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Something in your water.
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Sorta like a doctor I went to years ago when I was pretty sick. Her professional diagnosis? "It's just a bug that's going around."
 
Years and years ago you could get watermelons off the side of the road for 10 for a dollar. !0 cents apiece. On my first trip to Florida right after I married I told my wife the minute we hit the Florida line you are going to see truck loads of watermelons for sale. Ten for a dollar. She laughed. Sure enough the signs were up 10 for a dollar.

But I will have to say this. They were not the big rattlesnake melons, more like icebox size.

Icebox watermelon

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Rattlesnake watermelon

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Is there anything better when it hot than COLD watermelon?? I have a long list too......
 
My personal all-time starting 5 in the NBA

Magic
Bird
Jordan
Wilt
Barkley

My all time favorite NBA player is

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Back a long, long time ago, my friend Jim Reese went with me to one of the early ABA games in Louisville.

He, Julius, came in and stumbled to the goal and scored. Then about a minute later he stumbled to the goal and scored again.

After about 10 times of him stumbling to the goal and scoring we started to ask "who the hell is that skinny guy?"

It was Julius.
 
Years and years ago you could get watermelons off the side of the road for 10 for a dollar. !0 cents apiece. On my first trip to Florida right after I married I told my wife the minute we hit the Florida line you are going to see truck loads of watermelons for sale. Ten for a dollar. She laughed. Sure enough the signs were up 10 for a dollar.

But I will have to say this. They were not the big rattlesnake melons, more like icebox size.

Icebox watermelon

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Rattlesnake watermelon

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In Korea, watermelons are a delicacy. They go for twenty dollars or more on the open market.
 
These were different pics I took at the Commissary in Daegu at different times. Needless to say I skipped these during the three years I was there... (Not that I couldn't have bought one but it was the principal of knowing what I paid for them in the states.) I never could have enjoyed them. Much higher off post.

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Won't even go into the cost of Spam...

Oh, the South Korean Grid... And my Darling...

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Hope all are doing ok. Went golfing today, after last Sunday’s first time in 20 years. Dang, I suck. Can’t believe how much length I’ve lost. But I’ll figure it out. Love competition, even if it’s me against me. To all in the D with health issues, wish you my best.
Amazing how golf is a game of timing. Hand/eye coordination. During high school and college I probably averaged at least 9 holes per day. Got fairly good to where I came close to a college scholarship. Then career started after college, got married, had kids and priorities were on the kids so golf went by the wayside. Played maybe one round in 25+ years. This Summer my son was up from Atlanta and we went out in one of our fields to hit some middle/short irons. I couldn't even hit the ball! Kind of like a Charlie Brown moment 😥
 
Morning D. Happy Sunday morning to you.
Sounded like some wind & rain blew through early this morning.
Laid on the couch most of the day & night yesterday...I think I was getting caught up from last week finally.
Played golf Friday, it was a little brisk but, like they say...I wasn’t at work. Gonna try to play this Friday also weather pending.
Hope all are well
Basketball is getting close...maybe.
 
Amazing how golf is a game of timing. Hand/eye coordination. During high school and college I probably averaged at least 9 holes per day. Got fairly good to where I came close to a college scholarship. Then career started after college, got married, had kids and priorities were on the kids so golf went by the wayside. Played maybe one round in 25+ years. This Summer my son was up from Atlanta and we went out in one of our fields to hit some middle/short irons. I couldn't even hit the ball! Kind of like a Charlie Brown moment 😥
That’s exactly how I did at first lol. My wife laughed her butt off watching me trying to hit driver off the tee. I would swing and the tee would go about ten feet, and the ball would just drop to the ground.
 
Good morning from ATX. Currently 58°F, sunny and breezy. Cold front arrived earlier this morning. 73°F is our projected high for today. Nice, except for the wind.

Watched lots of football yesterday. Happy our Cats won, but it seems offense carried the defense. Cats play the Tide next Saturday at their house.

Chores and errands await here in a bit.

Wishing happiness and good health to all our fellow D-League members.

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It is a windy 58.8°F and clearing skies. We got .33 inches of rain this morning. The wind must be gusting to around 30 mph. I have some limbs out of the cherry tree on the ground. This wind has taken most of the hackberry, maple and wild cherry leaves off.

On golf: I am horrible; however, I spent my career at the railroad in Sales and Marketing and we played golf with our customers a lot. They paid for my country club membership and we wore out the course and the bar and the restaurants. On golf, I never got good. At the time I worked at CSX we owned the Greenbriar. We would take customers there. Sam Snead was the pro and he told me twice that I should give up the game. I told him I would not and he had to play with me and my customers because that was his job. He was a fine man but crotchety as could be. Way up into his 70's he could shoot near par.

I think that the lowest I ever shot would be in the high 80's.
 
Morning D. Happy Sunday morning to you.
Sounded like some wind & rain blew through early this morning.
Laid on the couch most of the day & night yesterday...I think I was getting caught up from last week finally.
Played golf Friday, it was a little brisk but, like they say...I wasn’t at work. Gonna try to play this Friday also weather pending.
Hope all are well
Basketball is getting close...maybe.

Atta boy. A true D-Leaguer.
 
It is a windy 58.8°F and clearing skies. We got .33 inches of rain this morning. The wind must be gusting to around 30 mph. I have some limbs out of the cherry tree on the ground. This wind has taken most of the hackberry, maple and wild cherry leaves off.

On golf: I am horrible; however, I spent my career at the railroad in Sales and Marketing and we played golf with our customers a lot. They paid for my country club membership and we wore out the course and the bar and the restaurants. On golf, I never got good. At the time I worked at CSX we owned the Greenbriar. We would take customers there. Sam Snead was the pro and he told me twice that I should give up the game. I told him I would not and he had to play with me and my customers because that was his job. He was a fine man but crotchety as could be. Way up into his 70's he could shoot near par.

I think that the lowest I ever shot would be in the high 80's.

I have played since I was a kid. Lowest round was a 62 and still play to an 8 handicap. It was lower, but the back has raised it a couple of strokes this year. Hopefully, when I get the back fixed, I can get back down to a 4 or 5. Even if I don't, I will continue to play as long as I am physically able. Love it.
 
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