Still waiting

It's getting warmer and warmer and I'm dying to play golf. This weekend on sunday it was freezing cold. Probably about 3 degrees and the golf course I live on was packed. 150 golfers made it out with carts and everything. I would have never played in those conditions, but it made me want to play even more. Atleast the weather is turning and i more than likely will get atleast one round in before my trip to arizona.

Life with the Harper (my dog) is going great. He is a great dog and has made the tranisition to living with me very well. He is extremely well behaved, loves to just ay on the couch, and seems like he is always happy. Our favourite thing to do right now is take long walks on the golf course. We start out on the first hole and just randomly walk all over the course. I take a tennis ball with me and play fetch with him here and there. He wanders off sniffing stuff and running around, but the great thing about it is he never lets me get to far away. He will always run right back to me. It's actually a lot of fun for me to walking out there. I get excersise which is great cause I've been doing nothing all winter, and it makes me feel good to know that he is happy. Even though it's only been a week of us doing that, i can tell that my endurance for walking is getting better. I'm hoping it actually helps on the course when I'm playing. I found myself getting tired last year by the end of the round. How sad is that? Tired from walking to much. Of course any golfer will tell you that walking the course for 4.5 hours if much harder than people think. But still, i'm young and capable, i shouldn't be so tired. I also think thats why I tended to tail off at the end of my rounds. Just getting tired physically by the end probably effected me mentally aswell and i don't concentrate the same way i do at the start of a round. Oh well, it's not like its my only problem. On top of being tired, I still suck even if i'm not tired.

Looking for the Pins

I can remember this time last year, calling Matt and Cal at the same time, "Guys the pins are in, the pins are in." The official mark of the golf season. Weather is holding us back a bit so far, but I drive past everyday looking for the 18th hole pin. I can't wait for that day.

I've got 3 weeks untill me trip to Arizona. I can't wait to finally get back out on the course. I've already lined up 4 of our 6 rounds while in arizona. We are looking toplay some amazing courses. I just have 2 more tee times to make. Troon North, and a suggestion course from my buddy Matt called Apache Canyon, or something like that. The Apache course is like $55 US and looks like it might be one of the nicest courses we are going to play. Yesterday Preston got his cast off, but the DR told him he will be lucky to play in 3.5 weeks. I even called our buddy Gary and asked him about it and he sounded pretty confident telling me that there is no way he is going to play. Luckly Tocker from Montreal signed up for the trip so atleast him and I will be able to play everyday. I was looking forward to playing with all 3 of us, but I will find a way to manage with the 2 of us playing.

I'm going to the last hockey game of the year for me. Toronto vs Buffalo, again. Kind of weird that I have seen those 2 teams play now 3 or 4 times. It's always a great game cause I like watching my favourite team beat the one team I hate the most. Both games I saw in buffalo the sabres lost. The last one i went to early this month the Sabres beat T.O. , hopefully we get a big win tomorrow night.

I'm still waiting on my club from the golf club. I ordered it awhile ago and of course it is taking forever to come in. I bet if Matt ordered one today it would be in before mine and he would pay $50 bucks less then me. Why do i get screwed by the proshop?

Weekend Update

Nothing exciting to blog about, again. Except for Harper coming home on saturday. I went to windsor friday night. Drove half way there is a horrible snow storm that decided to hit Niagara all the way to Brantford. It took me 3. 5 hours to get to london. Awful, no other way to describe it.

saturday was much better, especially driving home with Harper. I was lucky enough to have my friend Preston drive for me so i could sit in the back with Harper. He wasn't to keen on being in a car. He was so nervous the whole ride, and he didn't like thecar very much. He through up 3 times coming back from detroit, and drooled uncontrolably the whole time. I felt bad for him, but as the ride went on he calmed down and eventually just slept on my lap the whole way. Other than the car ride home, he has been a wonderful dog. He already follows me every where I go, and has become quite comfortable on the couch. He's only about half the size he's going to be and already takes up a good chunk of the couch when he stretches out. He's very mellow, doesn't bark much, and hasn't had an accident once yet in the house. I take him outside all the time, so I dont really give him a chance to anyways. Today is his first day all alone in the house. I left him in a crate and my mom is going to watch him for most of the day, but he's spending the first 2 or 3 hours in the crate so he can get used to it. Hopefully sooner than later he is able to be all alone in my house without the crate.

Other than that, I didnt do anything else. Watched a lot of the NCAA Tournament. Not a lot of great games, except for Duke loosing on thursday. Hopefully it picks up this nexxt weekend in the sweet 16. There's no cinderella teams this year, so it's all the best against the best. SHould be some great games coming up.

Hows this for something stupid.

Everyone, meet Harper. The newest addition to the Family. He is a 5 month old Labradoodle.

I'm finally taking the plunge, and getting my own dog. I'm in for a lot changes in my life, but I'm looking forward to it. I have no experience with a new puppy all by myself, so it's going to be very challenging having my own dog. I'm going to have to walk him like crazy, exercise with him, take full care of him. It's a huge responsibility that I have been thinking about for awhile now. It wasn't untill I saw this picture on sunday that I knew I had to have him. This guy is going to be the best, i can't wait. I pick him up this sunday in windsor.

Also this weekend, I went to the Leafs game again in toronto. They played Ottawa and it was actually a great game. Went into overtime and everything. Only thing is I missed the last 4 minutes of the game and overtime. I took a customer of mine to the game and he wanted to leave early. Even as we were leaving the leafs ties it up at 3, and he still wanted to go. Didn't really matter to me cause I hate the leafs, and dont care much for Ottawa (I'm a sabres fan), but still, missed out on a good game. Atleast the end of it.

Thats it for now, updates to come on Harper in the nest few weeks.