Monday, September 28, 2009

Father/Son Golf on Martha's Vineyard



OK, I am neither a father or a son but I did get invited to go to Martha's Vineyard to play golf and generally hang out. The weather was perfect on Saturday and we played at Farm Neck until we ran out of daylight (we completed 13). It is awesome playing right next to the ocean.


I did not hit my second shot into this water hazard, despite my old tendencies. We were playing Scramble and 2 balls landed on the green so my shot (which was left of target) was not fatal. We had a great time and some people even went out Sunday in the rain and played 9.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Sausage, Spinach, Pasta




One of my favorite "one pot meals" ( Okay; it's a very limited category; I need to do more research ! ). Sweet Italian sausage, cut lengthwise and then into 1 inch pieces. After 2-3 minutes, add 1 large onion, chopped. Add 5-6 cups chicken broth; bring to a boil. Add 1 pound of pasta; broken into thirds ( if it's spaghetti or linguine, for example ). Cook and stir for about 8 minutes, then add 2 10 ounce packages of spinach ( fresh not frozen ! ). Wilt; then stir in 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese and 1 cup half-and-half. This seems better the day after; I put it in Tupperware and freeze it to bring it for lunch.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Golf

I am spending 5 days at the TPC Boston (Norton, Mass.) for the Deutsche Bank tournament. Thursday, during the Pro-Am, I got training on the greenside laser. This is the view you get from up in the tower. Some are even better.
The laser is GPS positioned to shoot the ball locations and distances from the hole. It's accurate to the inch !
This info is uplinked to their website and also made available to the TV announcers (If you ever wondered how they knew).