I'm getting there......

 2:50 pm - Wednesday - August 17th - Likely, CA - 91° F, 16% humidity, wind 4 mph out of the north by northwest......mostly cloudy today with a forecast high of 91° F.  On this date in 2014 I was riding the 'Off The Top' trail at Mammoth Mountain Bike Park, which begins at 11,000' elevation......↴

Monday was a busy off day for me.....I hit a couple buckets of balls, then played 9 holes.  I bogeyed the first hole, parred the 2nd hole....just missed a birdie, parred the 3rd hole with a longish one putt, kind of blew up on the 4th hole, but got a double bogey anyway.  I bogeyed the par three 5th hole, and bogeyed the 6th hole.  At that point we had caught up with the foursome in front of us, so we jumped up to the elevated tee at the 16th (par 3) where I bogeyed, then bogeyed the par five 17th, and then bogeyed the 18th.  Probably my best 9 holes in 40 years!  I am, slowly but surely, getting there.

TLE and I bought a Backgammon board a while back with the intent of getting back into this fun board game after 40 years.  We played a lot while on vacations back in the 70's, then raising 5 kids kind of got in the way, and it fell by the wayside.  I think we sold it in a yard sale back in the 80's sometime.  I found a preowned one just like the one we had back in the 70' on eBay for about $28......

.....we finally sat down Monday to play for the first time in decades.  Relearning the rules was like trying to learn Chinese....at first.  Gradually our memories returned, and we began to have fun.  We must have played a dozen games Monday afternoon with TLE winning initially, but gradually I became more competitive, then finished off the afternoon winning a couple of times.  I had forgotten what a fun, strategic game Backgammon is.....sure, there is the element of luck involved with the toss of the dice, but there is a lot of strategy.

Around 7 pm, this time, we headed up to the high point at LPG&RVR to watch another sunset, and we stayed until almost 8:30 pm.....

Likely Mountain with TV antennas, etc.

.....we were treated to a cloudless sunset, but it was beautiful, nonetheless!  Thank you for stopping by!