A Caring Hand

Does he care?   

You damn right he does!

This says it all!

Pete Souza took this official White House photo during President Obama's visit to the 

Colorado Springs area on Friday, June 29.  

What's in a name?

About 22 years ago fledgling professional golfers in search of the big time checks started participating in a minor league tour named after and by the Ben Hogan Company.

A couple of years later The Hogan Tour became the Nike Tour, named after that company.  That lasted 6 years.

Then came the Buy.Com tour.  That lasted for a couple years.

Then came the Nationwide tour.  That lasted from then until today (June 27, 2012).

Starting today, the Nationwide Tour is gone and it is now to be known as the Web.Com tour.

The participants have the same goal...play good enough to get a card and then try the big time.  Some make it, some bounce back and forth.

Someday, maybe professional tour golf will return to Albuquerque and New Mexico.  It was here for the Nike years.  It was hear for the Buy.Com years.  And before that it was here for the Sunwest Bank Charley Pride Senior Golf Classic.

All we need is a company to belly-up-to-the-bar with a few hundred thousand dollars and away we go...as Jackie Gleason would say....


He loved golf!

Then and Now

This was then (early this morning & for last 40 years)

This is now

It's even been certified by the National Fenestration Rating Council

The new window has a U-Factor and a Solar Heat Gain Coefficient and Visible Transmittance

All of that must be good!

(I wonder how one gets appointed to the National Fenestration Rating Council and if it pays members to attend meetings at 5 star resorts at least twice a year.  If so, I'm interested.)

Summer's here

Summertime and the solstice.

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Memorial Day

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beimer

Camp Adair Oregon or Ft. Leonard Wood Missouri

early 1940's - World War II

Dad was headed for Germany with the 70th Infantry

He returned to Taos after WWII and lived there until his death in the late '80s.

Mom lives on in Albuquerque (approaching the 94th).

Vacation Report #1

Having just returned from about two weeks in the Puerto Vallarta area of Mexico I can report, all was well.

Here are some sights from south of the border down Mexico way.

Guayabitos - primarily a location that is frequented by tourists from Mexico. 

It is a beautiful beach, plenty of places to frolic, eat and drink.

Speaking of frolic.  Here's a pineapple drink fashioned by Ramon at the beach club adjacent to our condo.

Hmmmm

And here's the courtyard at Playa Royale in Nuevo Vallarta, where we go twice a year.  Precisely manicured (note the stripes from the lawn mower) a number of those palm trees are holding soon to be ripe coconuts.  That's the Bay of Banderas way out yonder.  Hurricane Bob, that turned in to a tropical depression before arrival, was/is supposed to enter from Bahia Banderas.  

I've always wanted to have a hurricane party!

Mexican sunsets are the best!  The sun is setting over Punta Mita, the home of a Four Seasons and a St. Regis resort. We've not been able to get through the gate to check it out.

Vacation time