{"id":232,"date":"2010-09-29T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/2010\/09\/29\/the-playing-field\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:17:00","slug":"the-playing-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"The Playing Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

It occurred to me just now that Down Home Ranch has a distinct advantage in Special Olympics when it comes to our favorite events.<\/p>\n

We have a swimming pool, we have a stable and horses, we have wide open spaces to knock golf balls around in, and we have a bocce court and we all live here so we can do them whenever we want.<\/p>\n

Granted, no bowling alleys yet, but it’s not out of the question!<\/p>\n

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Alaina at the long putt<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\ufeff However, what really warmed my husband’s heart was coming home from the golfing event Monday and proclaiming to Jerry, “We really have to have a putting green!”  After that he fixed supper two nights in a row!<\/p>\n

And I’m serious.  <\/p>\n

When we arrived at Spicewood Golf Club on perhaps the prettiest fall day in a decade, we learned our first skills event would be the short and long putt on the putting green.  I was absolutely itching<\/em> to grab a club and go at it, but this was their event, not mine, so I restrained myself.<\/p>\n

However, I also consoled myself with the thought of that beautiful putting green sitting nobly at the entrance of the Village, resolving that I personally would manicure it with tiny scissors so that never a wretched weed would threaten its pristine lovliness.<\/p>\n

We also have a bulldozer….<\/p>\n

We’ve thought about a three-hole course plus green in the past, and this is clearly the time to do it.  Our golfers are pretty good, and they all have the capability of being a lot better.<\/p>\n

I expect great things to come out of our golf event this year.  Great things have in fact already<\/em> occurred: we dragged out all the golf clubs people have given us over the year and have spent many hours sorting through them and collecting them into usable sets.<\/p>\n

Below are pictures of our golfing day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Jerry with about a fourth of the donated clubs we now own<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Down Home Ranch Golfers<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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J.J. awards prizes to Kelly (1) & Rebekah (2)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Michael and Naomi before the meet<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Alaina, Natalie & Kristen at awards ceremony<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It occurred to me just now that Down Home Ranch has a distinct advantage in Special Olympics when it comes to our favorite events. We have a swimming pool, we have a stable and horses, we have wide open spaces to knock golf balls around in, and we have a bocce court and we all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,216,217,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-home-ranch","category-golf","category-special-olympics","category-spicewood-country-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}