Who's a Fat Bastard - Nice warm jacket and baggy ass pants!

December 30 2014

Nice warm jacket and baggy ass pants!

      I knew today was going to be a special kind of day. When I got out of bed this morning the Sun was shining brightly. I checked the thermometer on the front desk and it was - 4 degrees. 

Golf weather?

The front deck is south facing and it gets the Sun from first thing in the morning.

Just to see the difference I checked the thermometer on the side deck which faces west and doesn't see the Sun until 3:00 in the afternoon. It was - 11 degrees!

Man up girly boy, the links becon

      As I was writing yesterday's blog the lovely Lisa asked me what I wanted to do today. I said we should go and play golf, the last round of 2014.

     Since it was a special kind of day I had a special kind of breakfast. Prime rib bones and eggs. That's a first for me!

Dem bones

      I posted yesterday's blog about 10:30 and told her I was ready to go. At 12:30 I was still ready to go. At 1:00 we swung by Mama Lee's where they were doing a Catholic Church Service. The lovely Lisa had a quick word with Mama Lee while I waited outside so as not to burst into flames. 

     The drive into Rupert Park was one of those days we have where the air is so clean and fresh the North Shore mountains look like a postcard. 

Mountain majesty from the highway

We were not the only people looking to get in a few holes. There were three groups ahead of us so we started on the ninth hole which was empty. 

      Winter golf on the wet coast can be challenging but it's still golf. Not many places in Canada that you can golf on December 30.

And the gallery goes wild!!

Even less places where you can take your Rat dogs with you. The ground is frozen in a lot of places but no ice or snow on the ground. The lovely Lisa hit first and hit the pin with her tee shot. It ricocheted off the pin and rolled twenty five meters away. I landed my shot fifteen meters short of the green it took a big bounce straight up in the air and rolled to the edge of the green. 

Head down arm straight

I won the first hole. The score went back and forth. We were alone on the back nine. 

Can you see the ball?

Enjoying the warmth of the sun on our faces and trying to keep our fingers warm. The temperature was hovering right around 0 degrees. When we went back to number one there was still a line up so we called it a game after nine holes. I won 6 - 5  on the last hole with a KP and a par. It was after 3:30 when we got home. 

We were meeting friends at the Rivers Reach Pub at 5:00 for dinner.

Our regular group won't be together on New Years for the first time in several years. Annie and Willy are part of the crew that do New Years at the Legion and Gord and Penny organised the party at Dunwood where Gord is the president of the tenants association. We are going to a Jam/Black and White party in New Westminster. So along with Bro Steve, who will be with us on New Years Eve, we got together for dinner. 

       Our waitress took our drink orders and told us her name was Montana, I asked if that was her real name or her stripper name? She said it was her real name. I guess her Mom was a stripper! Place names are popular with strippers, Dakota, Cheyenne and Paris are names I have seen in strip clubs. You know a place name you never hear a stripper use? Idaho!

Bro Steve and Willy

The lovely Lisa

      We once again ordered way to many of the half price appies to share. I ordered lettuce wraps and didn't share. 

Moi, Annie and Gordy

I did share the stuff everyone else ordered. A lot of it was straight carbs and I didn't need them. 

Lettuce wraps

I usually have a beer because I feel guilty about eating the cheap food and not buying a drink but today I just had coffee. We sat and told each other lies for nearly three hours. Willy and Annie work in the morning and Gord is old! Just kidding! But he is old!

      As we drove away from Rivers Reach I noticed we were not taking our usual route home. "I just want to look at something" the lovely Lisa said. She wanted to look at christmas lights. "Can we check out the lights in New Westminster?" she asked, like I had a choice. In a rare gesture of compassion the lovely Lisa let me listen to the Canucks game on the radio while visions of sugar plums danced in her head! 

New Westminster

Coquitlam

      It was half way through the third period when we stopped to see Mama Lee again on our way home. She was sitting in front of the TV watching the Canuck game in her Canucks Logo Santa Hat with a couple of other residents. She has a bee in her bonnet right now about the ticket prices to a Canucks game. She wants the phone number of management so she can phone and tell them their ticket prices are too high. I think I'll give it to her. Maybe she'll call them thirty times a day! Mama Lee has never been to a game. She only started watching sports after her husband Adrian passed away last year. Now it's the Canucks and the Lions. 

      Home to tiny TV town for the last few minutes of the game and the Raptors game that I recorded. I was tossed out of tiny TV town at 10:30 by the lovely Lisa. I never made it to 11:00! I was asleep in the living room when Nutmeg started pawing at me to go out. It was freakin cold. I tossed the Rat dogs on the bed crawled into the lovely Lisa warmed sheets and was asleep instantly.

That's all I've got

Till next time 

Peace out y'all

©2014 Dave Squatch Ward