We lost power for about 44 hours, but I'm Baaack!

Wow! What a storm. Again!  It's starting to get a little annoying losing power and losing all your refrigerated food.  A big wind came through Saturday afternoon and knocked down many trees in the Louisville area and knocked out power for many households all over Louisville.  I took pictures and will add them at the bottom. 
When the storm hit it knocked down a tree behind our neighbors house and it fell into their house crashing through the roof.  Shane and Ollie have 3 girls and they had her brother and his wife visiting along with their 4 kids.  Their's was the van you'll see in the pictures.  A total loss.  They had been out of that van only about 10 minutes when the storm hit.  Had they still been in the van, I'm sure both adults and at least one or two of the children would have been killed.
But, the tree crashed through the roof of their house and they came running out in the storm to the house next door. Mary Lynn and I saw them run out and I started across the street to get them to come to our house.  It was raining and storming so hard they couldn't hear me and headed for the next house after nobody answered at the first house.  Then they saw me and followed me across the street to our house and shelter.  The kids were all screaming and crying, every one soaking wet, and two of the girls were complaining about being hit by the roof as it fell in.
We managed to get the children calmed down, with stuffed animals we have on hand, and checked the two girls and found out they were fine. We got out all the toys we had and let the children play.  They ranged in age from 9 years to 5 weeks.  So, we had sudden house guests for about 3 hours Saturday evening when we also had no electricity.   It was quiet the experience. Luckily, nobody was hurt, just property damage.
But, here are some of the pictures.

The van was a total loss as, I believe, was the little red car. The red car was crushed on the front end and the wheels splayed out.  The black pick-up truck had some dents in the roof and the rear window shattered.  This is the branch that took down all the electric wires.

This was the tree that went through the roof and had the family evacuate.  The little girls were all playing upstairs.  When the tree fell, the girls started screaming and the baby started crying.  The mother, Ollie, said she didn't know which direction to go first, the girls or the baby!

Doesn't Mary Lynn look natural with this little 5 week old storm refugee?

This was a large tree that fell in Tyler Park

This was the large tree that fell across Windsor Avenue at Bardstown Road. There's a car under this tree on the right of the street.

This is the car that was
UNDER that tree on Windsor Avenue.

When we cut the big tree branch that was across the van and stretched across Goddard Avenue, we cut it back to the van.  This was the log left on top the van.  You'll notice the tree told us what time the storm hit.  5:43 p.m.!

Finally, the hero's of my story arrived on the scene. After working about 2 hours power  was restored on our block.

Wow! 7 Years Old Already! What a Pretty Young Lady.

Erin celebrated her 7th Birthday yesterday.  I wasn't going to put this in a post, but I had two of the cutest pictures, so I just had to post them.

Doesn't she looked pleased as we sang Happy Birthday to her?

Then, blowing out the candles.  Jill looks like she'd really like to be helping.









Happy Birthday Rosie Pie!  You are my Sweet Girl!

Amazingly another Sub-80 Round!

If my age keeps going up and my scores keep coming down, pretty soon they're bound to meet!  I shot a 42 - 36 = 78 today at Iroquois GC.  I played very well, but had one bad hole.  I had a triple bogey on hole #6 after hitting my second shot out of bounds. It wasn't that bad a shot, but on a side hill lie, I didn't stay down on it and caught it off the toe of the 3-wood and hit it just barely out of bounds down by the creek. 

Our team today didn't play well.  I was low man with a net 71.  Our team averaged about 75 and it takes around a 70 average to win team bet.  So, I didn't stick around today to see how we did, with the last team having 5 holes to play yet. 

It was a very nice day today and I had planned on walking, but Buddy Brown has his own cart and talked me into riding with him.  It only costs an additional $4 to ride on his cart, so I thought "What the heck".  It does keep you much more refreshed when you ride.

This was round 37 for the year.

Another Up and Down Round

My Tuesday round at Shawnee GC was another Jekyll and Hyde round.  I shot a 38 - 44 = 82.  I walked today for the first time in a couple of weeks.  The weather today was much better than it has been, but it was still very hot.  I'm sure the heat index got up to 100 because they forecast a high of 86 and a heat index of 100. And, the last I saw the temperature was 88. 
I was really tired on the back nine.  I don't know how much that affected my score, but I feel sure it didn't help it.  I'm usually pretty steady keeping my ball in play and out of trouble.  Today I had 3 balls beside trees that I had to take a stance with my back up against a tree.  Two of them I was able to hit something decent, but the other was just a ball that rolled about 6 feet.  That was the last one and I think maybe being tired I tried to get too much out of it. That was a triple bogey on hole #16.  I finished par, bogey, so I feel like I finished pretty strong after the triple.  My handicap is now down to an 11 on Tuesday's at Shawnee GC and a 7 on Thursdays at Iroquois GC.  I would think my 82 today wouldn't change a thing on an 11 handicap.
This was round 36 for the year.

Stinking up the Place!

I played two Scrambles this weekend. We really stunk up the place in both of the tournaments.  Saturday I drove to Georgetown, Ky to play in a small 6 team Scramble with all the people who I worked with in the Plastics Department at Toyota.  We finished 6 under, but bogeyed two holes!  Two teams tied for the win at 9 under.   Today I played at Cherokee GC in a Sramble for St. Martin Brotherhood.  Cherokee is an easy course.  But, we finished 1 under.  We birdied 2 holes and bogeyed 1.  This is a course that it should be easy to be 7-8 under.  It's a 9 hole course and all 4 par 4's are short.  A decent drive gets you inside 100 yards.  With 80 to 100 yard shots to the green you should be able to have a lot of very makeable birdie putts.  Not us!  We had 2 short putts all day and made both of them for our birdies. We never made any putt longer than about 4 feet.  I'm playing in a Scramble on August 20th with Brian.  I hope my game is better for that one.

Most of you were unaware that this is "Kentucky Art Car Weekend"!

Mary Lynn and I went down on Main Street to the Ky Art Car Weekend at the Museum of Arts and Crafts.

These are just a few of the nice cars we saw.

A nice Stretch Limo decorated with glass beads.

This one I thought was a "Cookie Monster" look alike. I guess that's what he was shooting for.

I bet this mirror car would be tough on the eyes of other drives when the sun is shining nice and bright!

I like this car.  Looks like a lot of work went into this one.  A lot of action figures and plastic bottle caps.  I like the thermometer on the bottom rear and the action figure above it.






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Same car, different angle.  Even those Ohio people like decorating cars.

They weren't all big cars.  I'm not sure if these were powered or not.  A couple of them looked battery powered, but this one, I don't know.

Then, what a thrill!  We got to see "Miss Art Car Kentucky"!  I got her autograph!

I thought this car was really sharp!

It was fun walking around looking at the cars and wondering what would prompt a person to decorate cars this way. It would be kinda tough driving one of these around without drawing attention to yourself. And what would be the reason they'd start decorating a car.  You can tell there was a lot of time and effort put into these cars.

Round 35 for the Year a Jekyll and Hyde

Well, thank you so much for the compliment. Yes, I was proud of  my accomplishment. The first nine I ever played in even par.  But, as with my normal golf, a really good nine has to accompany a not so good nine.  Today at Iroquois GC I shot a 42 - 35 = 77.  A very good score, but the 35 was even par for the back nine.  And, a lipped out a putt on 17 and a birdie putt left 3 inches short on 18, either one of those falls and I shoot under par!  The only really bad hole I had in the round was #8, where I took a triple bogey.  After hitting it in the trees, chipping out and laying up around the corner, I hit a fat shot that left be about 60 yards short of the green in 4.  Standing over my ball, lying 4, 60 yards from the green, my playing partners wanted to know if I was gonna lay up again.
My handicap is now 7 on Thursdays.  And, with this 77, it may be lower next week.  I can't win low man with a handicap that low.  This 77 is about as good as I can play, and that only netted me down to a 70.  It usually takes 68 or better to win low man.  J. R. won low man today with a 65. 
I'm playing two scrambles this weekend.  One Saturday morning and one Sunday morning.  Saturday I'm playing up in Georgetown with a lot of my old Toyota fellow Plastics employees.  We'll have about 5 teams.  It'll be nice to see them again.
Sunday I'm playing at Cherokee GC.  I have no idea who this is for.  I play 2 or 3 scrambles at Cherokee a year with the same guys and we never play well.  It's an easy course that we should be 8 - 10 under easy, and we're usually about 3 under.  Maybe this Sunday our luck will change.