Sherpat

Hey hey. I'm up 94 from you, just north of Vernon. Started my career behind your house in Newton while living in Wantage. After work I could practically walk over to Rolling Greens for a quick round. They were open ALL YEAR LONG SNOW OR NO. Crazy. Narrow course too, if I recall, but a lot of fun when I was just learning the game :)

Hello from Sussex County :-D

MO or KS side? Whatever. Send me some BBQ!!

Lol. Maybe they will. (I was just having some fun. Hope you don't think I was busting your chops :-D )

That's pretty amazing paint if it can disguise a long putter! ;-)

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet . Always had a soft spot for British thumpers. One of the first bikes I remember was my dad's Norton Atlas, then the follow-up Commando. Sorry you can't ride anymore, but what great memories....

She sounds as good as she looks, too:

I'm a full-time morning drive radio DJ in Market #1. Welcome! Watch yer levels, kid. ;-)

Good call on the PEI origin, but these are from Washington state. I've purchased them before and have no complaints. I love 'em all! Lol. You're obviously a man of discerning taste and pleasures....at least when the wife's gone! Good for you man, that sounds like Guy Heaven :beer:

Got a big seafood sale going on this weekend at the local grocery. I'm gonna pick up a 2 pound bag of fresh mussels (4 bucks, score!) and turn it into one of my all time favorite dishes of any genre: billi bi soup. But I'll reserve half the meat for a mixed seafood paella on the side. And for the main Memorial Day chowdown: lobster rolls! (Live lobster: $3.99/lb. Score X2!) I'll put 'em on hotdog rolls so they look appropriate for the holiday :-D I'll probably make up either potato or pasta salad too, Oh, I made a big batch of rice pudding in my rice maker yesterday. That, under a blob of whipped cream, should end the festivities if we have room left. Whenever seafood is the focus, it's hard to go wrong with a nicely chilled Sancerre. And since I'm here, check this: Mint grows like kudzu around my house. Seriously, anybody needs a few cubic yards of the stuff I'll send a truck out. I'm always making things out of it, not so much because I like it that much, but because if I don't I won't be able to see out my window. On the second floor. Here's what I make a lot of in the summer. Mint julep: 1. Yank a half an acre or so of mint from your yard and bring it inside and rinse well. Take 5 or 10 stalks, strip the leaves off, and bruise those leaves up with the back of a knife or cleaver. Put them in a small saucepan along with a third of a cup of water and a third of a cup of sugar. Turn the heat on and bring it to a simmer. Let it simmer for 10 - 20 minutes, adding more mint leaves out of spite every now and then if you feel like it. Now pour it through a fine strainer, pressing down on the leaves to get everything, into a ramekin or small bowl and let it sit and cool down. You've just made mint flavored simple syrup! 2. Get a bottle of bourbon, the quality depending on 1. your ability to afford it, and 2. your willingness to adulturate it. I'm a Maker's Mark man myself, but there's a lot of great bourbon out there from other distillers. The better the bourbon, the better the julep. But even harsher stuff covered in mint tastes good (well, better) this way. 3. Get a decanter, hopefully one with a good stopper. 4. Bruise up some of the remaining stalks of mint you have left. Ram them TOP SIDE FIRST down into the decanter. (You'll thank me later when you're trying to pull them back out after all the julep is all gone...which, knowing most of you, will be in about 3 hours.) Pour in the syrup you just made, then the bottle of bourbon. Shake it around real good ( er, [U]with[/U] the stopper on. Dummy .) 5. This is the hardest step: let the sucker sit on a shelf somewhere for at least 3 days to meld all the goodness. I know, I know. What can I say? I don't make the rules. Just do it. 6. Serve it over ice (shaved, in a metal beaker, is traditional, but...uh, yeah) and jam a couple more sprigs of mint on top as a garnish. The idea is, when you stick your face in the glass to take a swig, your nose should be buried in the leaves to get an extra blast of sensory overload mintiness via the olfactory. Works for me! (Just don't sneeze in your drink immediately afterwards. It makes it chewy. Don't ask.) Man, after writing all that you know what? I may skip the crummy seafood and go straight for the after dinner drink! Happy cooking, all!

Seems like a good golf goal:

I'm take a guess and say that you're now hitting them fat. For some reason you've begun leaning a bit back on your downswing while grooving that Orange Whip, and that means the bottom of your arc is now behind where it used to be. So you're hitting the ground before the ball. When that happens, it doesn't matter what the loft of your club is, since it's the clod of dirt that's hitting the ball, not an angled piece of steel. They'll all go the same distance: short. When hitting driver, with the ball tee'd up farther forward in your stance, it may actually help you if the bottom of your arc is back a little. You're catching the ball on the upswing, adding a bit of loft. Why don't you see if you can vid yourself from the front to see where your irons are bottoming out? I may be way off base, not being a teacher or anything. But that was my first thought.

Go ahead, guess: . Ok, stop guessing. It's Martha Stewart. She was a fashion model before becoming a media mogul and perjury buff.

My good Irish wife got herself hooked on Korean dramas a few years for some reason...and here's the reason I watch them with her:

I'm guessing "a one stroke penalty" is not the joke to tell at the moment, huh? Gotta say, having a real stroke must be unbelievably scary. As Woody Allen's character said in Sleeper , "My brain? That's my second favorite organ!" I hope the prognosis is for a full recovery. Best of luck. When I was laid low by a shoulder impingement a while back I kept the Stir Crazies at bay by dragging my Playstation-2 out of retirement and becoming a whiz (again) at "Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08". No gross physical movements required, like a Kinect, et al. It ain't golf, but if your movements are limited (and you ingest enough alcohol) you can almost fool yourself into believing you're at least simulating it. Hang in there. Focus on your recovery and the time will pass. And if you can pick up real clubs in 3 months, that still leaves 5 months give or take to play this season. Not bad, considering!

Dobie Gillis loved her. So do I: She was Claudia Schiffer before Claudia Schiffer was Claudia Schiffer. Not that there was (is) anything wrong with Claudia Schiffer:

Here's my Kawi. Old school thrills, yo!

Good job on deciding to take the MSF course. Learning the basics from the get-go will stand you in good stead the rest of your riding days. It's like learning the proper grip and set-up in golf. You can do an awful lot more with the game once you get those fundamentals down. I've been riding all my life. My dad had a factory ride from the Spanish company "Bultaco" back in the day, and got me riding by 4 and racing not long after. Mostly I've been involved in "trials" (a type of dirt competition), but over the years I've road raced for a privateer team and MX'd. My wife is a serious racer also. We met in a trials chat room. She's a twice previous New England women's champ, and has 3 competition bikes: a 1974 Honda TL125 for vintage racing, a GasGas JTR260, and a GasGas Pro200. I've got a Beta Rev3 260 which she gave me as a wedding present on the morning of our wedding, pimped out with a top hat on the handlebars...she draped her JTR260 with a veil and jammed the bouquet in her number plate...we had the ceremony in the woods and raced to the alter from either side around all the ("startled" I think is the word) guests. I also have an '85 Yamaha TY350 for competing in vintage events. And a cherry restored and tricked out '77 Kawasaki KZ1000 for the street. To my chagrin, my father - now 77 - can still dust me and any ten of my friends on his hyper modified Suzuki Bandit. But someday... someday .... Have fun! :-D