Connie – My game has changed this year, it went from ok for an old guy to I need a calculator to keep score. I think it happened in July when I turned 78. I distance went down, my joints decided it was time to make me feel even older, and my game went to hell in a hand basket. I bought some new irons that would fix everything. Now I look great with my new irons but still hit them like my old irons. When I think I am ready to take up almost anything else, I have a great game. I think the Golf Gods are screwing with me.
In 1957, Kim Knauf and I (then an eager, 12-year-old geologist in Roswell) were on the USGS's first exploration of "New Carlsbad Cavern." Kim's dad was the District Engineer in charge of the Artesia, New Mexico office of the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and he had arranged the trip for USGS geologists. The purpose of the field trip was to explore a geologically unique cavern that was later named "Lechuguilla Cave."
OK Bill, that's definitely not a picture of me that you put on my post ! Wish I could read who it is!
And Nova I hear you on trying new clubs - hate to tell you it's not the clubs .....🤪
My game took a vacation and never returned about 4 years ago. With operations and such it probably will never return. Earlier this year, I went to the practice range with my golf buddy. He still had a smooth swing and good distance. My turn. He said, with much enthusiasm and guffaw, "You are standing too close to the ball after you hit it!" What a friend.
Nova - hilarious, but what a sweet thing to say ! 🤪
Bob, Sorry to hear you've had to give up golf .... of course, at our age just be glad ya can swing a golf club even if only on the driving range !! It's hard to keep playing 18 - when you only count score on about 4 or 5 of them 😉 🤣🤣🤣
Sen.Tuberville is keeping 100s of military promotions in check that come to a senate committee he "serves" on for approval. He alone blocks each one. This outrageous victimization and even dangerous theater (the old coach loves the attention) is pure, rotten D.C. politics. Correct me if I am mistaken, but the military is not intended to be a political punching bag in the U.S. Senate, especially for a political crusade by one Senator. Tuberville for the lead in "Send in the Clowns."
(Below was written by a Fox News person.)
The Hill. 9/25/23
Does Tommy Tuberville hate the troops or just women?
by Juan Williams, Opinion Contributor - 09/25/23 9:30 AM ET (The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill) (Not all paragraphs shown---see link below for full article-- DS)
Former President Trump pushed a hot button inside the GOP when he criticized the six-week abortion ban signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as “terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”
Trump takes credit for putting judges on the Supreme Court who voted to end a half-century of constitutional protection for abortion. But now Trump is saying flat out that unless Republicans opposed to abortion “come up with the right number of weeks” after which to restrict abortion, they are going to lose elections.
At that moment, Trump should have held up a picture of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R). On the Senate floor last week Tuberville failed to get close to articulating why a woman in the military doesn’t deserve to choose an abortion if she wants it.
He can’t explain why his personal view on abortion gives him the right to block hundreds of military promotions, harming the U.S. military by preventing commanders from putting warriors in the right location to do their best work. (There is currently no commandant of the Marines b/c of Tubby; sic).
He keeps repeating that his goal is to force the Pentagon to end its health care policy of compensating female servicemembers who travel out of the states where they are stationed for abortions. But Tuberville has fumbled every attempt to justify his targeting of the military in his divisive, culture-war fight over abortion.
“Any claim that holding up the promotions of top officers does not directly damage the military is wrong — plain and simple,” the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force wrote in an unprecedented op-ed in the Washington Post earlier this month.
Tuberville’s failed attempt to explain himself looks even worse because he has never served in the military.
Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), who has served in the military, has called him out: “[Tuberville] mentioned that these are not officers who are warfighters, that these are desk jockeys in the Pentagon, but the reality is these folks have been warfighters for 20 years,” Garcia said. “These are the folks that I flew with in combat operations…they’re looking to continue that service, and they’re being compelled not to because of Senator Tuberville.”
Christine Wormuth, the secretary of the Army, also tore apart Tuberville’s weak attempt to justify interfering with military operations. (and so on)
Tuberville can’t speak to that reality.
He is, however, winning hosannas and plaudits from far-right, pro-life activists and getting invitations to appear on conservative talk shows to rail against what he calls the “woke military.”
It wasn’t that long ago that congressional Republicans criticized anyone who did not stand up for the military as unpatriotic, unworthy of the sacrifices made by the 1 percent of Americans in uniform, and willing to fight to protect the U.S.
It used to be that Republicans revered the military. They lambasted Vietnam War protesters who disrespected soldiers returning from the war......
Tuberville can’t speak to that reality.
He is, however, winning hosannas and plaudits from far-right, pro-life activists and getting invitations to appear on conservative talk shows to rail against what he calls the “woke military.”
It wasn’t that long ago that congressional Republicans criticized anyone who did not stand up for the military as unpatriotic, unworthy of the sacrifices made by the 1 percent of Americans in uniform, and willing to fight to protect the U.S.
It used to be that Republicans revered the military. They lambasted Vietnam War protesters who disrespected soldiers returning from the war.
Now Tuberville is treating the military with contempt. He reduces America’s fighters to powerless pawns in a political fight over abortion.
Tuberville’s lack of respect for people in uniform sinks lower than the loathing Trump once expressed for a military hero, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Trump mocked McCain for being captured and enduring five years as a Prisoner of War in Vietnam. He trashed McCain as only a “war hero because he was captured” and added, “I like people who weren’t captured.”
Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy achieved a sizeable following during the Red Scare by baselessly accusing many Americans of being communist agents or sympathizers. It wasn’t until McCarthy started hurling these baseless libels at members of the U.S. military that public opinion began to turn against him. Republicans shut down his investigations and consigned him to infamy. His very name turned into a pejorative, “McCarthyism.”
The tipping point was the famous Army-McCarthy hearings, in which Army lawyer Joseph Welch famously said to McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
To repurpose Welch’s question for 2023: “Have you no sense of decency, Senator Tuberville?”
Juan Williams is an author and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.
Hi Bill .... Well first of all, I grip first with my left hand as I'm right handed ! In this picture it looks like the guy must be left-handed ? Maybe I have been gripping my clubs wrong all these years 🤣🤣🤣🤣
PEEING ON MY FLOWERS A little old lady was walking down the street dragging two large plastic garbage bags behind her. One of the bags was ripped and every once in awhile a $20 bill fell out onto the sidewalk. Noticing this, a policeman stopped her, and said, "Ma'am, there are $20 bills falling out of that bag." "Oh, really? Darn it!" said the little old lady. "I'd better go back and see if I can find them. Thanks for telling me, Officer." "Well, now, not so fast," said the cop. " Where did you get all that money? You didn't steal it, did you?" "Oh, no, no", said the old lady. "You see, my back yard is right next to a Golf course. A lot of Golfers come and pee through a knot hole in my fence, right into my flower garden. It used to really tick me off. Kills the flowers, you know. Then I thought, 'why not make the best of it?' So, now, I stand behind the fence by the knot hole, real quiet, with my hedge clippers. Every time some guy sticks his thing through my fence, I surprise him, grab hold of it and say, 'O.K., buddy! Give me $20 or off it comes!' "Well, that seems only fair," said the cop, laughing ."OK. Good luck! Oh, by the way, what's in the other bag?" "Not everybody pays.
When I am gripping a golf club, I use the same grip on a putter, driver, iron etc. There are many different ways to grip a club, this seems to work for me.
This is how I grip my putter when I am putting with my Scotty Cameron or TaylorMade Spider putter. Scotty Cameron is a blade putter and TaylorMade is a mallet putter. Sometimes I prefer the mallet putter other times the blade putter. Sorry about the hairy legs, I must of forget to shave this morning. Note to self - don't pee on flowers when golfing.
If he is smart
He puts the money in his wife’s hand with the rest of the money he has in his wallet and says, thank you for the great meals you cook. Make sure you stop and get yourself something while you are out.
My wife's aunt went through this also. Afterwords she always had cash stashed around her house up until she died. Our family travelled to California from Oklahoma for work and travelled back to Oklahoma in 1947 and the car broke down in Artesia with no money to fix it. Dad got work in the fields and then painted houses. We finally left New Mexico after I graduated from RHS in 1965.
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