On that Friday a few hours ago, MFO was successfully deposited at BWI and eventually made it to Onalaska, WI, where she currently remains visiting her mother (MFOM?) and sister (MFOS?). Back here in my bachelordom, the weekend was, well, the weekend. Rain, clouds and lack of enthusiasm resulted in the Feeder not attending the County Fair. It was what the locals call “fair weather”. And really, this will be about the third (?) in a row that I/we have not visited. Are we getting to be “locals”?
So, the feeder took advantage of our location to watch the practices and actual races of the Solomons Off Shore Grand Prix races. Big loud, really fast things are always fascinating and these are no exception. Geico is apparently very big in this arena as there were several entries in different classes. The actual races are kind of hard to watch because several classes are racing at once and it’s hard to know who’s racing who..
The other thing that occupied my time was watching various golf events on TV (oh no, here he goes again!) This weekend had both the Solheim Cup (kind of the women’s Ryder cup) and the men playing for that elusive and stupid FedEx cup.. okay, one last
Rant
The USA women were playing the European women in Ireland. I found out that the Euros have not won since 2003, and were not favored to win again this year. In the end, they did win the cup, and I was kind of happy for them. Probably good for the game. And for stodgy, between the lines old me, I really didn’t care much for our team. It seemed to me they thought they were entitled to win, showed up for each match dressed in some sort of gaudy costume that was a variation on the flag. And besides that, they had little flags painted on their faces. On every hole the loyal American fans chanted U-S-A!, U-S-A!, U-S-A!, after every shot, good or bad. On the final day, it was obvious that it was a lot closer than the Americans had figured, and it got down to the final singles matches. One of them was a high profile match between Michelle Wie and Suzann Pettersen. Now, alert readers will remember that Michelle was dubbed by that famous media to be the female Tiger Woods when she came on the scene at age 16 or whatever, and I have criticized her in the past for trying to qualify for men’s events (failing miserably). Well, on the final holes she sunk a rather long putt, and danced across the green, arms flailing, fist pumping, quite the antics. Well, Suzann calmly watched and proceeded to birdie the final three holes to take the match, and ultimately win the cup. I just don’t like heroics and showing off regardless of the sport. Those little decals looked pretty good when they were winning, not so much at the end..
And then I moved to the FedEx cup coverage of the final round of the Tour Championship. In the end, it was exciting, but the stupid media (those guys again) spent untold minutes trying to figure out who would win the cup with that stupid point system. It changed with almost every shot. If Haas makes this putt, he’ll go to first unless Baddeley holes out from the rough, or Mahan falls into the hazard. Just awful. With a hundred different scenarios as play progressed, it would have been possible for the winner of the tournament to NOT also get the FedEx cup. Mercifully it worked out that Bill Haas and Hunter Mahan went into a playoff for the whole enchilada. Both were nice guys, but Bill Haas won, including a wonderful shot from the water hazard. It’s nice to see nice guys. Phil of course was all over the course spraying tee shots and the long putter was erratic. Anyway, thank God that’s over for another year..
Lastly, our “new” McDonalds is open. Yippee. People still continue to drive into the old one..
And who cares if they are
DFD
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