On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:52:40 -0400 Karen Rhodes
 writes:
> 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!"  
> 

exactly
you figure you've got a handle on the damn thing and then the wheels come
off the cart again....
pfft
wicked, wicked game

> >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.

(joy riding up hill and down in the cart's pretty cool)

> >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.

yup, yup

> >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.
 

good thing for the frog!

> 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.

Termidor being for Termites?

> Seen bobcat tracks, too, but never the bobcat.

There's a pair living in the "housing" area Mom & Dad winter.

> >Sure beats sitting in traffic, my oh so wise cousins & brother 
> remarked
> >(more than once).
> 
> That it does!
> 
> Veloci--neither golf nor flog--raptor

I'm sure you have your own Snitches to Seek after, tygress

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