Wednesday, December 31, 2014

New Years Eve

Happy New Years to everyone! We have the pleasure of having Chuck, Kim and Emily join us here over the holiday. They arrived yesterday after their trip to San Diego in their motor home. Unfortunately the weather is terrible except for the beautiful view of the snow covered mountains. We enjoyed a birthday dinner last night for Chuck,then today we watched the UA Fiesta Bowl game on the big screen in the motor home because it was too cold outside.


Emily, Kim and I watched movies along with the game.

Then we headed up to the restaurant for New Years Eve dinner.


Great meal, great to have Chuck, Kim and Emily with us, but ate too much. We did the early seating so am heading to bed about 8pm, that's how much we party. But it's midnight somewhere!

Hopefully it will warm up a little tomorrow so we can enjoy golf, boat ride and a little outdoor action.

Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful New Years.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Bragging Rights #2

Yea, I did it again - A Hole In One, this time on hole #9. But I didn't get to see it pop into the hole. I lost the ball in flight after I hit it, but I heard it hit something and thought it must have been the tree behind the hole (even though I thought - wow did I hit it that far?). So when I got up to the green and looked around for my ball, it was no where to be seen, so I thought it went into the water after hitting the tree. Then Jim went to pick up his ball that he just put into the cup, and said, "there's a ball in this cup", and lo and behold - there was my dirty Titleist 1 ball. What a shock, I would not have thought that was what happened to my shot.
 As you can see by the following picture of Jim in jeans and bundled in a coat, that the weather has cooled down from its 70+ degrees to the low 60s, but the problem is the cold wind, it cuts right through a person. The wind has been over 20mph and the overnight lows are getting into the low 40s. I know for family and friends back in WI, that is probably warm to you, but to us, this is "cold".
Our Christmas was quiet but pleasant except for the cooler weather that turned cold on Christmas day. We pretty much stayed close to the warm motorhome watching basketball and only ventured out when needed. Yesterday, the wind subsided a bit, so did make it out for a round of golf. Hopefully today will be just the same. Right now (at 7:30am) it is 44 degrees and no wind and bright sunshine with a promise of 64 degrees by this afternoon.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Solstice Sunset

 Yes, we're back in Indio for the holidays. Arrived Sat. afternoon after an uneventful (the kind we like) trip from Tucson.

Before we left Tucson on Friday evening we had the family Christmas dinner at our house. It was a great time with plenty of food, great desserts, but the highlight was watching Emily & Semira helping Grandpa and Linda open presents.

Now we are enjoying the fine weather (predicted to be a high of 82 today), daily golf, overindulging on fine meals at the restaurant and beautiful sunsets.