8:26 am - Monday - June 22nd - LPG&RVR - 68° F, humidity 20%, cloud cover 7%, wind 9 mph out of the northwest....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies this morning with a forecast high of 90° F. On this date in 2014 TLE was making breakfast on the 'lido deck' in Tahoe Valley Campground.....
....while we watched the FIFA World Cup on TV in South Lake Tahoe, CA, and today in LPG&RVR we'll be watching FIFA World Cup soccer on our 'lido deck' TV....same stuff, just 12 years later.
Sunday was Fathers Day. I always look forward to hearing from my kids on Fathers Day, and wishing my two sons, and two sons-in-law happy Father's Day. This will be my 55th Father's Day in that capacity. TLE and I had 5 children together....2 boys and 3 girls. There has never been a day since our first child, Chris, was born that I have regretted having children. Having children has a deeply positive effect on one's life. When a man gets married, and has children he is no loner making decisions for himself, and every decision he makes affects 3 or more people depending on how many children you have. In my case every decision I made affected 7 people. That is a lot of responsibility. You no longer live solely for yourself, but for something bigger than yourself. As I look back over the 55 years of family life I am sobered by how well our children are doing raising families of their own, being apart of a community, working good jobs, etc. I see the values we instilled in each child being manifested daily. We now have 10 grandchildren, and a very, very soon to be 3rd great grandchild. While we are at the end of adding grandchildren, the number of great grandchildren will continue to grow as our grandchildren mature, find mates, and raise families. In a couple of weeks TLE and I will fly south to SOCAL to visit our kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. The obligatory pictures will taken of our large extended family, and we will look at those pictures and think "except for TLE and I finding each other no one in those pictures would exist in that family context"....that is very sobering. Intact families with a mother and a father, and several children are the bedrock of our civilization. Please do not interpret this as a political, or religious statement....it is not. It is simply a strong opinion forged over 5+ decades of living life as a father who is still married to the the mother of his children. While my opinion may be considered anecdotal I believe it is representative of the hundreds of thousands of families just like ours which are also thriving, and building the next generation.
The day began slowly, but by the end we had rented 25 golf carts. Other than taking care of staging golf carts, and then washing/stowing them I spent time moving sprinklers down at the 'Night Office', and the large grass area in the middle of the parking lot by the Clubhouse. The grass by the Clubhouse does have automatic sprinklers, but there are spots that get too dry, and need an extra dose of water during the week. This is due, primarily, to the several juniper trees in middle of the grass area. Juniper trees require an inordinate amount of water to live, and tend to deprive every other green thing around them of the necessary water to sustain life. The 'Night Office' grass is a different story....there are NO automatic sprinklers down there, so all watering is done manually, but there are no juniper trees competing for the water.
On the US Open front only three players finished under par....all the rest were even, or over par. Wyndham Clark began the day at 7 under par, 6 strokes ahead of the nearest competitor, but as the day progressed the lead narrowed to just one as he finished 3 over par for the final round, however, he hung on to win with a four under par final score. Sam Burns finished second at 3 under par. Scottie Scheffler finished in fourth place at even par.
I was off work by 3:30 pm, and thus began our next four day 'weekend'. I returned to the Clubhouse at 5 pm to give TLE a ride home. As is almost always the case the four work days passed by quickly, and we begin the work of making the next four days pass as slowly as is humanly possible....lol.
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