Kathy returned from her trip from Colorado - she had a good time and enjoyed seeing the families again. She got to attend the high school graduation for her niece that was fun and reflective for her. She also got to spend some quality time with family members - the time went quickly and I am sure she was not able to do all the things she wanted due to the lack of time? She has enjoyed the reflective week end ready to get back in to the routine after a little R &R. This is a busy period at her work that they are going through some staff reductions which does not help the workload. Things will work out fine and the end of year closing will be over before she knows it.
I was able to get lots of chores done last week in Tracy. I did keep very busy and I did get most of the projects done that I had on my list. Most of the work in the yard was done as follow-up to the removal of the big trees in the yard. Those pesky big trees were definitely a pain and we are glad to be done with them. Neighbors liked the trees better than now but had little appreciation of the hassle and mess they created. One of my big projects was to clean up the golf balls that were accumulating in the garage - I think there may have been about 4500 to clean? Side issue, our washer went out so I had to clean out golf balls that were in the laundry room so they could get the old washer out and new one it. I ended up moving about half of those balls to the spare bedroom closet - Kathy purged is some time go and I am sure she had plans to putting something in it but the balls are now residing for hopefully a short term storage. Back to ball cleaning - I devoted 3 evenings ( 6 - 9) to cleaning balls, made a good dent in the backlog. I have about 300 soaking in the sink and another 10 bags (2000 balls) in the garage ready to get cleaned. I do have the balls listed for sale but don't seem to be having much luck with that this year. I need to find some place of offload a large batch of them. I do have the ideas about that and will start making contacts - - watch this space.
Lots of yard work here in Anderson this week end - routine lawn and weed removal. One project was to get rid of the blackberry plants that were burned down last Winter. Those critters are tenacious - got rid of the vines but the root remains and they are producing new growth already. I went back back and removed the roots for those plants and that should rid the area of future growth. The removal really is a 2 part process - remove the vine then the roots. It is much easier working with the roots don't have to deal with the prickly vines as much?
The cows are doing very good - they have really put on some weight in the last couple of weeks. We have lots of grass and they are enjoying it all. The fellow that is renting the pasture came over and seems very happy with the cows and their accommodations. Kathy and I have given them names already - each of them has a different personality. They are not like the others cows that were here - only one that had a personality was Blackie and she was a major pain the backside. These cows seem much more behaved and will be fine in the pasture.
I did get to play golf several times last week - cooler mornings and the wind blew hard each day. I am getting tired of the wind - seems to be pretty gentle when I start at 6:15 or so but by the time I finish up it is very strong. Easy to forget that the spring and summer does have lots of wind!? One of the course marshals wanted it clubs re-griped so I volunteered - he went to Mexico last week so I had his clubs. It was a easy project and I think I had it all done in a hour or so. The most difficult part is removing the old double stick tape from the club handle. The process is very straight forward. I think the course wanted bout $8 per club. He paid $28 for the grips and I am not charging him anything for my labor. He gets 12 re-grips for $28 that is a pretty good deal. I hope he likes the new grips. I talked him into the jumbo grips - hope he does not have much trouble adjusting?
Not much else for news - hope you all have a great week end and a wonderful week.
More later
Ron, Kathy, Tessie and Sammie ( the cat)
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