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!!!

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.

Last Monday, we had interesting visitors!  The doorbell rang and there stood a couple who seemed friendly enough.  Thankfully they immediately introduced themselves as our neighbors.  They own the 2 empty lots next to us and plan to build in 2 to 3 years.  They had been in town visiting family for the July 4th holiday.  They finally had a chance to get away as they were headed back to Tulsa to fly home to Sacramento, CA.

I invited them in since it was a little warm outside.  Originally they were sold their lot under the pretense that it was our lot!  Talk about disappointed!!!  You see their lot is the last one with lake access thus requiring dredging and much work to maintain.  Our lake access isn’t much better since we are the 2nd lot to the end.  Every little inch helps though!

We sat and had a wonderful visit.  At some point, the conversation allowed me to explain our predicament with regard to retaining our Texas residency.  The bottom line there is that in a couple of years or so we will be putting this home on the market in order to purchase a bigger home in Texas.  Then we would probably just rent during our summers in Bella Vista.  We do love it here especially since the summer weather is so much cooler than it is in Texas!  Don’t miss that summer heat one bit!!! 

Our new neighbor immediately hands me his business card and asks that we contact them before selling our home!  He says “he doesn’t see any need to build a home when this one is already built!”  That’s right … they might be interested in buying our home in about the same timeframe that we might be interested in selling it!?!  Lord only knows if it will ever come to pass but I proceeded to show them around the house and they loved it … even the smallish galley kitchen!  Just too good to be true!?!  And maybe for them as well!!!

I imagine they will be stopping by regularly on future visits.  I certainly extended the invitation!  If nothing else, it is certain that they will be great neighbors to whomever is occupying this dream home of ours in the future … since it probably won’t be Jake and I!!!

Playing piano , originally uploaded by missynwatts.

Our little piano man! Dad looks like he doesn’t have his glasses on!!!

TOO funny!

KEWL but somewhat overwhelming …

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

or …

DSC_1941, originally uploaded by Stephen & Mary Ruth’s Album.

Aaron is taken by a friend’s birthday gift. Nice shot courtesy of friend’s uncle!

Vinegar to the rescue again!

Pierce in his “going home” outfit, originally uploaded by billykaren519.

Note how upset Pierce is in this photo! Apparently, he is like his Daddy and likes to be bundled up in lots of warm blankets!!!