At 04:10 PM 7/1/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>> Oh, so you don't play golf, you play flog!  
>
>oooh, I'll have to remember that one....

One of Elizabeth's co-workers at the Bank of America played golf.  Well,
some days she did and some days she didn't.  If she came in with a smile,
she'd had a good day on the links.  If a scowl, she hadn't done well.
Elizabeth made the mistake of asking her, on a scowly Monday, "Did you play
golf this weekend?"  "NO!" the woman answered.  "I
played FLOG!"  

>Well, look at it this way -- we were out on a LOVELY pair of days, on a
>kicker of a course, with people we enjoy (who don't play THAT much better
>than we do). And a couple hits actually looked like we'd hefted clubs

Aha!  I don't know that I could ever achieve that look, but the walk would
be nice.

>before. [That's the thing of golf, right when you're ready to take the
>cart off the cliff, you hit a proper stroke. And Reid had some QUALITY
>time with his Uncle Ken playing a few holes, too...]

That's always good.

>Not only that, saw the most GORGEOUS little gopher snake -- buff with
>black, black markings, AND a "racer" (long brown-grey snake) who was
>actually eating a mouse. And could that fellow -- about a meter long --
>MOVE, even with his mouth full of rodent..... And rabbits, and wild
>flowers (whose names I mostly even know these days) and.... 

Lovely!  We see interesting creatures right in our back yard.  Black racers
-- one came onto the patio looking for the frog that hid in the flowerpots.
 Snake looked at the setup and had this look on its face that seemed to
say, "That's too much like work," and went looking for easier prey.  We've
seen possums, raccoons, foxes, and of course the damned deer.    And
pygmy rattlesnakes.  Keys and I found one by a corner of the house the day
after the pest control company had applied Termidor.  The snake had crossed
the barrier and was lying there looking none to spry.  Not even the
gumption to take a menacing posture when Keys stepped near it.  We
dispatched the poor thing, because it was probably terminally poisoned.

Seen bobcat tracks, too, but never the bobcat.

>Sure beats sitting in traffic, my oh so wise cousins & brother remarked
>(more than once).

That it does!

Veloci--neither golf nor flog--raptor


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