METAL DETECTING AGAIN!!!!!

I metal detected today for the first time in over 3 weeks! My back is still bothering me, so I thought I'd try it today and see how it went. Well, no problem with the back and sitting here now my back feels better than it has for 2 weeks. I'll see how it feels later tonight when it has a chance to stiffen up. I should've know it would feel better, I called and got a Doctor's appointment for Monday afternoon.
I didn't find anything great, but I did find a 1939 penny. It's next to the key on the bottom. I found 13 pennies and 10 of them were pre-1982, which I call good pennies because they're made of copper. I metal detected in a little grass area next to St. Elizabeth on Burnett Street. I saw that little area the other day and thought it looked like a place I'd like to check out. When I went by there today, a man was cutting the grass and almost finished. Perfect timing. I had someone to ask permission from, and the grass was short.

A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away.....

Now, these pictures go back a long, long way. These are pictures of me and my brother Joe,, sister Jean, and cousins and double cousins. The picture on the left was taken on the cellar entrance to the store we lived next door to on Cedar Gove Court in Portland. The picture on the right was probably in my grandparents back yard in Portland. Alice and Judy were my cousins, children of my mothers brother, Jimmy Bibb. The others, Robert W., Sue, Thomas, and Melanie are my double cousins. Double Cousins? My Dad was their mothers brother, My Mother was their Dad's sister. Double Cousins.

In case you can't find me, the picture upper left I'm the one with a big circle on my shirt. The photo bottom right, I'm bottom left with the cool suspenders on.

Wide Body Trap? Or, just a trap.

For several years now, every so often, when walking down our hallway my pants have cought on the knobs on the front of this cabinet. I would complain that the cabinet is a trap and catches on my pants all the time and Mary Lynn would declare that "I don't know how in the world you do that, I never do." For a long time, I thought it was just me. Then, a while back, maybe Christmas, Mark Wagner was walking down the hallway and it caught him the same way. Boy, was I glad! It wasn't just me! Then, yesterday, Jit was walking down the hallway, and it caught him! It IS a trap! But just for men. Now why?

First of all, how does it happen? Well, as you can see by the picture, the steps stick out just a bit. When walking down the hallway, arms at your side, you tend to move away from the steps to keep from hitting your arms on them, etc., which automatically moves you towards the cabinet. Now, usually, the hallway is a little shadowy, and the dark knobs do not stand out visually. So, you brush against the cabinet. Presto! The knobs grab the back of the pants pocket and you're caught! Why just men? No, not because they're wider. Men normally wear looser clothes around the hips than women. Women's pockets, if they have them in their clothes, are made differently, cut at a more parallel line to the floor, and, women are usually shorter, so that the pocket falls below the cabinet knobs.

Now, this has been a very scientific study. Don't think I just made it up.

So now, all of you loyal blog readers, know why men snag their pants on the cabinet knobs in our hallway.

Gosh Bob, How did you win all that?

With all these nice prizes, you might think I won the tournament. Well, I don't need to win when I can get this many prizes for finishing 21st. We finished 1 over par, beating only 3 other teams. Mark, Kevin, Brian and David finished 6 under, about 10th place. It was a cold, windy day, and the holes played extra long for our team of short knockers. I thought we played very good to finish just 1 over par.

I won the bean bag game door prize at left. Bobby Flood won the bird feeder and bag of bird feed, but didn't have any use for it and gave it to me. Mary Lynn won a dozen golf balls, and Brian won a dozen balls and gave them to me. So, that's where all the prizes came from.

It was a fun tournament. Our team didn't have a long hitter, which really hurt us on a lot of those long par 4's into the wind. There was a lot of par 4's we couldn't reach in two shots. So, I was proud of our score, even though it doesn't sound like we played well. We did pretty good.

Bad Bob knows all, sees all

I've gazed into my crystal ball and checked out how Saturday's golf tournament will come out. I see the Hedges/Tabler team finishing -3. Yes, I know we get one throw each, and I see us birdie-ing those 4 plus one more. However, I see 2 bogies on the horizon. I see the Tabler/Garvey Team finishing 8 under, in 5th place. Don't get mad people, this is not my wish....just what the crystal ball says.

Now, having said that, the prediction does not take in to account what other weird twists J. R. decides to put in the tournament that I don't know about. I don't think he had the toilet seat last year, or the hockey sticks, or the one club hole. So, any of those, or new twists he puts in this year will void my prediction.

Odds double as news of Hedges/Tabler golf team trouble hits the network news

We've got Trouble my friends, Trouble I say. Right here in River City. Trouble with a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'P' and that stands for 'Pain'. Bad Bob has a backache and will be unable to practice this week. I'm taking the week off to try to get my back ready for the weekend tournament. I'm sure I'll be able to play, it's just that I don't want to push my luck by playing this week.
And, Mary Lynn refuses to go to the driving range! She says she's ready. Hasn't hit a ball in 6 years, but feels ready to play. Looks like the Hedges from the north are going to have a lot to carry on their shoulders this weekend. I'm letting this out so that some unknown soul won't take any bets without knowing the whole story!

What Derby is all about......

Derby is my favorite day of the year. Everyone know that. You can have your Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Etc., just give me my Derby Day. It's said that the Derby is the most exciting two minutes in sports. In my opinion, it's the most exciting two minutes in anything! We had a fun time at the Tabler house this Derby Day. A lot of people. No, a lot of FAMILY. It was great. It rained, so everyone had to stay inside. No corn hole, sitting on the deck, or sitting in the back yard. The rain made it crowded, but made it a much cozier. I looked around every so often, and I could always hear at least 8 people talking at the same time. I think everyone had a good time, even if they did lose a little money. Thanks for taking everybody's money, Uncle Mark! I think he won 7 jackpots! Jill heard ice cream mentioned early in the day, and it was around 5 o'clock when she finally asked Mimi, "When are we going to eat ice cream?". Well, she got some pretty quick.
And, at Derby time, as the gate for the Kentucky Derby opened, I had my two granddaughters sitting on my lap, watching the Run for the Roses. Life doesn't get any better than that.