the best as we overlooked the Columbia river.

The second site was very nice as well. All the sites in the park are big with lots of grass and room. Charlie had a ball getting to romp in the grass. Sunday after the tournament was over we went home and got some fire wood. After a laid back afternoon we lit a fire an got to smell like smoke. It's been a long time since we had a fire. It was very nice just sitting around and relaxing.

As you can see, there are three chairs out for the fire. I laughed at Glen and Janet Olson when we were at the ocean a couple years ago when they has chairs out for their two dogs. Well guess what. Now we have a chair for Charlie.

As I most always leave with Charlie. Here he is getting ready for the BIG trip. We are planning on leaving in mid October for the sun of Arizona. We are going to go down thru Wyoming and Utah to look at Jackson Hole and Arches National Park. I want to leave on the 15th but Sue wants to do a golf thing on the 21st. I'll probably loose. Just as long as we get to Phoenix in time for the races. It will be a fun winter. We will be home for Christmas then back south until the 1st of March. I'm getting excited and ready to go. I'll get to do a lot more blogging while we are gone.

Home 54539, Wenatchee 54560, Home 54864 Trip 325 Miles

WOOF

Saturday was WOOF day. Herb and Phillis invited a bunch of us to their condo to watch the Huskies game. Most everyone thought the day would end in "Well they played Ok---but" Little did we know what was going to happen.



This was the watchers. Herb and Phillis with some help for June put together a great afternoon. The bar was good and the company great. We even had a special presentation to Ron Hindman for his "Hole in One" last week on #11. As one would expect Ron soaked up the attention. Herb said he has been apart of four foursomes that have had a hole in one. Congratulations Ron.



As the afternoon went on, everybody got more and more excited about the game. We had to be careful that when something good happened that no one got hurt with the jumping.


And then it happened the Huskies actually won. As can be noted by the picture below the fans went wild as did the crowd at the Breitenborns.

Afterwords every body had a good dinner. Sue and I had to split for home to meet Jeff and his new girl friend Trish. So they all got barbecued ribs and all sorts of other stuff. Here is Phillis our hostess with the mostess. Thank you Herb and Phillis for a wonderful afternoon.

From Tacos to Sagebrush

Things move fast at Twin Lakes. 1st it was Taco Tuesday, that was last week. You know the weekly gathering of the clan. Just a few pictures of sum of the bunch. The subject was somewhat the upcoming weekend at Moses Lake (which was last weekend)





















We had a whole bunch of couples from Twin Lakes at the annual "Sagebrush Shootout" at the Moses Lake Golf Club. They do appreciate it that we get such a big turn out for their tournament. Some of that is most likely because of Frankie Stephens as she use to hang out there a lot. In fact Friday was her birthday as well as Cindy one of the golf pros. Got Cindy's picture but missed Frankie. Happy birthday both.



The Sagebrush shoot out is always a lot of fun. We get into the "Full meal Deal" That means we pay to get into Speed Golf, The Horse Race, Tournament hone pots and all the stuff. This year the full deal was $165 bucks. If you do well you can get quite a few bucks. Just ask Tom Nolan. The staff at Moses Lake Cindy and Mike do a great job and a lot of work to make this one of the better tournaments of the year. Thanks Guys. See you next year.



We had a gathering of a few inside on Friday night after speed golf. The outside deck was full. By the way we played 18 holes of golf in 16 minutes and 40 seconds. John Ward had the luck times. He got to buy a few drinks. Thanks John.



The horse race was as usual. Like 30 some teams all playing at once. As you can see it is a bit of a gang. You have to watch out for flying balls everywhere. I was trying to get out of someones way and almost got hit by John Ward. My pardner and I were eliminated after the first cut. Oh well there is always next year.







We stayed at Suncreast RV park again. There was us, the Baileys and The Rodias. The weather was good and we spent a lot of time out side. Charlie got into some thorny things and thought he was going to die. He survived. Mommy saved him. I held him down and got bit. Not bad, he was in turmoil. Poor puppy.







I didn't get all the results, but we did have some winners from Twin Lakes. Sue and I got a third in our division. I should have gotten more results. Anyway we had a good time. We got back today about noon. Our next trip is to Wenatchee for another tournament on the 26 and 27th. Then it will be getting ready for the trip south. I will get to do a lot more posting when we leave. Keeps me out of trouble. I leave you with the dog. Happy again.


Trip Home 54,173, Moses Lake 54,351, Home 54,529--Total 356

Back Home

We are back home now. After our golfing weekend in the Tri Cities we went to Portland. We stayed at the Jantzen Beach RV Park on Hayden Island just across the boarder from Washington. They have a nice park with two pools and a lot of other stuff. We just spent the night.

The reason for the trip was I had to finish up looking at a boat that was nearing completion. Sue and I saw the boat last April when it was mostly just a hull. Now it is in the water and just about ready to head to Mexico. The owners/builders Chris and Bill Brees are really nice people. Bill showed me around and Chris gave Sue a tour. This boat is a power catamaran that is 62 feet long and about 20 feet wide. All aluminum construction. Twin 200 hp John Deer Diesel motors. Generator, water maker and a whole lot of other stuff. The plan to travel to Mexico for the winter and Alaska for the summer. Sounds like fun.

After working for a bit we went back to the RV Park and went for a swim. After dinner we went for a walk around the place down to the river. Jantzen Beach is a small community. The RV Park is a small part of it. Mostly it is an old style trailer park. They call them Park Models now. There are quite a few of the trailers that sit right on the river with a great view. It was interesting looking around as I remember living in a 10 x 50 trailer a long time ago. Sue, I and Charlie liked the walk. Charlie was in sniffing heaven. Tuesday we drove home and arrived about 1 PM. Next time out will be Moses Lake for another golf tournament.

Left August 12, 2009, Start 53562 Home. Arrived at Elensburg 53680, at Pasco 53792 at Jantzen Beach 53025 and back at Home 54169 on August 18, 2009 Total trip 607 Miles

A fun weekend

Another golfing weekend is past. Meadow Springs is a great place to play ad the members we have meant are really a nice bunch of folks. Saturday we played well but self destructed in the last 5 holes. We went from 6 under to 3 under. (#^#&%&$%@$&%&$#). We were lucky as a lot of the scores were high. We had Net 69 which put us in the top 10 of 37 players.

Sunday was another beautiful day with the temps around 85. We played with another couple from Meadow Springs. We did better and shot a net 65, which was enough to get a tie for 3rd net in our division. I guess this makes us 3 for 3 this year.

Amy and Jerry

Not that I want to rub in in, but we bet Baileys 5, 5, and 5. $5 for the first day, $5 for the second day and $5 overal. That's a total of $15 bucks if you win it all. I really wanted to stop at the store and get them a sympathise card as they had a bad weekend. Ken was a bit upset that they had to give us 7 strokes each day. (I'm the Twin Lakes Sandbagged now since the Club Championship), but as I said they had a bad weekend. Thanks for the money Ken. You can get it back next time. :) :) :)

They really do it up good here. Last nights dinner was ummie. They have a guy who sings and does a great show, specially for the folks from the 50s and 60s. The theme was Beach Party. Look at this really cool couple.

After golf they had everything set up for lunch a a bunch of drawings, awards and all that sort of stuff. We won 1st team Saturday and 2nd team today. Tie for third in our division Net. Dan and Mary Gleason sored good in 1st division as did All and Joanne Schriber (past Twin Lakers) won low net. Twin Lakes showed up well.

Back at the homestead we watched Tiger lose. We then sat in the shad of the awning and visited with Ken & Elaine. We talked about the tournament and I tried not to dissect every hole. We did talk a lot about dogs.

As with all event, Every thing must move on. Tomorrow we will move to Hyden Island in Portland where I have a bit of a job. (Ugg Work) Then we will be home Tuesday. As you can see Charlie has a lot of sympathy. Ha..Ha...

Another Golfing Adventure

We are off. This was our normal stop in Ellensburg at the Days Inn. Sue was cooking after our trip to the pool and hot tub. Hot tub was nice but the pool was COLD. Oh well still an nice break in the road. We left Wednesday afternoon and stayed there. After a nice breakfast we were off to Richland.

This time its Meadow Springs in Richland, Washington. This is our fourth trip here. Meadow Springs is a very nice golf course. Greens are really fast and the rough is like wire. It really requires a rescue club to have any hope of getting out to the short stuff.

We are staying at Sandy Heights R.V. Resort, which is a KOA Park. The facility is nice with a lot of permanent residents. A little close to the freeway so it is a bit noise. It's a clean place and Charlie likes it, so all is well. About 10 minutes to the golf course.

We did a combination dinner last night with Ken and Elaine. We all brought steaks. Sue made a salad and Elaine did corn. Ken cooked the steaks. All was really good. It was really nice to just hang out and visit.

After dinner the girls walked Charlie and Ken and I did the dishes. We of course did a bang up job. Note the quality of the finished product.

We played our practice round today with Ken and Elaine. The weather was good. A bit overcast and around 77. That is very nice for around here. It's suppose to be in the mid 80s this weekend. That will be great. Last year it was in the mid to high 90s and that was hot. We have quite a few from Twin Lakes here. Besides us and the Baileys, there are also Dan and Mary Gleason, John and Linda Ward from Twin Lakes and also our friends Darrell and Moe are . suppose to be here. They play from Willow Run. After golf we had our customary trip to the bar.

New friends Mark and Joyce Garand and Kevin and Lilah Amos, all from Capitol City) followed us around the course. They also joined us after golf as well as at the Motor Homes later in the day. All in all a enjoyable day.

As we all know the family pet Charlie was back at home with his legs crossed. I wounder how one can cross four legs and still bounce in the air when he sees you. Anyway, he was glad we were home.



Tomorrow will be the tournament. We get to start with Mimosa or Screw Drivers. 8:30 Shotgun. Wish us luck.