Putt, putt.....

 8:03 am - Sunday - June 5th - Likely, CA - 54° F, humidity 73%, wind 7 mph out of the south.....very cloudy today with a forecast high of 68° F, but no rain. On this date in 2019 TLE and I were in Ramona, CA at Rubio's Coastal Grill for Taco Tuesday.....we love their fish tacos.....↴

Saturday began cold and blustery, and ended that way, but in between we got a little sun.  We finally slept in until after 7 am....always our goal on our days off work, and lazed around until around 11 am when we took one of our 'loop' walks around the park, but extended our walk all the way out to the end of Likely Place Road, before turning around.  In all we covered 1.75 miles on our walk....

Another cold, and blustery Likely day....when will summer arrive?

......after our walk I used our electric Toro hand blower to clear 5 days of wind blown detritus off the 'lido deck', and moved the 1UPAmerica bike rack outside the trailer interior to sit upon the tool box mounted on the trailer tongue, as it was taking up too much room inside the trailer.  I did, however, use a Kryptonite cable, and lock to secure it, even though I'm not really concerned about anything being stolen here at LPG&RVR.  Often we leave the Newell unlocked when we take our walks, and even the trailer on occasion, but when you have grown up in a large metropolitan area (SoCal) the urge to lock everything up all the time dies hard.  There is something to be said about being consistent when locking things up as you travel around the country....in the 10 years of our nomadic wanderings we have not had one single thing stolen.  Others we know have had bicycles stolen on a regular basis, and other valuable items, so we know it happens.  Our advantage in this area is we have a large enclosed trailer in which to secure things, and I believe that is why we have never had anything stolen.

Of course, Saturday is 'Putting Contest' day, and I entered once again.  I have never gotten past the first round, but I was determined to get to at least the 2nd round this time, so I headed over to the putting green around 12 pm to spend some serious time working on my putting stroke, and distance control.  I putted each of the 5 holes from several different angles, and was determined to keep it up until I could putt two consecutive balls to the same spot on each hole.  By the time I left at just before 2 pm I was putting the best I have putted since arriving here at LPG&RVR.  In spite of that I still had a lot of self doubt.

Well, fast forward to 4 pm.....as I approached my first putt I felt pretty calm, and relaxed, and just tried to emulate that putting stroke upon which I had worked for two hours, and what do you know?  I put the ball within 2 feet on every single one of the 5 holes, and won my first round.  I managed to win my second round handily by doing the same thing, and in my third round I sank two consecutive 25-30' putts to pull into a dead heat with my opponent as we began putting on the 5th hole.  My putt was about 3 feet wide of the hole, and I missed my second putt, whereas my opponent did not.  So, I played three rounds this time, and the guy I lost to ultimately won the whole thing, so I don't feel too bad about losing to him.  I was one hole away from beating the ultimate winner, and moving on to the 4th round.....yay for me!  By the way, we had over 40 contestants at the putting contest, and an even larger crowd of spectators, which made for a very festive time.

We didn't get home until almost 5:30 pm, and as I noted earlier, the cold, blustery conditions continued into the evening, and all night long. It was never very windy, but you could hear our windchimes rattling all night long, which, by the way, I  love.

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