Fun Springtime Weekend On The Front Range ~ Golf, Red Leg, Ute Mtb, Golf With MLC, Stop @ Tomahawk 01May24 - 05May24

First up was Kala on Wednesday wanting to hit some gold balls! We headed over to Patty Jewitt, a great COS muni. It was a smidge breezy but we won't blame that. Best practice areas and putting green in the state ~ GR8 in the shadow of Pike's Peak. Kala was hitting well.

Of course we hit Red Leg on the way home and sat in our fav CO Adirondack ski chairs. My suggestion of lobster rolls was summarily rejected @ $28 each. That night we caught the latest from Elizabeth Moss and we fully approve of the The Veil... surely reminded us of Homeland with Claire Danes.

Thursday I cajoled Jim to head out for a ride before enduring my 3rd unsatisfying call with CO agencies, insurance support persons, and an appeals board ~ where all three said "I can't help you" ~ I bailed for the time being and we had some more fun.

Friday I hit the Atlantic Sun Conf lacrosse championships hosted this year @ Falcon stadium in COS. The host Falcons were 7-1 in the league and decent overall; they were seeded 2nd behind the Utah Utes. Both these teams are affiliate members of ASUN (playing just lax in the league). Awesome; one would've thought... the 1st game saw the Ute slaughter Cleveland St. And, the 2nd game with a rematch between the Falcons and Jacksonville U had the bolts down quickly and really never in it well enough. How can JU play that hard (great energy from them) at 7Kft elevation when they live at 56ft? AFA lost by 4 goals despite being tied on tow occasions.

Oh well, there are many more great league championships this weekend before we pick the sweetest 16 next week. Bittersweet... as that includes my old team, the mighty Mountain Hawks of Lehigh, who handled Navy in their semi game, and faces BU in the championship of the Patriot league today... which they won and will be in the NCAA tourney. Woohoo.

So, Saturday was qualifying for the Miami F1 race AND it was qualifying for the Coffin-Marietta 3-some at Patty Jewitt Prarie course. We had a blast with Derrick, a para-olympian coach with 6 going to Paris. I played well through 6 as did Kala with her improved ball-striking. Matt wasn't with us but on occasion as yesterday's poke bowl got him on the run. None the less, it as nice but windy and a blast being with the kid for nine and dine. Too, we got the kid an early bday gift of a MLC-colored 4# walking bag; his current bag leaks balls and fails to stand well from some fails.

I recorded the lax league championship games and headed to Summit. Kala got to play another round of golf with her friend Gail ~ nice. Matt @ CO Lumber had completed some tough cuts on 18mm birch plywood for me for a new set of speakers I'm building; assembly and use are in the NestMT. I went the back way on #24/#9 and stopped at Tomahawk for my 1st effort of the year on the Middle Fk. Decent but weird... I wielded the fun RFT3 loaded with a chubby and trailing egg and caddis weighted by Perdigon. I did catch a half doz rainbows! ~ in several hours. The 'bows hit the Perdigon and egg and some small browns hit the caddis on the swing. Water is stained but at perfect pre-melt flows at 90cfs... pretty fun but weird. I'd arrived early and appraised normal attendees of the sitch on departure ~ some think is unwarranted; it won't hold me back. Cool meadow.