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[tolmij]

2 hours ago, billh17 said:

beautiful sunsets, and wild animals , up here our wild ones are  limited to fox,deer

and the rare hawk and owl. Most of the rattlers and copperheads are really deep in the woods.

Got a nice 9 holes in today. 62 and sunny made for a nice day out there. The high school teams

are done with their games for the year so the course has quieted down a lot. Got a lot of  practice

in. hit more good ones then others and only 2 that were really awful. Hope all of you guys are enjoying 

the mild fall temps !

 

62 for 9 holes 😳 thats about my average at present😜. New driving range opened up close to home so will be trying that before I go back to the course.👍

[Hankshank]

Have had a bit of a golf draught here. Had a foot injury that spoiled the summer, a lot of work when Finally my foot got better, and my kids starting univeristys, moving and stuff, missus dragging me to hiking and well, the lockdown (which still is mild here) has made me lazy. Ok, I exercise, strength and cardio, but working from home, having food and stuff brought home has made me a kind of eremite, like. Missus has a medical condition that could be bad with the virus. Anyhow, no golf rounds played since July. 
 

still havent lost my appetite, i do swing a lot in my back yard in a nook where no neighbors see with those plastic balls. Hope to get at least a round or two together before it gets too dark.

 

seeing golf on TV is great though, one has adapted to no spectators and those interviews with a long pole.  
Been a strange golf year.

Edited October 6, 2020 by Hankshank

[miamistomp]

This guy wasnt happy I hooked ball near his tree !

[scotee]

Sharing the roses with the neighbors

[tolmij]

Expensive year this one, the pandemic has caused our grocery bills to almost double until recently, recently fitted solar panels $8000, fridge went belly up $3200, now the air conditioner has decided to join the fray, another $5000. It us a large unit that covers the whole house through a ducted system, hopefully some of it can be incorporated into the new unit.

 

Christmas has been cancelled.😢

[tolmij]

7 hours ago, scotee said:

Sharing the roses with the neighbors

Unlike our vsitors these will not try to eat  you 😬

Edited October 7, 2020 by tolmij

[Hankshank]

8 hours ago, scotee said:

Sharing the roses with the neighbors

Yeah, those buggers are like rats nowadays here. The ones that comes to our garden are smaller, Bambi like. When I grew up they were considered rare and shy. When my father drived us through the countryside, “look, there’s a rådjur”, and one only saw a white tail when they disappeared. Now, when you try to shoo them away from the tulips or whatever, they take two,  three steps away and looks at you. You almost have to kick their butt to make them disappear. Pretty cute though one has to admit. The daughter used to be mad at me seeing them off when she was tiny.  Have some photos somewhere when a calf(or whatever they are called in english) feeds from her mother just meters from the kitchen window.

Edited October 7, 2020 by Hankshank

[tolmij]

1 hour ago, Hankshank said:

Yeah, those buggers are like rats nowadays here. The ones that comes to our garden are smaller, Bambi like. When I grew up they were considered rare and shy. When my father drived us through the countryside, “look, there’s a rådjur”, and one only saw a white tail when they disappeared. Now, when you try to shoo them away from the tulips or whatever, they take two,  three steps away and looks at you. You almost have to kick their butt to make them disappear. Pretty cute though one has to admit. The daughter used to be mad at me seeing them off when she was tiny.  Have some photos somewhere when a calf(or whatever they are called in english) feeds from her mother just meters from the kitchen window.

We are where we are because of the wildlife, Goannas, Snakes, Kangaroos, dozens of bird species, some quiet some noisy and aggressive. Love being at one with nature.

 

I know what you mean with them not being frightened anymore, our neighbour has a large male Kangaroo that lies down outside his front door and is not impressed when he is moved. 7ft tall and capable of ripping your stomach out. We have several smaller ones that graze our front lawn, very close to the house

Edited October 7, 2020 by tolmij

[Hankshank]

1 hour ago, tolmij said:

We are where we are because of the wildlife, Goannas, Snakes, Kangaroos, dozens of bird species, some quiet some noisy and aggressive. Love being at one with nature.

 

I know what you mean with them not being frightened anymore, our neighbour has a large male Kangaroo that lies down outside his front door and is not impressed when he is moved. 7ft tall and capable of ripping your stomach out. We have several smaller ones that graze our front lawn, very close to the house

Have kind of mixed emotions there.  Scandinavia is sparsely populated and there is countryside everywhere. Even in the suburbs of Stockholm where I grew up there are pretty decent areas of wood, lakes and so. Now, my summers as a kid I spent, my father born as working class, at where my grandfather spent his summers. The workers in the Baltic sea harbor town rented little cottages that the fishermen built to get some extra income. Very primitive, no running water old style toilet and all that. Anyways, we spent my childhood summers at a fishermans place. The fishermen of old lived very hard lives, and for them every wild animal was a threat to their profession. That wasnt really so any longer in the 60-70's but it lived on in that community. If they saw a bird of prey they said lets get the gun. 
 

I kind of have a little of that in me. Animals that threat what I plant in my garden are garden enemies... but at the same time, my brother is a birding fanatic and that have kind of spilled over a little on me. During the winters we feed birds outside the kitchen window and a multitude of species comes there, to our joy. And its nice when hedgehogs, squirrels and the like come to the garden. 

Not at all many dangerous animals here. The adder is probably the only poisonous animal, and the adders here are quite unaggressive. There are some wolfs, they will kill a few dogs but they never attack people. Some bigger animals that might be dangerous, like mooses, bears and wild boars but its extremely rare that people get injured. The only animal that is dangerous if you go into the woods is h*** Sapiens. 

Edited October 7, 2020 by Hankshank

[tolmij]

35 minutes ago, Hankshank said:

Have kind of mixed emotions there.  Scandinavia is sparsely populated and there is countryside everywhere. Even in the suburbs of Stockholm where I grew up there are pretty decent areas of wood, lakes and so. Now, my summers as a kid I spent, my father born as working class, at where my grandfather spent his summers. The workers in the Baltic sea harbor town rented little cottages that the fishermen built to get some extra income. Very primitive, no running water old style toilet and all that. Anyways, we spent my childhood summers at a fishermans place. The fishermen of old lived very hard lives, and for them every wild animal was a threat to their profession. That wasnt really so any longer in the 60-70's but it lived on in that community. If they saw a bird of prey they said lets get the gun. 
 

I kind of have a little of that in me. Animals that threat what I plant in my garden are garden enemies... but at the same time, my brother is a birding fanatic and that have kind of spilled over a little on me. During the winters we feed birds outside the kitchen window and a multitude of species comes there, to our joy. And its nice when hedgehogs, squirrels and the like come to the garden. 

Not at all many dangerous animals here. The adder is probably the only poisonous animal, and the adders here are quite unaggressive. There are some wolfs, they will kill a few dogs but they never attack people. Some bigger animals that might be dangerous, like mooses, bears and wild boars but its extremely rare that people get injured. The only animal that is dangerous if you go into the woods is h*** Sapiens. 

Same here, they are the biggest pest and most dangerous.😳

[scomac2002]

The biggest pest we have around here are squirrels.  They dig holes everywhere and it seems like there are hundreds of them!

 

I top seeded my lawn last week to try and fill in the bare spots.  I have to go out every afternoon with a rake and smooth over all the mounds that the squirrels have created before I water the new seeding.

 

Back at the farm we used to get a lot of coyotes visiting.  I can remember chasing one out of the field in broad daylight when I caught it trying to pull the placenta out of a cow that had just calved!  My neighbour, who raised sheep, kept a couple of donkeys to guard her flock.  She told me that the donkey would stomp a coyote to death if it caught one in the paddock!

[scomac2002]

I have a gripe today.  Many of you are probably active on Facebook.  Those that are will understand about what I'm about to speak of.

 

It's a pet peeve really of mine.  It's the situation where one of your FB friends posts a well meaning diatribe on the sufferings of those with a chronic/terminal illness.  It could be cancer.  It could be mental health.  It could be anything described with an acronym.  I have three particular FB friends who are guilty of this.  They're all wonderfully compassionate, affectionate and family oriented women.

 

The post will go something like this describing a heart melting story about someone's plight and how you need to be supportive of them by cutting and pasting the message onto your wall and then replying done on the original posters entry. Sharing will not do.  It then goes on to say that out of all the hundreds of friends they have only a handful will do this and they can guess who you are.

 

I ignore these sorts of posts due to their condescending tone and the implication that most of their friends aren't worthy of being friends with.  I think that it's incredibly ignorant no matter how genuine the intent to support of good cause.  If this type of posting continues I promptly go for the unfriend button.  Maybe they'll get the message?

 

You know what the irony in all this is?  Those three women all sent me the friend request in the first place.  One of them even went so far as to friend me a second time after I sent her packing the first time!  This particular woman has a side gig that she promotes through FB and that is really what's behind her collecting friends.  It's a means of marketing.  Someone should tell her that the first rule of marketing is to NOT insult your customer if you want them to buy.  🙄

[tolmij]

55 minutes ago, scomac2002 said:

The biggest pest we have around here are squirrels.  They dig holes everywhere and it seems like there are hundreds of them!

 

I top seeded my lawn last week to try and fill in the bare spots.  I have to go out every afternoon with a rake and smooth over all the mounds that the squirrels have created before I water the new seeding.

 

Back at the farm we used to get a lot of coyotes visiting.  I can remember chasing one out of the field in broad daylight when I caught it trying to pull the placenta out of a cow that had just calved!  My neighbour, who raised sheep, kept a couple of donkeys to guard her flock.  She told me that the donkey would stomp a coyote to death if it caught one in the paddock!

love donkeys, had them for many years always had to be careful with our dogs as they would stamp them very quickly. Apart from that they are a very friendly loving animal, they love lots of cuddles and strokes. The other thing with a donkey is they drop their manure in a neat pile so it is easy to clean up..

[tolmij]

38 minutes ago, scomac2002 said:

I have a gripe today.  Many of you are probably active on Facebook.  Those that are will understand about what I'm about to speak of.

 

It's a pet peeve really of mine.  It's the situation where one of your FB friends posts a well meaning diatribe on the sufferings of those with a chronic/terminal illness.  It could be cancer.  It could be mental health.  It could be anything described with an acronym.  I have three particular FB friends who are guilty of this.  They're all wonderfully compassionate, affectionate and family oriented women.

 

The post will go something like this describing a heart melting story about someone's plight and how you need to be supportive of them by cutting and pasting the message onto your wall and then replying done on the original posters entry. Sharing will not do.  It then goes on to say that out of all the hundreds of friends they have only a handful will do this and they can guess who you are.

 

I ignore these sorts of posts due to their condescending tone and the implication that most of their friends aren't worthy of being friends with.  I think that it's incredibly ignorant no matter how genuine the intent to support of good cause.  If this type of posting continues I promptly go for the unfriend button.  Maybe they'll get the message?

 

You know what the irony in all this is?  Those three women all sent me the friend request in the first place.  One of them even went so far as to friend me a second time after I sent her packing the first time!  This particular woman has a side gig that she promotes through FB and that is really what's behind her collecting friends.  It's a means of marketing.  Someone should tell her that the first rule of marketing is to NOT insult your customer if you want them to buy.  🙄

never been on or read facebook or twitter, no one in our family uses them. The thing that annoys me most is when a prospective employer demands your password to check your attitude and activity, son had a heated discussion at one interview when they did not believe he was not on it.

[scotee]

17 hours ago, scomac2002 said:

The biggest pest we have around here are squirrels.  They dig holes everywhere and it seems like there are hundreds of them!

 

I top seeded my lawn last week to try and fill in the bare spots.  I have to go out every afternoon with a rake and smooth over all the mounds that the squirrels have created before I water the new seeding.

 

Back at the farm we used to get a lot of coyotes visiting.  I can remember chasing one out of the field in broad daylight when I caught it trying to pull the placenta out of a cow that had just calved!  My neighbour, who raised sheep, kept a couple of donkeys to guard her flock.  She told me that the donkey would stomp a coyote to death if it caught one in the paddock!

I had two donkeys as a child. My dad would not get me a horse because he thought they ate too much, were expensive and not as smart. He had a donkey as a boy and thought I needed one too. We got one that was pregnant and I got to watch her give birth to a cute calico jack.  We rode them out in hills behind our house in Southern California. They were fun pets.

[Sean2]

On 10/5/2020 at 9:39 PM, scomac2002 said:

It's really quite beautiful here in the northeast this time of year.  The skies are clear and the temperatures are crisp.  The leaves are at about 50% colour at this point and the course is soft from recent rains.

 

It can be tough getting loose when you start your round with temperatures barely above 50°F, but if you're out of the wind and in a sunny spot it is really quite pleasant.  You can get warm pretty quick with a base layer, a polar fleece and a wind jacket!  That still doesn't do a whole lot for carry distances as I'm finding out.  It's really quite humbling choosing a 9 iron from 95, a 7 iron from 119 and an 8 iron from maybe 105 and having exactly the right club.  I hit the best 3W off the deck I've hit all year from about 175 and still ended up 20+ yards short!  I just can't generate any swing speed.  Now you know why I'm playing 2000 yards for 9 rather than 3000+.

 

The greens were vertidrained last Thursday and they are still unputtable IMO.  Perhaps it's got something to do with the ridiculous pin positions.  I wonder what the greenskeeper was thinking?  You would think he would put the pins in a collection area with tough putting conditions.  Apparently he's a sadist!  I felt really bad for one of my playing companions who greened his tee shot on 9 from 200 yards only to 4 putt for a double bogie.  The last 3 putts were all 3 feet or less!

 

I know that this sounds like another gripefest, but I'm not sore.  I hit several really good shots, just couldn't make up for the poor ones.  It was a pretty good day all things considered and I knew that scoring was going to be a challenge based on the practice green so the score wasn't unanticipated.

I don't hit the ball that far either, but then again we are seniors, lol. If I play the appropriate tees then lack of distance isn't an issue. 

[Sean2]

How about sunrise? I took this a few years ago when I got to the course around dawn. 

 

[Sean2]

22 hours ago, scomac2002 said:

I have a gripe today.  Many of you are probably active on Facebook.  Those that are will understand about what I'm about to speak of.

 

It's a pet peeve really of mine.  It's the situation where one of your FB friends posts a well meaning diatribe on the sufferings of those with a chronic/terminal illness.  It could be cancer.  It could be mental health.  It could be anything described with an acronym.  I have three particular FB friends who are guilty of this.  They're all wonderfully compassionate, affectionate and family oriented women.

 

The post will go something like this describing a heart melting story about someone's plight and how you need to be supportive of them by cutting and pasting the message onto your wall and then replying done on the original posters entry. Sharing will not do.  It then goes on to say that out of all the hundreds of friends they have only a handful will do this and they can guess who you are.

 

I ignore these sorts of posts due to their condescending tone and the implication that most of their friends aren't worthy of being friends with.  I think that it's incredibly ignorant no matter how genuine the intent to support of good cause.  If this type of posting continues I promptly go for the unfriend button.  Maybe they'll get the message?

 

You know what the irony in all this is?  Those three women all sent me the friend request in the first place.  One of them even went so far as to friend me a second time after I sent her packing the first time!  This particular woman has a side gig that she promotes through FB and that is really what's behind her collecting friends.  It's a means of marketing.  Someone should tell her that the first rule of marketing is to NOT insult your customer if you want them to buy.  🙄

 

I quit my FB account a few years ago...and don't miss it at all, lol. 

[tolmij]

Update on Air con, ducting is over 13 years old and the way the air is diverted is out of date. No matter which room you switch on the main lounge is always active, apparently that is how it used to be. The new system will see all rooms totally isolated, with the ability to have different temps in each room, all controlled by WIFI.

 

Slight increase in price, new system will cost $11300.🤯

[Sean2]

1 minute ago, tolmij said:

Update on Air con, ducting is over 13 years old and the way the air is diverted is out of date. No matter which room you switch on the main lounge is always active, apparently that is how it used to be. The new system will see all rooms totally isolated, with the ability to have different temps in each room, all controlled by WIFI.

 

Slight increase in price, new system will cost $11300.🤯

Yikes! 😱

[bscinstnct]

6 hours ago, Sean2 said:

How about sunrise? I took this a few years ago when I got to the course around dawn. 

 

Thats spectacular! You really should mount and frame it ; )

[Sean2]

35 minutes ago, bscinstnct said:

Thats spectacular! You really should mount and frame it ; )

Thank you! I have done what you suggested. 🙂

[tolmij]

8 hours ago, bscinstnct said:

Thats spectacular! You really should mount and frame it ; )

Welcome back, been away too long.

[tolmij]

8 hours ago, Sean2 said:

Thank you! I have done what you suggested. 🙂

Excellent picture, with your permission I will paint that as my next work.

[scomac2002]

On 10/8/2020 at 6:58 AM, Sean2 said:

How about sunrise? I took this a few years ago when I got to the course around dawn. 

 

 

Reminiscent of the 6th hole at my course.  

 

 

Also from a few years ago.

[Sean2]

9 hours ago, tolmij said:

Excellent picture, with your permission I will paint that as my next work.

Please feel free...I would be honored. 🙂

[Sean2]

Frost delay this morning. Way to early for that kind of thing, lol. 

[tolmij]

25 minutes ago, Sean2 said:

Please feel free...I would be honored. 🙂

Thank you, I will try to do it justice. Going to be a difficult one with the sun but I love a challenge.

[Sean2]

Just now, tolmij said:

Thank you, I will try to do it justice. Going to be a difficult one with the sun but I love a challenge.

I am impressed with your artistic ability.👍 In the winter I do some coloring of mandalas and other things, and am happy to keep within the lines, lol. 

[scomac2002]

6 minutes ago, Sean2 said:

Frost delay this morning. Way to early for that kind of thing, lol. 

 

We've been having frost delay for 3 weeks now!  Yesterday it was only 20 minutes, but we seem to have some sort of delay about 3 times a week.

 

I would agree that it's early for this sort of thing from my golf experience perspective, but not so much from my life perspective.  I can remember frost in the end of August more than once, the first rather vividly as a teenager heading out to bring the cows in at 5:30 in the morning and I was wearing shorts and a tee shirt.  I darn near froze!

 

Routinely in my youth we would get our first hard frost about 20 September.  In more recent times it was often mid October.  At our new location down here in wine country down by the lake we won't get a hard frost until November, but the golf course is a good three quarter hour northwest of me, up on the escarpment 650 ft. higher in elevation which brings with it about a 6°C temperature differential (11°F)!

 

I attended the University of Guelph for undergrad studies a long time ago and it was about a half hour north of the course.  It was also another 300' further up the hill, so-to-speak.  There's a major highway (401) that separates the two in about the middle.  That's also the snowline that demarks the snowbelt and you will frequently find rain on the south side of the highway and snow on the north side during a typical winter storm coming from the NW.

 

It's the sort of climate variation that you get in the mountains.  No one thinks of mountains when you mention Ontario and it sure doesn't look like it to the naked eye when you drive around, but it is essentially a dome surrounded by water.  A glacial dump of deposits as the glaciers retreated back across the Canadian Shield, hence we can get some pretty interesting weather variation from region to region.