This is a Blog about golf, mostly, so here's another golf post

More times than I can count, I'll be in the middle of a round of golf when all of a sudden my playing partners realize they're playing with the same type ball.  They find this out when they've hit their shots, and when looking for their ball they both think they've found their ball when they find one ball.  They didn't mark their ball before starting.  A necessity many of my playing partners fail to do.

All golfers should carry a Sharpie in their bag and mark their ball before teeing off.  This will prevent confusion at a later time.  You're ball can be marked any way you like.  Use your favorite color.  Draw a face, use your initials, or just use a dot or two.  This way, you can recognize your ball no matter what type ball your playing partners use.

Big Game Hunting in the Tabler Household

A large fly somehow got into the house and was buzzing around.  It was one of those that when it was flying around, you could hear it.  So, I went and got a rubber band and starting hunting.  Mary Lynn laughed and even posted it on Facebook.  But.......

After a little stalking, and quietly moving into position, I unloaded on the pesky pest.  And........Bob 1, Flies 0.  Here he is on the Kleenex I picked him up with.  I didn't practice shooting rubber bands all through school for nothing.

Annual 4th of July/Birthday Party Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest

I''ll try and show all the entries if I can download them to this blog.  So many nice entries, but only 3 can finish in the money!  The Theme for the contest was "National Monuments".

The winner!  Jillian with her entry of the Statue of Liberty got 20 points!

Erin also depicted the Statue of Liberty and finished tied for 2nd with 16 points.

Also tied for 2nd place with 16 points was Mark Tabler's depiction of the Washington Monument.

 

4th place and Honorable Mention goes to Mark Wagner and his drawing of the Capitol Building.

This was one of the 'also rans'.  Kim Tabler's drawing of Sleeping Bear Dunes.

After looking through the pictures I found I didn't have an individual picture of Brian's drawing, so this is the only showing.  Also, I can't remember what his subject was.  Sorry.

 

Zion National Park By Judy Bowman, another also ran.

Kevin Tabler's "Golden Gate Bridge".

Mary Lynn's entry of Erin, Jill and Andrew's house.

And last but not least, my entry of the "Gateway Arch".  I thought it was a strong contender, but only garnered three 3rd place votes for 3 points.

 

 

 

 

Teaching Class about Animals

As a Louisville Zoo Docent, one of my main jobs is teaching classes.  Sometimes we teach these classes at the Zoo, and other times we take it on the Road.  A couple of weeks ago I had the oppertunity to go to Chance School Summer Under the Trees Summer Camp.  Most of you have seen the pictures, but I thought I'd show a couple.  This class was titled "Experiencing Animals".

This was the first class for the younger kids.  It was a half hour class.  Here we talked about the Orangutans, how they lived in the trees in the Rainforest.  This young lady, along with 2 of her friends, volunteered to try on the Orangutan Coat, showing how long your arms would be if you were an Orangutan! 

This was the 2nd class which was 45 minutes for the older kids.  Here, we talked about snakes and showed the Corn Snake "Dougie", that each one got to touch.

 

On an "Outreach" Class we are allowed to take along 3 animals, plus a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach if we want.  The cockroach doesn't count as one of our animals.  So, we usually take one along because they are so interesting to talk about and let the kids touch.  Other than animals, we also bring along many "Biofacts".  These are things such as an elephant tusk, snake skeleton, piece of giraffe hide, many types of animal pelts, plus many pictures.  We teach classes on many topics, but usually this class is taught to the younger ones. 

As a Docent, Outreaches are one of my favorite things to do.  I also help with School at the Zoo, Set up outside exhibits and talk to people about the animals at that exhibit, and take animals to meet and greet party's or meetings at the Zoo.  Plus a few other duties.