68 is a lonley number

August 7, 2007 | In Personal, Sports | No Comments

Hey dear reader, its been a while. I would have written sooner but work and leisure have taken up too much of my time and I’ve had to neglect you. I’m sorry, I’ll try harder to spend some time with you, I still care.

The week since the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis has been rather busy. While the worlds eyes were focused on events within a 3 hour drive, I was focused on stuff a little closer to home. The Lincoln County Fair kicked off on Thursday and went straight through Sunday. I was at the fair for at least a short time every day. With the exception of some rain over the weekend fair goers seemed to have a good time.

Ghent also did some celebrating. Belgian America Days included a large number of rolle bolle players and a fire hose soccer game that I unfortunately missed. I was a few minutes late and they already wrapped things up. The parade drew a large crowd though and lots of pictures were taken.

I also spent some time at the Upper Sioux Community Wacipi to wrap up the weekend. With the exception of a camera issue that was resolved on Sunday, the weekend was a success. I did miss one event, but one of my fellow Independent reporters was able to pick up the slack.

Today was the first day of FarmFest, marking the fourth year I’ll be covering the event. I didn’t go today, missing a number of key agriculture leaders, I instead was in county board. I’ll be in Morton Wednesday and Thursday though, so if you see me on the grounds at FarmFest, stop me and say hello.

In an effort to conserve hours, I took the afternoon off. Watched the new Ninja Turtles movie, which was excellent and a fun walk down memory lane. Well done movie. When 5:30 p.m. rolled around Alex and I headed out to the golf course in Balaton to embarrass ourselves. I’ll keep Alex’s final score on the 9 hole par 3 course a secret, but I on the other hand shot a 68 (I think). We walked the course, so of course now I’m rather sore.

At any rate, that’s what I know. Some people say I write too long, sorry for that. I hope you dear reader have enjoyed our little conversation and I look forward to hearing from you again soon.

Update:  I found the score card and it turns out I hit a 63! I know that’s not much better, but it is a marked improvement over the 68 I thought I shot. So there!