Father's Day.....

 7:06 am - Monday - June 16th - LPG&RVR - 54° F, humidity 24%, wind ZERO mph out of the south by southwest......crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 80° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were riding our Terra Trike tadpole recumbent tricycles along the Fish Lake Bike Path near Spokane, WA.....

.....sometimes I wish we still had them, but it became impractical to carry them with us all over the U.S. as they took up a lot of space.  We were visiting my sister in Spokane at the time, and decided to leave both tricycles with them as we headed east to Campbellsville, KY to work at Amazon for the first time.  When we returned to visit them the next summer we listed them on Craigslist, and sold them pretty quickly.

Sunday was Father's Day, and throughout the day I received calls and text messages from my kids wishing me a good one, and it was.  Father's Day is always the day of the final round of the US Open.  The morning air was chilly, but by 9 am I was outside reclining in my anti gravity chair watching that final round, just as I have done every year.  The round began with just 4 players under part, and when the dust settled at the end of 72 holes there was only one under par; every other player was over par.

To keep the 'lido deck' mosquito free I lit every thing we had to keep them at bay.....

These I call our little smug pots....small tiki lamps burning Citronella oil

A Citronella candle

Citronella coils

....they all worked like a charm, and I remained mosquito bite free all day!

At one point during the afternoon 5 players were tied at 1 over par, and anyone one of them could have been crowned champion, but only one them made key shots when it mattered the most, and that was J.J. Spaun.  He birdied the final two holes to win by two strokes.  His final putt to clinch the win was an improbable 65 foot birdie; the longest putt made by any player over four days at Oakmont Country Club....

JJ Spaun hoisting the Claret Jug

....there was a 90 minute rain delay during the final 18 holes, so the tournament finished just before sunset eastern time....8:30 pm.

Shortly after the finish of the tournament I lit the Sea-B-Que to grill a New York Steak for TLE and I.  It was one of the ones we bought at COSTCO a while back.  COSTCO has the best New York Steaks!  I hope all the fathers out there had as good a Father's Day as I!

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