Monthly Archives: August 2012

Yield 2

There’s peppers and leeks and carrots to come but this is yield 2 for tomatoes at least two more like this still on the vine

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Hole in One!

On August 27th, just short of 6:30pm, I had a hole-in-one last night during our league play. 168yd par 3 #8 on the Village. Slight downwind. Pin was middle right position. I landed the green about 160yds with my 6-iron with a slight draw. It bounced once and gently rolled into the hole.

I’ve had so many shots come within an inch of going in that I expected it to nestle in tight. What a pleasant surprise when the ball disappeared. There was no doubt it was in.

I had 3 witnesses in my group from the league as well as another 4-some that was on the next tee-block.

The crazy thing is that somebody else had a hole-in-one the previous week during league play. One of the members of my 4some was also in that group.

I’m guessing not too many people have witnessed two hole in ones within a week of each other!

The good news is that the ace lowered my score enough to earn me max points for the leaderboard.

The ball was a refinished Titleist Pro V1x. Ball number: 2 – my lucky number. image

Bounty

Huge huge crop of tomatoes this year.  Reminds me of earlier years.  Remember to plant them in the same spot next year.perfect shade sun mix.

This photo is of the tip of the iceberg. I may not have to top up my jars using extra from the market!

The stressful hot summer really good for tomatoes and peppers

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100 Metres

It’s an argument that nobody can win.  Who is the greatest Olympian?  Winner of the decathlon, marathon?  22 medals in the pool?

Well, i’m the farthest from an Olympian so you are more than welcome to discredit my opinion.  But here it is:

swimming:  it is an extremely technical skill that not everybody has the luxury of being exposed to.  It’s not the most natural of sports.  Plus, there are wayyyyyyyyy too many medal events in swimming.  If you’re good at one, there’s a good chance you are capable of winning in the million other swimming events.  So i’m sorry Phelps, you are not the greatest Olympian.

the greatest Olympians can only come from running events.  The most primitive of skills.  raw.  Who can run faster than  who?

I give a huge nod to Jesse Owens.  He ran for gold in the most evil of landscapes in Berlin.  I wasn’t around then but it is one of the most amazing feats I can imagine.

But I don’t have to imagine what happened today.  I saw Usain Bolt defeat the fastest field in the history of the world in the 100m….to me the paramount event of the olypmics.  There is nothing more amazing than imagining what it takes to prepare and win an event that is over in less than 10 second.  It blows my mind.  There will never be any argument that can convince me that the winner of the 100 m is not the greatest Olympian of that yr.  And to win it 2 times in a row in record setting fashion with the greatest field ever assembled, well, sorry Phelps.

And the icing:  Bolt will probably win the 200m . that is staggering.  The dynamics between both events is huge.  I don’t even know how to compare it to what Phelps has to compete in.

I can drone on for hrs..  But plain and simple.  Running as fast as you can is second to none.  I was blessed to see, in my lifetime, an unbelievable display of sheer athleticism tonight.