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Early April 2011, Trails West Golf Course right in the middle of Fort Leavenworth, KS. The PGA Pro put out a MWR notice "Learn To Golf $20" as a 4 lesson offering I couldn't refuse. I had to go around the golf course to get from my quarters to my office building so once I discovered I already knew how to play, just learning etiquette and getting out on the course which made the game mine. My clubs and bag were from the Post Thrift Shop for maybe $20, had a pull cart from "roadside supply" and a few bags of balls from those collected in front of my quarters near the par 4 tee box of hole #3 of Fountain Green GC at Fort Dix, NJ for the preceding 5 years before getting to Ft Leavenworth. My first club was a Pinemeadow Z-ON M1 putter from the Post Exchange at Ft Dix, on clearance sale that had years of practice on a contour trimmed wool rug in the living room of my quarters with a glass on its side as a target. It was the culmination of impressions I still have of being a toddler at my grandfather's home in Stoke-On-Trent UK looking through a gap in his backyard hedgerow at a fairway of Wolstanton Golf Club. Now I golf often when weather permits, it is my obsession as my serenity and peaceful place. Score is a fascination more than mandate and being there is everything, Sharing with friends old and new makes it better and having a good day means enjoying myself regardless of what is happening to those around me, and for everyone I encourage them to have a good day too if it is possible for them. I am a Veteran and I volunteer to help other Veterans live better with golf as a part of their enjoyment of life.

This is a great read and so much like what golf is to me - now I will have to contribute to this string in kind as I am sure wherever a similar post was made is long forgotten to possibly be stumbled upon at a future date. The clincher for me with your story is your signature story (underneath your thread response). My signature is like many who list a litany of Whats In The Bag (WITB) and Forum Testing Reviews completed. I do have one line that leads it with a greatly abbreviated version and sentence fragment of a "story"

Good morning MGSpies from freezing not yet snowy but will be soon starting tomorrow in WNY on this second Friday of 2024 with work computer accessing the network from the basement command post for another zero commute workday awesome community call yesterday was great to see so many friends old and new, and Matt @GolfSpy SAM that's a fun video and thanks for sharing with us, yes she's an influencer like her dad! Great talent all around us and hope golf is a part of your day! 138

Oh Hi there YB! ahem - what I meant was a Yellow Ball is the best for a shot near water, so intelligent they know how to avoid the water, or skip across waves, or find a goose... Hey nice bowtie in the pm photo

Good morning MGSpies from a still not too cold but snow is on its way with Rob @rkj427 catching it first before it gets to this WNY neck of the woods on this Community Call Thursday work computers going online for a basement workday with space heater under the table doing battle with the chill coffee ready to help out that campaign. Hoping the winter weather expected this weekend doesn't upset a really good lineup with a PGA HOPE fundraiser at a high school hockey game being run by the schools involved on Saturday, Sunday Veteran curling as usual and drive to dinner with son in Rochester, and Sim golf on Monday Federal Holiday with our HOPE regulars. Hope golf is a part of your day and see you later online Last and most important, welcome in @Stripe Golf and that is epic making your first Forum post here in The Good Morning Thread! We have a growing number of active members in your Longitude region of our big blue marble. Hope to see many more posts from you 139

Sumatra and Columbian blends especially. Yes so many jokes but as you know, all humor is rooted in fact

Mine was more of a statement of what was being planned for this year. So my approval was more of a "that's nice dear" although no actual words were spoken, there might have been an eye roll or similar but to be sure I said it all twice on two different occasions when she was actually listening. Applying the "I told you so you know about it" principle that applies to me, as I am told so often, I take that as solid backing.

For all of us with a MyGolfSpouse who doesn't share the obsession, it would be awesome to know what tactics were used to secure these approvals from the one who must be okay with it of course it would all be hypothetical because none of the comments would be verifiable or anything that would be used as evidence in a court of law.

You missed the word YELLOW in your comment, yellow balls are the best ones for hitting near water!

Good morning MGSpies from a changing weather from windy not so cold to heavy rain then snow today WNY. The beginning of the story after work yesterday is up the string thataway with this waiting for me when I arrived home. so lines all pulled off and coiled, tarp seams cut to release what was left and everything bagged for eventual disposal, the sailboat is temporarily without it's hat. hope there isn't too much snow load with today's forecast when it gets here, and it will, but it will not shed itself off a peaked tarp this time. Working a zero commute day, will be able to keep an eye on it working from the basement, and see if a heavy 24'x16' tarp can be located. I know some of you have it much worse so sending best thoughts for everyone dealing with weather related and other concerns. Would rather be playing golf, hope golf is a part of your day

Not going to say good morning yet because it's just after 1am so a tale of what's preceded my post in the morning. WNY weather wasn't too bad yesterday with a wintery mix well above freezing and on my drive home from work downtown was mostly rain and windy. Gusting winds had shredded the tarp on the sailboat in my backyard. Spent the remaining daylight hours clearing lines and stripping the useless remains and bagging the refuse that became stuffing to bolster another tarp covering the patio furniture by acting like beanbags underneath to stop it flapping near the corners. Caught a break as the entire tarp removal was between rains that had been continuous all day and resumed just after the power went out at 8:10pm. With dinner ended an hour earlier the best thing I did do was have an early to bed evening. Power restored about an hour ago, more later after another visit with my pillow.

Good morning MGSpies from a dark cold downtown Buffalo parking spot next to the office building with coffee in the mug and Cloudchord's Sleep Walk on Pandora for the calm before the workday and the imminent strong wind with gusts expected in the 50mph range and half inch of rain or more on this Tuesday in WNY. The family rock and roll band knocked it out of the house last night for Open Mic. Hope golf is a part of your day 142

I missed a hole in one by a day or so a couple of summers ago judging from the cup circle my ball was sitting in on a green, my playing partner laughed off as "so close but... " I guess laughter was the best way to finish that one. .

Good morning MGSpies from an almost frozen beginning of the first full work week in WNY with warmer weather forecasted before tomorrow's high wind watch and downward slide into winter if it is predicted well. Working from the no commute subterranean bunker cleverly disguised as my basement with work computer already connected to network - appointment after work then open mic in South Buffalo with the family rock and roll band, last play until April or May when snowbirds again return to the Sunshine State. Hope golf is a part of your day mmmm coffee 143

It was a good day at the Buffalo Curling Club with the VA Western NY Recreational Therapy activity that has been going there now into it's second year. I started with them in October and at first didn't think I would keep going to it - hypersensitivity to sound and muscle cramps in feet, calves, and thighs when I get cold were things I was protecting myself from by not going to it last year. But hearing about it from my Veteran golf friends I decided to play this year. Ballistic ear plugs and compression sleeves on my calves, able to wear insulated Timberland boots and I am already doing quite well.

Good morning MGSpies from snowy frostbite cold WNY on this early Sunday finishing out the end of the first full M-Su week of 2024. Up early to help daughter clear her car off to get to work, love being asked the night before arriving home from dinner in a gentle snowfall Son heading back to his Rochester apartment to get set for his last undergraduate semester next week. Curling at noon with the Veterans Been great having the whole family home knowing life will likely be changing with son graduating to the working world perhaps this summer. Best wishes for everyone's health, healing, and happiness for both people and fur babies. Hope golf is a part of your day

Good morning MGSpies on a frozen Saturday in WNY with a quiet start before the day starts rocking. Or maybe it's starting sooner, no milk in the house so starting with a run to the grocery store, family rock and roll band rehearsal late morning for the open mic on Monday, then a month-late birthday dinner for daughter at Hofbrauhaus downtown. Hope golf is a part of your day 145

I'm looking at my routes and thinking with extra drive time planned in, I might skip the interstates this time and use just highways. It adds time, sure, but it also is a way to see parts of the country I would otherwise not see and being out of the way, traffic is always light and enjoyable in my decades of doing just that. How far is my drive? Rob and just about everyone from the 1st meetup knows. Google shows 550 mi / 9 hours but that includes I-95 and the Washington Beltway ick. My preference is the 500 mi route through Fredericksburg and Winchester that will take some highways through PA and WV I have never seen before! Will also revisit VA highways not seen since parents' travel trailer days to Cape Hatteras at about 11 hours. And no, I don't push traffic, speed or time. Looking forward to the adventure!!! BEEP BEEP

I was so gonna say something about the Lazy River! That kind of pool moves me.

We need to bring lots of yellow balls.

Awesome, been waiting for this announcement since the last day of the Pinehurst meetup in 2023, which was somehow better than the Queenstown Harbor meetup in 2022. Would not miss it looking forward to seeing MGSpy friends already met and those yet to be met!

Good morning MGSpies from frosty 25 degree and not quite cloudy WNY on this first Friday of 2024 with hot coffee ready to go and work computer going onto its network for mission central activity on a zero commute day from the subterranean bunker underneath where I will be enjoying my evening in my comfortable chair Forum on the side keeping tabs on the new excitement of the 2024 meetup in Williamsburg VA with forum friends and busy weekend is almost here, hope golf is a part of your day Happy 12th day

Good morning MGSpies from frosty cold wintery (finally) WNY on this Community Call Thursday and first one of 2024, we've been waiting all year for this!!! computers already connected and heating up the network for work, starting the same here too, coffee is perfect this morning - and now it is time to go scrape MyGolfSpouse's vehicle so she can get to work hope golf is a part of your day

WOOHOO!!!! Put that at the top of the thread!

Good morning MGSpies from a wintery Lake Effect snow falling just here in my narrow neck of the woods in WNY on this first Wednesday of 2024 with happy thoughts of May 30 to June 2nd blowing all the concerns away for whateveritis going on outside hot coffee brewing and computer already searching for the network for a zero commute workday from basement mission central It's Community Call Eve and looking forward to tomorrow's Forum odyssey no matter where it takes us hope the New Year is being good to you already and hope golf is a part of your day