Saturday

we met John and Ronda up at the Balfour golf course Saturday morning, just as a good nor'wester started to blow up. It was cool to start,but in a few holes, after numerous whacks at the old ball, we all warmed up! Above,you see John doing a little fishing on the back nine. It wasn't enough that Ronda's ball hit the drink, but then Emil had to give it the old college try and in he went also,and then Ronda drove another right in...too funny. Meanwhile,I avoided the water but went right into the sand bunker..sad, very sad!

Ronda could smack that ball good!

Back at the house we tried out the new "Toss up " game. The Reeses have another name for it...Bolo? I call it Bongo-Pongo! The idea is to toss those two rubber balls that are joined together, and aim for any one of the three bars on the stand..(about 15 or 20 feet away) If the balls wrap around the top rung, you score 3 points, 2 for the middle rung and 1 for the lowest rung. You play in teams of two to 21.

I confess, that we were better than the above pic demontrates! It was a lot of laughs as we tried every which way to fling the balls on a string.
John prefferred to do a powerful overhand throw so that they would bounce off the grass and up onto the rung above. We had to put a stop it before the balls exploded from stress!Lots of laughs. We'll be practicing up for the party. If anyone has any outdoor games they could contribute for the day,bring them along ,as we will have bocce and horseshoes and this new game to get everyone up and moving around!