Champion Hills Member-Member Tournament

This past week I played in my first Member-Member golf tournament. This is the largest tournament the club has and ran from Thursday evening thru Sunday evening. Since I signed up late, I did not have a partner (2 man best ball format). The person the club paired me with got a stiff neck and packed out at the last minute. I met my new partner on Thursday evening at a pre-start dinner & drinks event. We played five (5) nine hole matches within our flight. On Sunday afternoon when we completed our fifth match, we were told that we won our flight and had to go to a shootout to determine the overall club champion. We lasted two playoff holes and ended up fourth overall (out of 36 teams), but first in our flight. I also got closet to the pin award for one of the par 3's, a 165 yard hole. My shot on Saturday ended up 26 inches from the pin. Too bad it did not go in !!

Here is picture of my partner and I at the awards dinner on Sunday evening.

House Update

Progress on the house has been good. The plumber has installed the drainage pipes in the lower level, the hot/cold water and drainage pipes in the kitchen and powder room, and installed a radon mitigation system under all of the concrete slab areas.

We are still forming walls in part of the house and plan on pouring these at the end of this week. If we have good weather, the garage area, kitchen area, and lower level concrete slabs will be poured on Friday or Monday. We are keeping our fingers crossed for good weather.

David & Melissa's Wedding

We had a wonderful time this past week in Colorado celebrating David and Melissa's wedding. It was held in Devil's Thumb Ranch, just outside of Winterpark, CO and the location was perfect. The weather was ideal: warm days and cool evenings. Besides the wedding activities, we golfed, hiked, visited with relatives and newfound friends. It was great getting to know Melissa's family and we look forward to seeing them again. We will be sending out a CD-ROM with all of our pictures.

Footings & Poured Walls

We returned home on Friday evening, July 24, and went to the lot on Saturday morning. There was good progress! We should be out of town more often. The footings and 80% of the walls have been poured. We still need small footings for the deck and the front porch area. This will be done once the waterproofing, drainage system, and backfilling are completed. Our neighbors were very impressed by the amount of hard work from this crew. This was nice to hear. We are looking forward to going to Minnesota in two weeks and coming back to see all of the progress!!

Footings Update

This has been a rather slow week for the company putting in the footers. I was with the contractor on Tuesday morning when he met with the people doing the work. The excavator did not clear all of the rock where the footings are to be placed. They are doing most of the rock breaking by using a pick axe and lots of manual labor. There is one ledge of rock that still remains in the way. Mom and I will take our tools down this weekend and see if we can break it up. This should save hours of labor.

We look forward to leaving for David's wedding on Tuesday. Maybe when we come back we will see some progress.

July 4th Golf Tournament

Mom and I played in the July 4th Mixed Golf Tournament today. Based on our team handicap, we were assigned to the fourth flight. There were three other flights of golfers, comprising 32 teams.

The results are in: We won our flight !! Mom sunk a 35 foot putt on our last hole to give us a birdie and that was the stroke we needed to move into first.

Here are some pictures of us at the first hole. The couple we played with is Gloria and Alan Wasserman. A great couple from the New Jersey area who we met last fall.

Footings Started

The footings were started this week. I think the main contractor hired the turtle crew. They work about 2-3 hours a day, but always have time for a long lunch hour. The forms are suppose to be ready for concrete early next week.