January 16th

“Mercury Forecast Edmonton -4 degrees, Calgary 3 degrees, Mesa 25 degrees”

Jackie was out early this morning to go to her first Yoga class of 2026. We will see how her muscles react to that.

I took Daisy down to the dog park and even though no dogs to play with she did her business. She is a funny girl.

The air temperature rises so fast it is amazing. 8 am to 9 am and it jumps 5 degrees and today hitting 25 with no wind it was wonderful.

I readied everything for my first golf game of 2026. With lots of anticipation I hit the course. First hole ended with a easy birdie. Another birdie a few holes later and some good holes and then some bad holes. I have always struggled controlling a slice but today control was not in the cards as I lost two balls due to slicing. I finished 9 holes with a 40 which I can life with but ended the game at 92 which 10 higher than I would want. Plus Ron P a great golfer who is 83 yrs old beat me and the rest of the guys. He was the low gross and low net today. Arnold who is 90 yrs old also golfed very well with us today. Arnold and Wayne will join again on Monday. Nice guys.

Our group has it’s ebb’s and flows of people coming and leaving. It was fairly stable for a few years but this year we have been hit with a lot of changes. Jim W decided to sell his place so is gone. Denis H decided to join a league and doesn’t golf with anymore. Mike and Barry only golf once a week with us.

We have been lucky in getting Lyle to golf consistently, we have Sandy joining us now more often and Jim H will play more often.

But to add to this coming and goings, Barry decided to sell his place and sold his in one day. So he will play until the end of March and won’t be back. He has decided to travel and stay in Italy and like countries for a few months instead.

It is a sweet time to buy in Viewpoint right now as the pricing is down. Reminds me of 2007 when we bought with a slight depression of pricing and a huge potential of a upswing. I know there are some nice units selling pretty cheap. It is always cyclical but this year when add the political climate and exchange we lost a few more Canadians.

So it was a very pleasant and fun day once again and I will work on my slice one more time. Drives me nuts to always have to fight it. It is the difference between my score of 77 and 87 every time.

I was disappointed in the greens. They are not a lot better than we left. I strongly think they should be giving a discounted price due to this.

Thought of the Day

They call it golf as every other four word is taken.