There is still a heavy fog so we can't see very far on the driving range. The putting green is steep and fast; not really much practice putting going on, it is more like billiard angles. The starter on the first tee says they flooded three times this year. In the recent flood the employees tubed on swollen Wilbarger Creek. There is no wind like when we played here with Valerie and Dolph about a year ago. Therefore my score was better but conditions were very wet and you couldn't get a good lie. The course is a short 4,898 yards for me with a difficult course rating of 130. Bob and Steve played the white tees at 6,047 yards and a slope of 126. The soggy conditions made it a tough day. But we had some shining moments anyway.
The sun tried to peek through eventually on the back so it was plenty warm. We were meeting Glenda this evening so we said goodbye to Steve after eighteen. We got a paper and a bite to eat and went home for quick showers. I made a Homemade Gourmet BLT dip and we packed the laptop and went over to Glenda's. She was playing with her new toy, a DVR (digital video recorder), that was installed today. Pretty cool. We can make snacks and take a break anytime we want!
I did my business on the laptop. We broke for coffee, tea and her Butterscotch Bars-very tasty! When West Wing came on at 8:00 we had dip and chips. Then we opened our package from Patti that was delivered to Glenda's earlier in the week. We all oo'd and ah'd over our large bedroom window covering; a gorgeous mural of The Beauty in the pines with the sun coming up over the 'levee.' (Anyway, Patti, that's my interpretation!) The detail is fantastic!
According to a recent article in the paper in Austin my quilted window coverings are imbued with the 'wabi-sabi' spirit. Being surrounded by goods that convey the hands and heart that made them is good for the soul. The roots of wabi-sabi are in Zen Buddhism and the Japanese tea ceremony. Wabi-Sabi is the Japanese tradition of self-expression using items with relevance to one's life journey, and customarily acquired from nature or as gifts. Think of it more as a mind-set, less as a decorating style. It allows for some personal touches and pieces of your own history, such as mysteries you adored as a child, or things you enjoy as a hobby. I feel quite certain that Patti's lovingly designed quilted window coverings, made in motiffs of fly fishing, golf, wine, postcards and RVing, meet all of these requirements. Glenda wants me to bring all three window covering that Patti made for us to her quilting bee for show-and-tell next week. I got Patti on the chat room just after we opened her package. It was nice to 'visit' for a bit.
Bob and I chatted with Glenda for too long and enjoyed our visit. She has to travel tomorrow so we shouldn't have kept her up so late. We headed home at 11:15. I fell asleep in the recliner writing my journal. It must have been the golf that wore me out.
It was still 66 degrees at 10:00 p.m.