Golf: Putting with Wind

Did you know that IF your ball moves after you have grounded your putter behind it on a green that it counts as a stroke?!?  This year’s British Open is being played in howling winds and the players are all very concerned about this exact thing happening to them.  Interestingly enough, many are backing away from their putts BUT … if they don’t mark their balls when they back away, then they are considered to have already addressed the ball and will be penalized a stroke if their ball moves even if they aren’t standing over it!  Moral of the story:  when playing in wind, don’t ground your putter until you are ready to stroke the ball.  And if you back away, mark the ball immediately!!!

Grey’s Season Premier Sept 25th!

Mark your calendars for the 2 hour season premier of Grey’s Anatomy on September 25th!  Not yet certain if it is 7 or 8pm but will update this post when I figure it out!!!

Courtesy of this Grey’s Anatomy Insider Blog post.

Gardening … Dividing Hostas

May have to split my hostas in 2009!  Following are 2 instructional videos explaining the process …

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CyberNetNews … Graphisme et utilitaires

Graphisme et utilitaires … free photo editing software … spotted on my new fave tech/web blog CyberNetNews.com.  Did I forget to mention that it appears to be in French!?!  Those years of French may actually come in handy after all.

Which reminds me … did I ever mention that I passed out of my college foreign language requirement based on my knowledge of the … FRENCH language!  Yes … though born in a Spanish-speaking country, it was my studies of the French language from elementary school through high school which earned me my exemption.

Scrapbooking vs Photobooks

Amusing YouTube video finds a gentlemen giving a tour of the “Scrapbooking Habitat.” Found this video on several blogs I read.

But alas … I have discovered the penultimate photobook site at www.blurb.com.  The one book I have created to date (our recent landcruise tour of Alaska) was indeed absolutely beautiful.  The quality of their books is the best I have seen to date.  I have read reviews to that effect as well so I would highly recommend the site to anyone who would like to consider creating a photobook as opposed to scrapbooking life’s journey!

7 Summer Side Dish Makeovers

7 Summer Side Dish Makeovers - Beauty Eats on Yahoo! Food … German potato salad!  Angel Food cake!!  Fruit!!!

Everywhere I Go I See You

OK … my fave song these days is “I See You” by Michael W Smith from his album Worship Again …

Lord, You’re leading me
With a cloud by day
And then in the night
The glow of a burning flame

Chorus
And everywhere I go I see You
Everywhere I go I see You

And You take my hand
And You wash it clean
I know the promised land
Is light years ahead of me

(Repeat Chorus)

And the eagle flies
And the rivers run
I look through the night
I can see the risin’ sun

(Repeat Chorus)

Well, the grass will die
And the flowers fall
But Your Word’s alive
Will be after all

(Repeat Chorus)

Lyrics courtesy of Christian Lyrics website.

I could dance all day long to this song.  It just makes me SO happy!  Love the chorus.  It kind of loses its power in the written word …

Elton John’s Friends

My fave song in college was an infrequently played song by Elton John called Friends.  My parents had given me a stereo system for my 21st birthday and I played this one song over and over again.  That meant I literally had to lift the player arm and put it back at the beginning of the track over and over again!  Not quite like an MP3 player!!!  I recently found it in iTunes and these are the lyrics … 

I hope the day will be a lighter highway
For friends are found on every road
Can you ever think of any better way
For the lost and weary travellers to go

Making friends for the world to see
Let the people know you got what you need
With a friend at hand you will see the light
If your friends are there then everything’s all right

It seems to me a crime that we should age
These fragile times should never slip us by
A time you never can or shall erase
As friends together watch their childhood fly.

Courtesy of the eltonography.com website.

Golf Practice

Following suggestion for practicing golf for one hour …

One thing that would improve your game is better practice habits; Hogan, Tiger, Singh all loved to practice. Here’s what a one-hour session should consist of: 15 minutes of putting, 10 minutes of chipping, 10 minutes of pitching, five minutes of bunker play, for a total of 40 minutes. The remaining 20 minutes should consist of driving — divide your balls into fifths and hit your sand wedge, 8-iron, 5-iron, woods and driver.

Yes … this would definitely improve my game!

Baby Moose!

No Crossing, originally uploaded by Doug Lloyd.