Great Week for Golf

Maybe last winter was a fluke. We just finished two weeks in the 70's and 80's with next week's forecast lookin'good. My golf was also in the 80's as I finally broke 90 on Tuesday, shooting 46-42 on Nancy Lopez Legacy course. We got a little confused at the turn as we thought we should go from Ashley to Erinn, only to find out we should be on Torri. You see, most championship courses in The Villages, which have 27 holes, play alphabetically. On Palmer Legends, we go from Cherry Hill to Laurel to Riley Grove. But not on Lopez! Seems there you go according to the birth order of Nancy's three daughters. :-) On Wednesday, playing on a different course with the neighborhood mixed group, I shot 44. The key to the game that day was not only shooting a low score but trying to 1-putt. This resulted in subtracting a stroke from the team score. I had 4 pars and 4 1-putts. Guess I should put the clubs away but, hey, I'm thinking I might have a chance to shoot my age some day, when I reach my 80's. I read today about a guy who's 84 and shot 72. Don't count me out! Yeah, I know, the picture is Ricky who sent Phil packing yesterday, but he's dressed in pink and I thought you might think it was me since I've let my hair go to it's natural color. :-)

One problem yesterday was the clouds which prohibited us from seeing the launch of the space shuttle. My neighbor's husband went over near the space center and sat in a kayak to watch the launch. Haven't talked to him to find out how it was from that location.

Time to watch our taped version of Survivor. :-)

Beautiful Week

This past week is more like the weather I expected to have in Central Florida. It was sunny and warm all week. Earlier in the week, I actually considered going to New Mexico as my granddaughters have tomorrow off for President's Day but I didn't want to leave such nice weather. As it turns out, Los Alamos weather hasn't been as cold as the forecast earlier in the week. Such is life!

I played Mahjong and Bocce Monday afternoon, golf Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday morning with my Spanish ladies who served us Pasoli for lunch celebrating Valentine's Day. Friday afternoon I joined four neighbor ladies for a fashion show benefiting the Moffitt Cancer Center.


Saturday I spent seven hours working at a garage and bake sale to raise money for our basketball and volleyball teams' trip to National Senior Games in Houston, Texas in June. We are going to have some other fund raisers, such as Bingo and a pancake breakfast.

What can I say??

I realize it's been a couple weeks since I last posted. Since many of my activities these days are repeats, I didn't want to bore you. Let's see if I can think of something "new."

Hmmm...not much new. Arne spends hours improving his art skills and taking classes. I must say, he is getting his old skills back and soon I'll be posting pictures of his work.

I attended a Genealogy class at the Life Long Learning College last Friday. It was an Introduction so we were given Ancestral Charts and many websites on which to do research. I have been checking out the 1900-1930 US Census and discovered that on my father's side, my great-great paternal grandfather and grandmother came to the US from Germany, settling in Illinois. My great-great grandfather (Danner) on the maternal side was born in Switzerland, his wife was born in Germany and they also settled in Illinois. I'll have to do some deeper research to delve further into my mother's lineage, since she was born in Denmark.(Picture-Grandparents, John & Lula Kalkwarf)

Arne and I have seen three of the Oscar-nominated movies the past two weeks. We saw True Grit, Winter Bones and The King's Speech. They were all good, all different. I think Colin Firth will probably win Best Actor for King's Speech.

We invited a Chicago couple over for the Super Bowl. We had all hoped the Bears would be there so instead three of us were pulling for the Packers, especially Rogers. Glad he won MVP and hope he doesn't change with his new super stardom.

I continue to enjoy teaching the ESL class. The Spanish ladies are fun and keep me grounded and appreciative of what I have. They have so little but always have a big smile. I learned a week ago that one husband lost his job three months ago and another lost his just last week. I know I have at least one US citizen in the class as she told me about the test she had to take. As for the others, I don't ask, don't tell.

I played just 9 holes of golf this morning. It was very cold and 2 of our 3 groups quit after the 4th hole so they could get a rain check. I was playing with a Canadian and one from South Dakota so they wanted to finish the front 9. I'm so glad we got a Curtis cab on our golf cart so I could close the doors. This helped tremendously. The other gal had a heater in her golf cart. I've looked at the heaters at Ace Hardward three times. I always walk away because of the $94.99 price tag. Today, Arne said he's concerned about the safety so glad I didn't buy one.