The Good Morning Thread

[Cfhandyman]

A good morning everyone and Happy Sunday to all. A cool but sunny day in the greater Toronto area this morning. Enjoying my coffee working on mastering the art of doing nothing or figuring out what goes on the BBQ this evening. Have a great day. 

[EasyPutter]

Good morning MGSpies from another brilliantly sunny but just above 20F Sunday in WNY after a second good sleeping night  hot tea helping warm the insides after taking care of the baking things from yesterday that needed an overnight (or so) soak. 

Curling at noon with the Veterans which has become a bright spot for the week with the "golf delayed" season in full (swing?) and finding I can curl as good as I golf.  Only laughing in the conversations whilst putting the stones into the house contributing to the team effort.

Last week's action. My opponent's throw. 

Jason @sirchunksalot that looks like a neat piece of equipment and place to keep it!  Your food focus is something I admire as I never had the motivation for much more than taking care of immediate need.

Robert @rkj427 sounds like our weekends are similar in many ways and cars have always been one of my fascinations.

@RockerFCC best thoughts for your grand opening and success - looks like a great facility and hoping to hear you need to borrow that line from Top Gun when the you have to advise someone, "that's a negative Ghost Rider, the circuit is full."

Matt @MattWillGolf can't say enough for the opportunity to be a bigger part of your son's life, as if it was possible, and so it is!

So many others with goings-on filling my mind this morning and too many to mention - best place on the Forum and in life in general is right here in this thread.  Hope golf is a part of your day 

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[Erin B]

Good Sunday funday to you MGS Troops! Windy as hell here in Cheyenne Wyoming. 50mph gusts again. No golf for me today. I’m going to spend some time with the spousal unit and our daughter and her new fiancée! Yep there was a request for our daughter’s hand, a proposal, and an acceptance last night! I found out this had been planned for months. I had a feeling it was!  A dad knows! This is something good after such a sad tragedy for us. Zoey’s fiancée is on the University of Wyoming’s swim team

and three of her teammates were killed in that car crash on Thursday. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/wyoming-swim-team-members-killed-crash-identified-heartsick

Anyway, a fantastic evening last night! And the first night in the last couple of nights I actually slept. Oh, almost forgot!!! Finished my test of the Callaway balls. Check it out!!! 

I hope you enjoy the review and maybe check out Callaway golf balls. These new ones are pretty good. Happy Birdie Hunting!!!

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[Erin B]

13 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

Good morning MGSpies from another brilliantly sunny but just above 20F Sunday in WNY after a second good sleeping night  hot tea helping warm the insides after taking care of the baking things from yesterday that needed an overnight (or so) soak. 

Curling at noon with the Veterans which has become a bright spot for the week with the "golf delayed" season in full (swing?) and finding I can curl as good as I golf.  Only laughing in the conversations whilst putting the stones into the house contributing to the team effort.

Last week's action. My opponent's throw. 

Jason @sirchunksalot that looks like a neat piece of equipment and place to keep it!  Your food focus is something I admire as I never had the motivation for much more than taking care of immediate need.

Robert @rkj427 sounds like our weekends are similar in many ways and cars have always been one of my fascinations.

@RockerFCC best thoughts for your grand opening and success - looks like a great facility and hoping to hear you need to borrow that line from Top Gun when the you have to advise someone, "that's a negative Ghost Rider, the circuit is full."

Matt @MattWillGolf can't say enough for the opportunity to be a bigger part of your son's life, as if it was possible, and so it is!

So many others with goings-on filling my mind this morning and too many to mention - best place on the Forum and in life in general is right here in this thread.  Hope golf is a part of your day 

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I’m fascinated with curling! Awesome pic! Thanks for supporting our brothers and sisters in arms!

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[Jmikecpa]

3 hours ago, Rob Person said:

Hope his trip was everything he expected and more!!!   No Dennys open?  Maybe veer to the main highway and find a truckstop diner?

Unfortunately we don’t have a Denny’s near us nor any truck stops. Ended up getting him some food from Dunkin, it was the best I could do at 4:30 AM. 

[ILMgolfnut]

21 hours ago, RockerFCC said:

A Very Good Morning to you Spies,

Today is the Grand Opening for my new Golf Sim business, Highwood Private Fairway. It's a single bay Trackman oriented towards private membership. If you are anywhere near Highwood Illinois come by and say Hi! Lots of work, as you have seen in my posts, and it's all done (mostly LOL) so looking forward to this. Might even help my golf game  

Cheers, and hit em straight if you can!

 

Looks great! Do we get a Spy discount? 

Top of the Sunday mornin' to you, Spies! One of my new drills from last Monday's lesson was an angle of attack drill: Place a headcover, or a piece of pool noodle, about a grip's length from your tee, try to hit the ball (or clip the tee) without hitting the headcover/noodle. If you're successful, that means you're hitting up on your drives, which I need to be doing,

I was doing that drill in the back yard yesterday (no ball, just a tee stuck in the dirt, trying to clip it). GF came out in the back yard to watch; she's really trying to get interested in golf which I appreciate. But my AoA was a little bit off (OK a lot off) on one swing and the headcover went flying about 10 yards. Scared GF to death. She thought I'd hit a ball in the general direction of our cars. Honey, I'm dumb, but not that dumb; no ball here. And most of the rest of my swings left the headcover undisturbed, so maybe I'm making progress. Followed that by doing some drills I found on a Rypstick video, basically three types of swings right handed and then left-handed.

Not sure how much time there will be for golf, or workouts this week. Schedule is insane: Three appointments on Monday, two cats to the vet on Tuesday, jury duty on Wednesday (and beyond?). But hopefully I can work in some of the AoA drill and some workouts. My "strength for senior golfers" workout, which I finally did in its entirety Friday morning, kicked me in the butt. Literally. Glutes were stiff and sore last night. Although seven hours in the car on Friday didn't help that either.

Oh, an update on my erosion-plagued club in Scotland: The club manager emailed me to say restoration work starts Monday and they're hoping to see a major difference in 2-3 weeks. The GoFundMe page has raised a few thousand pounds, led by a thousand from the Japan Hickory Society (Fortrose and Rosemarkie is hosting a hickory-club tournament this year), but nowhere near the 100,000GBP goal.

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[berkeleybob]

@Erin B What a wonderful moment for your daughter.

@MattWillGolf That’s a special task. Not sure if it’s yesterday or today, but I hope it’s gone well for all.

@sirchunksalot Thanks much! Glad you enjoy them.  

[jbern]

Good morning! We’re going out to a local pizza place for my dad’s birthday today. Should be delicious! Otherwise we’ll just be getting ready for our week ahead! 
Have a good day everyone! 
I did an intro and WITB post. Link below. 

 

[EnderinAZ]

Good morning spies! Well the Spring Training game yesterday was fun, but dull. Cleveland just couldn't get the ball in the air. Both teams changed pitchers every inning so that was interesting. My friend from Ohio and his son were good with the game as both teams were from Ohio. The Reds pitchers were spot on, but the son works for the field where the Cleveland team plays...

They handed out hats yesterday and my wife spotted a maybe 10 year old girl who was clearly going through cancer treatment. She and her family came through the gate after the hats were all gone so my wife offered her ours. The little girl's smile lit up the area as she accepted the hat. Pretty much made my wife's day. We saw her a while later hat securely placed on her nearly hairless pate. That was cool.  

[ParFore74x]

Good morning spies and happy Sunday!! Up late last night to go out with some friends for a dinner and ended up sleeping until 7:45 this morning. Getting up 3 hours later than normal makes me feel like I’m behind on the day already. Time to make some breakfast and get after it.

Have a great Sunday spies!

[Wheelieb]

Morning All,

Ankle is feeling quite a bit better. Looks like all I did was mildly sprained it. Swinging a club is still not in the cards today as I can still feel a little pain while trying to swing a club. So just going to take it easy with that and forgo the range session today. Going to try using some sticky heat pads to help in aiding in healing. We will be doing stuff around the house to prep for spring, like bringing our hot tub out of storage. Hope everyone has a good day. 

[Dead Solid Bogey]

Good Sunday morning, MGS. 
  The elderly will be out in force today. A repeat of yesterday’s 80 degree day with little wind is the forecast. 
   Played well yesterday, best round of the week; closer to 80 than 90. 
   The wife person has been engaging in her usual  finagling around. While not illegal, it is in the same realm as that of a jailhouse lawyer….. As in

Worst part… Somehow this always ends up costing me in at least two of these three; time, toil, and  treasure. 
  May this day be one of joy and happy memories for you and those that you care about.

[EasyPutter]

1 hour ago, Erin B said:

I’m fascinated with curling! Awesome pic! Thanks for supporting our brothers and sisters in arms!

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Thanks my brother Veteran, my efforts began with the PGA HOPE program locally is to grow a Veteran community through activities like golf and now curling to replace the loss we all felt of togetherness when we separated from service.   It is not an all encompassing thing but it is a way to meet and spend time with others "like us" as our experiences do set us apart from the rest of our countrymen knowing things that can only be understood at the core depth.  

Such emotional lows and highs for your daughter and your family with tragedy and real joy of family happiness with promise for everyone's bright future.  Like Matt @MattWillGolf is likely to do, we would love to see photos of these mazing family events if sensibility allows as this is my chosen family as it is for many of our fellow MGSpies 

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[Erin B]

5 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

Thanks my brother Veteran, my efforts begun with the PGA HOPE program locally is to grow a Veteran community locally through activities like golf and now curling to replace the loss we all felt of togetherness when we separated from service.   It is not an all encompassing thing but it is a way to meet and spend time with others "like us" as our experiences do set us apart from the rest of our countrymen knowing things that can only be understood at the core depth.  

Such emotional lows and highs for your daughter and your family with tragedy and real joy of family happiness with promise for everyone's bright future.  Like Matt @MattWillGolf is likely to do, we would love to see photos of these mazing family events if sensibility allows as this is my chosen family as it is for many of our fellow MGSpies 

Love this!!! OnCore is a big supporter of us too. Are you a VGA member? It’s a great program for veterans as well. Maybe someday we can meet up and play a round. I miss wearing the uniform every day. 

my daughter is the hockey player in brown, her fiancé is the swimmer on the left and this is me and the spousal unit during my retirement. My wife is a native NY/NJ. And our exchange student graduated from Sinai Buffalo. So we have ties to the east coast. Maybe, just maybe the stars will align for a round! Happy Birdie Hunting!

[Byrnzee]

Good morning all!

No plans on the agenda today and I couldn't be happier. Looking forward to a relaxing Sunday. Might try to catch some of the golf later on.

Weather supposed to creep into the mid-50s after some cold weather the last couple days. Next weekend looking very promising for warm weather as of now as well.

Hope everyone has a great Sunday!

[ILMgolfnut]

Something I'd forgotten department: Instead of getting my game driver out of my car, I did my drills yesterday with my old Golfsmith titanium driver (Dick's bought Golfsmith in 2016 and this driver was purchased well before that, to tell you how old it is). On a couple of warmup swings, I brushed the grass and sparks went flying. I was a bit confused by that, but then I remembered that sparks were an occasional thing with titanium drivers (principle is the same as striking a match on the sandpaper strip of a matchbook) and there were even reports of such sparks starting fires. A few grains of sand in my backyard took the place of the matchbook cover, and there went the sparks.

[sirchunksalot]

39 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

Jason @sirchunksalot that looks like a neat piece of equipment and place to keep it!  Your food focus is something I admire as I never had the motivation for much more than taking care of immediate need.

Thank you Derek! I wouldn't say I have the greatest amount of motivation either, I've only had the smoker two months and just now got it up and running. I need to organize the carport a little better since it's become a catch all for junk and outdoor equipment. 

I will say, I do love grilling and smoking. I got my first smoker as a five year anniversary gift at work and have loved it ever since. It was just a cheap electric one, but it did a wonderful job infusing meats with that smoky goodness. I am planning on doing my first smoke in a couple of weeks and doing meatloaf. I got the recipe online and it's a Jack Daniels infused one with pepper jack cheese stuffed in the middle. 

https://4sonrus.com/all-jackd-up-stuffed-smoked-meatloaf/

 

[cksurfdude]

Good Morning from a very sunshine-y yet very chilly day!

Good thing the coffee is hot!!

So still have a few pages from the past few days to catch up on here but I'll get through it .. do enjoy reading about the things going on in MGSers lives.

Today's puzzler - my wife had gotten me one of those page-a-day calenders where each day is a clever little "mystery" .. this one I couldn't get (answer below) ...

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Hope everyone has a fulfilling and happy Sunday today!!

 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

36 minutes ago, ILMgolfnut said:

Something I'd forgotten department: Instead of getting my game driver out of my car, I did my drills yesterday with my old Golfsmith titanium driver (Dick's bought Golfsmith in 2016 and this driver was purchased well before that, to tell you how old it is). On a couple of warmup swings, I brushed the grass and sparks went flying. I was a bit confused by that, but then I remembered that sparks were an occasional thing with titanium drivers (principle is the same as striking a match on the sandpaper strip of a matchbook) and there were even reports of such sparks starting fires. A few grains of sand in my backyard took the place of the matchbook cover, and there went the sparks.

Living in the sand hills of NC I see plenty of sparks. Especially this time of year. Tee boxes are dormant and beat up from winter play. The grass has not come in yet so sparks fly. 

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[Tom the Golf Nut]

I’m up dressed and ready to go play some golf. Just waiting until 10:45 when the temps will finally hit 50 degrees.

Crazy weather today a high of 57 but by Wednesday 76. Why can’t it be 76 on the weekend? Soon enough I guess.

Lots of great things happening in the morning thread. Always a pleasure to read.

Have a great day everyone.

[ILMgolfnut]

1 hour ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

Living in the sand belt of NC I see plenty of sparks.

I believe that. My backyard is basically a sandbox with grass on it so it makes perfect sense, once I remembered the thing about titanium. One of our cats has dislodged a paving stone in the backyard, started digging out the sand underneath and brings things to drop in the hole. Fortunately she didn't start using the hole as a litter box.

Seems like I also remember that under certain conditions you could produce sparks without touching the ground, such as just hitting the ball. I vaguely remember noticing some sparks way back when when playing in late afternoon.

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[fixyurdivot]

20 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:

All this talk about cooking and smoking meats finally got me motivated to season my smoker. I'm running an hour long cycle with wood chips and water as recommended in the owners manual. 

I'm also taking the opportunity to get to know how to adjust it to get the temperature just right to make some savory dishes. I can't wait to put it to use. 

I'd like the samplers pack please, pretty sure you still have my address .

[RockerFCC]

53 minutes ago, ILMgolfnut said:

Looks great! Do we get a Spy discount? 

 

Well of course you do  Especially if you are making THAT commute. Seriously, anyone in the area, let me know and I'll set you up. And if you are just visiting the Chicago area and want to come by let me know, we can do a session if scheduling works, love to meet some other spies. Cheers all

Oh, and Good Morning 

[Lee Stanek]

Hey all happy Sunday.   I am so excited for my first 9 holes of the year tomorrow.  I can’t believe it’s in February too in MN.  Going to be a high of 60F and sunny.  Just a few courses open here locally and this one filled up for tomorrow in like 30 min!!! Glad I got a spot and can’t wait to get out!!   I’ll post a recap afterwards!!

[Michael.Sandoval33]

Top of the morning spies!

Another ugly morning outside which plans to clear up nicely. We actually got back into the 70's yesterday and it was nice to not need a sweater all day. Starting the morning with the usual cup of the hot stuff and planning to hit the sim a bit later on today. Precision Golf just upgraded their system Friday and it will be my first time trying the new shiney stuff. I am leaving my putter at home today, it is safe in the bag for another week, two tops, as I really can't go to the course without a putter. So we will enjoy the last few days together before it is time... I just want it to know it will be going to a good home. With that said, already plotting and scheming around school for the week so I can fit in a good amount of course time. Should be very manageable as I have no tutoring sessions booked thus far which is okay with me. 

Have a great Sunday everybody! 

[GolfSpy_KFT]

Good morning all and happy Sunday! 

Had an absolutely fantastic time at the Blake Shelton concert last night. Sang damn near every word and the performance just rocked. Getting ready to make the trek back home and then my dad will be bringing the boys back over later this afternoon. 

[William P]

Good Sunday morning all!

Plenty of goings on yeterday and know all the memories made will be cherished for years to come. 

Beautiful weather is the order of the day, although a bit windy, and nothing on the agenda. Hopefully SWMBO will allow it to stay that way... I know there is more on the list but I do believe the important items have been taken care of.

Hope everyone has a great day!

[Irish-Assassin]

Great Sunday morning here in Dallas. 
Company asked me to come out here for two weeks so one week left.

I had a Homer Simpson moment, Should have bought my clubs, so essentially when I get back to Arizona I would not have hit a golf ball for over two weeks. 
Just so I’m clear, you swing the bat and hit the puck, right? 

[TylorJudd]

Good morning spies! Golfed yesterday with @LBee at the Sim lounge, sore today for some reason. Gym session today, sauna is closed for a swim meet… and then just waiting for the tenants to leave so we can clean up our townhome for showings to sell! Busy busy busy, have a great day everybody!

[Woodrow72]

1 hour ago, sirchunksalot said:

Thank you Derek! I wouldn't say I have the greatest amount of motivation either, I've only had the smoker two months and just now got it up and running. I need to organize the carport a little better since it's become a catch all for junk and outdoor equipment. 

I will say, I do love grilling and smoking. I got my first smoker as a five year anniversary gift at work and have loved it ever since. It was just a cheap electric one, but it did a wonderful job infusing meats with that smoky goodness. I am planning on doing my first smoke in a couple of weeks and doing meatloaf. I got the recipe online and it's a Jack Daniels infused one with pepper jack cheese stuffed in the middle. 

https://4sonrus.com/all-jackd-up-stuffed-smoked-meatloaf/

 

I bought my first Bradley at an auction and have used it a bunch of times for big events , daily stuff , I make smoked pulled pork for friends , family and special events- was a Journeyman Meatcutter before I became a store manager and it’s still in my blood , make my own sausage , ground beef and cut my own steaks , so strong on the smoker it’s great fun !