| OT What are your Memorial Day weekend plans? Plus a homework assignment...

[PurlJam]

Played nine today at 41 tripling the seventh. First time I have a triple bogey in A LONG time.

Hold my beer.

 

[TerryP]

I've actually done that to keep the club face closed. Even changed up my grip from being interlocked to sort of like a baseball one. It's helped. Still slicing it though. Just need more repetition.

I'm telling you...95% of those who slice don't keep their arms compact. You WILL lose some distance with my towel suggestion...you won't find your balls in the rough. They'll be in the short stuff...

 

[Bammerboy321]

I'm telling you...95% of those who slice don't keep their arms compact. You WILL lose some distance with my towel suggestion...you won't find your balls in the rough. They'll be in the short stuff...

Yeah I've heard of doing that before. It has been storming up here in Huntsville, but I may go to the range today and try that out if it clears up.

 

[64Tide]

@It Takes Eleven, so you were there during the Reisener years?

 

[TerryP]

Yeah I've heard of doing that before. It has been storming up here in Huntsville, but I may go to the range today and try that out if it clears up.

There's an old idiom about your eyes being bigger than your stomach. The same thing applies to this game. It's great to be putting on a 5par in two...but it's just as safe to be putting in three.

I can cut the corner on this hole...giving me, 150-170 to the green on two. But, I don't. Look at #11

Crowfield Golf Club, Goose Creek, SC

The 18-hole Crowfield course at the Crowfield Golf Club facility in Goose Creek, features 7,003 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 73.7 and it has a slope rating of 139 on Bermuda grass. Designed by Bob Spence, the Crowfield golf course opened in 1990. Troy...

www.golflink.com

 

[It Takes Eleven]

@It Takes Eleven, so you were there during the Reisener years?

Yes, tried to play baseball, but that didn't get very far.

 

[64Tide]

Played vs UM while at Jeff State and Bham Southern when he was there. Once he pulled a pitcher in like the 4 inning of a fall double header. He told him to run foul poles until he told him to stop. Kid was still running at end of second game.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Played vs UM while at Jeff State and Bham Southern when he was there. Once he pulled a pitcher in like the 4 inning of a fall double header. He told him to run foul poles until he told him to stop. Kid was still running at end of second game.

I broke my hand the summer I graduated and missed the second level all-star stuff and summer league. Watching him run the players who fell short up and down those brick streets, carrying their mattresses on their heads, made just working to cover my college expenses seem a bit more comfortable.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Saw this late last night... I'll throw it in here... Navy Women's Lacrosse team...

 

[TerryP]

Yes. Had him for two classes, zoology and comparative vertebrate anatomy. In comparative, he railed over the administration not approving his funding request to have the twenty microscopes in our lab cleaned. He said, "the trustees just approved the construction of our third theater on campus. It costs $150 to have a microscope professionally cleaned, $3,000 for them all. Request denied. Do you know how many theater and music majors I'm going to have to fail in Biology 100 (the only mandatory science class for non-majors) over $3,000." He had a take no prisoners approach to outside students, but he was a heck of a professor to us.

When I attended Montevallo, he hadn't written With the Old Breed, never mentioned his service, and none of us knew anything about it. His family prompted him to write that book from the notes he'd written in his Bible - a shooting offense for an enlisted man - after I'd graduated. I was in a hotel room somewhere, getting ready to go to a bank examination, had a morning show on the TV and saw/heard him being interviewed. I never knew that side of him.

We never know who we're encountering day to day, good or bad.

this is still flooring me

 

[rick4bama]

We did not much today!

 

[rick4bama]

Of all the photos for today! This one has tug at my heart!

 

[It Takes Eleven]

this is still flooring me

I've had the opportunity to encounter people with a pretty good span of influence, but they all fall shy of the personal sacrifice of our veterans.

That being said, one of my favorite experiences involves a bank CEO who retired from a half trillion dollar bank, somewhere in the top six to eight in the nation, depending on how you measure it. I've never met a more authentic leader at that level, just total class. He went with his Sunday School class on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, helping build a pediatric healthcare facility, brick by brick. As they finished their time there, they went into town to an ice cream parlor to celebrate their efforts. They're all enjoying their ice cream and the banker notices there is a lady looking at him, smiling. She gets up and comes over to their table and asks, "are you Kelly King?". He answers yes, and she replies, "some years ago, you gave a speech in New Orleans that was very meaningful to me, and I wanted you to know that." Kelly tells me, "I remember that trip, I'd taken the corporate plane down and the airport was fogged in, no way to land, the pilot went around four times, finally telling me this was our last chance to land. Final approach, the fog cleared, we set down, but I was late to the event, I had no time to interact with the audience, and I had a cold and felt terrible. I soldiered through my speech, and my commitments for later in the day meant I was ushered off the stage with no further interaction, heading right back to the airport. I felt like a failure."

Fast forward, here is a lady in the Dominican Republic telling him what an impact his speech had on her, asking, "why are you here?". Kelly said, "we've just built a children's healthcare facility, but we need some doctors." She smiled and said, "my husband is head of pediatric medicine at our nation's primary hospital, I think we can get you some doctors."

There may be coincidences in our world, but I'd like to believe, time to time, there's something more.

 

[UAgrad93]

I grilled deer burgers, watched several episodes of Band of Brothers and then carried some of those burgers over to my son and daughter-in-law and little granddaughter, before I had to go to work.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I've had the opportunity to encounter people with a pretty good span of influence, but they all fall shy of the personal sacrifice of our veterans.

That being said, one of my favorite experiences involves a bank CEO who retired from a half trillion dollar bank, somewhere in the top six to eight in the nation, depending on how you measure it. I've never met a more authentic leader at that level, just total class. He went with his Sunday School class on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, helping build a pediatric healthcare facility, brick by brick. As they finished their time there, they went into town to an ice cream parlor to celebrate their efforts. They're all enjoying their ice cream and the banker notices there is a lady looking at him, smiling. She gets up and comes over to their table and asks, "are you Kelly King?". He answers yes, and she replies, "some years ago, you gave a speech in New Orleans that was very meaningful to me, and I wanted you to know that." Kelly tells me, "I remember that trip, I'd taken the corporate plane down and the airport was fogged in, no way to land, the pilot went around four times, finally telling me this was our last chance to land. Final approach, the fog cleared, we set down, but I was late to the event, I had no time to interact with the audience, and I had a cold and felt terrible. I soldiered through my speech, and my commitments for later in the day meant I was ushered off the stage with no further interaction, heading right back to the airport. I felt like a failure."

Fast forward, here is a lady in the Dominican Republic telling him what an impact his speech had on her, asking, "why are you here?". Kelly said, "we've just built a children's healthcare facility, but we need some doctors." She smiled and said, "my husband is head of pediatric medicine at our nation's primary hospital, I think we can get you some doctors."

There may be coincidences in our world, but I'd like to believe, time to time, there's something more.

Paul Harvey would have spun a nice web with this one...

 

[TerryP]

Paul Harvey would have spun a nice web with this one...

No shit. Great story.

 

[TerryP]

I've had the opportunity to encounter people with a pretty good span of influence, but they all fall shy of the personal sacrifice of our veterans.

That being said, one of my favorite experiences involves a bank CEO who retired from a half trillion dollar bank, somewhere in the top six to eight in the nation, depending on how you measure it. I've never met a more authentic leader at that level, just total class. He went with his Sunday School class on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, helping build a pediatric healthcare facility, brick by brick. As they finished their time there, they went into town to an ice cream parlor to celebrate their efforts. They're all enjoying their ice cream and the banker notices there is a lady looking at him, smiling. She gets up and comes over to their table and asks, "are you Kelly King?". He answers yes, and she replies, "some years ago, you gave a speech in New Orleans that was very meaningful to me, and I wanted you to know that." Kelly tells me, "I remember that trip, I'd taken the corporate plane down and the airport was fogged in, no way to land, the pilot went around four times, finally telling me this was our last chance to land. Final approach, the fog cleared, we set down, but I was late to the event, I had no time to interact with the audience, and I had a cold and felt terrible. I soldiered through my speech, and my commitments for later in the day meant I was ushered off the stage with no further interaction, heading right back to the airport. I felt like a failure."

Fast forward, here is a lady in the Dominican Republic telling him what an impact his speech had on her, asking, "why are you here?". Kelly said, "we've just built a children's healthcare facility, but we need some doctors." She smiled and said, "my husband is head of pediatric medicine at our nation's primary hospital, I think we can get you some doctors."

There may be coincidences in our world, but I'd like to believe, time to time, there's something more.

this reminds me of the time I met Chris Lake. The emotion she poured out about the desire to be a mother. I'm just "shooting the shit" with a couple and I met at Hyman's she tells some the story about Brandon. (Brandon Lake.)

Running into Adam Calhoun a few months ago was pretty weird (Music Factory, Charlston.)

While we run in different circles it's still a little crazy who we run into in life.

Reminds me of running into Darwin Holt at a bar in Mt Pleasant. I saw his ring. One of those things you see, at a bar, ya know? It's like "hold up." Bama waxed Vandy that day...but we just sat there talking about Coach Bryant. I shake, like a DT for an alcoholic, thinking about that conversation.

 

[cj6891]

My weekend was non-eventful, but relaxing. I agree with this holiday getting a bit lost. I have plenty of people thank me for my service on memorial day. I'm disappointed, but not a dick. I've given up trying to correct people. I usually just do a lot of "me" time for that holiday.

I always remember my uncle, who I never met. He was killed in the Korean war. My dad was just off shore on his ship when it happened. They wouldn't let him go ashore to escort the body back. Things were just different back then.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Fictional, but still one of the most memorable depictions of sacrifice, and the sacrifices ordered to prevent further personal loss.

 

[TerryP]

Fictional, but still one of the most memorable depictions of sacrifice, and the sacrifices ordered to prevent further personal loss.

But it's not...I think I'll watch this again.