{"id":1783,"date":"2012-01-19T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:08","slug":"now-this-is-more-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/now-this-is-more-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Now This Is More Like It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My crippled crumpled back is finally feeling better which leaves me with a couple options: continue to rest until the healing process is complete..or man up and get out there on the golf course and play through the pain. I have chosen the latter and much to my surprise it went fine. In fact, the only pain I felt was the realization and confirmation that my game still sucks. I\u2019m like every other golfer who believes he has never played up to his potential and that one day all the stars will be in proper alignment and struck balls will fly straighter and putts will run truer than ever before confirming that the skills were there all the time.<\/p>\n

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My playing partners yesterday (in the Fountain Hills American Legion League) included two guys from Minnesota who\u2019ve been coming out here for years. Bill, it turned out was from actually from Valley Springs, South Dakota and recognized me right away from TV. It turned out to be a lovely day with wonderful weather and great camaraderie; almost enough to make up for rather lousy scores. I\u2019m trying it again today at a place called Gold Canyon with some of my pals who play regularly in our Brandon group and spend time out here in the winter. I\u2019ve already started slamming back the Advil to discourage any pangs of back discomfort from creeping in to spoil the day.<\/p>\n

Linda doesn\u2019t drive out here so she\u2019s stuck at home during those hours when I\u2019m off gallivanting around the links but insists she welcomes the opportunity to do nothing other than read any of the books she has downloaded onto her NOOK (There\u2019s a sentence that wouldn\u2019t have made any sense five years ago.) or do her nails or just sit outside on the patio soaking in the sunshine. She doesn\u2019t say it, but I\u2019m pretty sure she finds time away from me to be relaxing in itself.<\/p>\n

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Good pizza and great big band jazz on Wednesdays<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

We joined up with cousin, Donny Gruseth and his wife, Arlene for a fun evening in Mesa at a place called the \u201cPizza Mart\u201d on Wednesday night. My friend and fellow musician, Rich Smith of Sioux Falls, plays \u00a0bass in a band that\u2019s made up almost entirely of elderly snowbirds who, at first glance, didn\u2019t look like they could play a lick. But from the very first note it was obvious we were in for something special. Playing music transforms people. Years melt away when they stand up to take a ride or belt out a familiar tune on the microphone. Sit-ins are welcome and I confess to cringing a bit when an old lady was barely able to hobble up from out of the big crowd to the stage but when she began to sing an old torch-light song with the band following along perfectly, this elderly woman became what she obviously had been all those decades ago; a heart breaker who would send men swooning ala Lena Horne. When she finished to thunderous applause, the band leader announced there was a guy from Sioux Falls in the audience we\u2019d like to call up here. Oh, No, I thought. Now I know how the comedian must have felt on the Ed Sullivan Show when he had to follow The Beatles. But I clomped up there and gave my best effort at singing Bye Bye Blackbird and just like that it was time to say Bye Bye because tents fold up early around here. Donny and Arlene thought we should grab a bite to eat but neither of us knew what would still be open in Mesa after 8:30..so we agreed to rendezvous at a later date. \u00a0Perhaps Friday. It\u2019s Karaoke night at the Legion and our daughter already has songs picked out for me to try.<\/p>\n

Golf and music. Now that\u2019s more like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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