The interlude.....

 8:10 am - Tuesday - June 21st - Cedarville, CA - 52° F, 30% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the northeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 83° F.  Our view this morning......↴ 

Our check in time Monday at Surprise Valley Hot Springs was 4 pm so we had a lot of time Monday before our departure time of 2 pm.  It's only 49 miles to the hot springs, and takes about 57 minutes, but we needed to do some small shopping in Alturas, plus order a takeout pizza from Antonio's Cuccina for an eary dinner.  We figured by the time we did all of that it would be after 3 pm, and time to head over the Warner Mountains to Cedarville for our two day interlude of self indulgent hot tub soaking, and just generally doing NOTHING but read, nap, and engage in funny, and somewhat humiliating putting contests.  More on the putting contests later.

I've been wanting to get a 'wedge' style putter for a while, and found one on eBay that fit my eye for $22.  It appeared to be like new condition, so I pulled the trigger and bought it.  Well, it arrived at the Clubhouse via UPS Monday morning, so I drove over around 9:30 am to retrieve it, and putt a little with it on the putting green.....

....yup, she is a beaut, and I love the length of the shaft, the weight, and feel.  Within minutes I was putting balls to within a couple of feet of the holes.  Satisfied with my purchase I headed back home to show it to TLE, at which time we decided to head back to the Clubhouse to have a late breakfast/early lunch.....something we have not done since January 31st when we began our intermittent fasting....Kathy's (Cafe Kathy) breakfast special of the day was biscuits and gravy with link sausages....OMG was it ever good!

After breakfast TLE and I headed out to the putting green to putt.....for the record TLE hasn't held a putter in her hands for 14 years, and I had low expectations. Now that I had received my new putter I had three others for her to try.  I thought she would like my Bullseye Acushnet blade style putter, and after trying all three she, indeed, settled on the Bullseye.....

....this was the style putter I used for years back in my 20's and 30's.  I acquired this one at the South Lake Tahoe Flea Market back in 2016.  At any rate, we began putting, and she immediately displayed an uncanny hand/eye co-ordination sinking her first putt from 20 feet...wait, what?  To be fair,  TLE was quite the athlete in her youth.  She excelled at track and field sports like the long jump, high jump, and middle distance races. In her entire college career she only lost one race.

After putting for about 30 minutes we headed back home to begin our  preparations for our two day interlude.  We were in the car a little after 2 pm heading into Alturas.  Our first stop was the aforementioned Antonio's to place our pizza order, then on to Holiday Market to do our small shopping while the pizza was being prepared. We were back at Antonio's by 3 pm, and on the road a few minutes later, arriving at Surprie Valley Hot Springs around 3:40 pm. We quickly retrieved our room key for lucky room #13, and entered......

....within minutes we were soaking in our own private, hot spring fed hot tub.  We are able to adjust the water temperature by opening, or closing the hot and cold water valves.  After a suitable soaking time we headed back inside to have a little putting contest....

That's a coffee cup we're using for the 'hole'

.....over the course of an hour TLE smoked me sinking 10 putts to my pathetic 4.

We spent the rest of the afternoon reading outside, and enjoying the larger than life views out the back of our patio....

.....there were some adult beverages, at least one cigar, and a beautiful sunset....

....thanks for stopping by!