Friday, August 22, 2025 Tired Out so Let's Golf

 

Friday, August 22, 2025 Tired Out so Let’s Golf

My humans are sleeping.  I can crawl over this human, and wedge myself in between them.  I don’t quite fit, so I have to hang over one of them.  I will bathe my paws until I wake one of them and they can move a little.

Our morning walk took us to Frontier Town.  This is a tourist frontier town dedicated to the buffalo.  There is a buffalo museum, some live buffalo that may show their faces, a huge statue of a buffalo – billed as the largest buffalo in the country.  The town has a saloon, Louis L’Amour writers shack, train depot, sheriff station and the usual crapola you might find on a western movie set.  It is very hokey, but I am sure kids love it. 

We then walked through some of the neighborhoods.  Lots of people have boats and RVs.  The homes are nice, middle class homes with lawns, flowers and fabulous enormous trees.

Since we weren’t sure when our tires would come in, we booked another night here.  As it turns out, our tires were in by 10 am.  We were in and out of there by noon.  We replaced the spare tire we used as it was old, and we also got a new spare.  We should be good to go.

Well, since it was early, we decided to golf North Dakota.  We got to the Hillcrest Golf Club, and readied ourselves for 9 holes.  The winds were kicking up.  Spouse was whining.  I figured it was all part of the adventure.  It is an OK course.  The layout is decent.  It has the usual hazards of bunkers, and water here and there.  What I didn’t like about it was that the fairway grass was way too long.  You could hit a perfect ball, and it would still sink in the grass.  So between the winds and the deep fairway grass, you really had to use more club than you would normally.  And the greens were diabolical!  Barely touching the ball could send it to another time zone!  The winds really came up on the last 3 holes.  We wanted to finish before a tornado formed!  HOLY MOLY it is windy!

We decided to go to a Mexican restaurant.  And… I did something I have never done, and knew I shouldn’t have, but couldn’t help myself…  It looked like a mom, grandma and 2 kids about 7 and 9 came in.  One kid had some gaming device.  While the others were talking, the kid could not pull himself away from the device. He played, he played, he played.   Even when his food came, he barely touched it while he gamed.  He would game with one hand.  Take a quick bite then game some more.  Everyone is trying to engage him… but he just gamed…  When we left, I walked up to him and told him that he was lucky to have his mother, because if he were my kid, he would NEVER be allowed to have an electronic device, since he couldn’t put it down long enough to spend time with his family.  The mother looked stunned.  I couldn’t help it!  She wasn’t doing her job!  Ahhhh… none of my business, I know, but it sure felt good!

Speaking of feeling good… you know how when you get a bug bite, and you know you shouldn’t scratch it, but you do scratch it.  Then it itches more, and you scratch more, and it feels good and you keep scratching till you work your way through your skin to your bones…  I am getting fewer bites now, and my Benadryl is a miracle cream!

Tomorrow, we think we are going to head down along the Missouri River.  At least, that is the plan as of this minute.

HOLY MOLY it is windy!!!!!