NFJG Eagle Harbor Tournament - Elite Girls 13 - 18

The Harbor Challenge, being played in our "back yard" included 11 Elite Girls and 21 Rising Girls. AA was paired with Isabel Matos at 11:21. The weather was moderate for winter, supposed to be cloudy but turned sunny! Coach Bryan and Ms. Penny came out to watch the EH players.
From Facebook: Yesterday, Alyzabeth competed in another #NFJG Tournament, Elite Girls (13 - 18) and placed second with her BEST score ever - 73! One over Par. #AlyzabethMorganGolf #girlsgolf #juniorgolf #BestScoreEver Excellent round! Thank you to the NFJG staff, caught Lynne and Kevin together and Director Jack talking golf with the younger boys - they were mesmerized by Jack! Congratulations to many Fleming Island winners and to their Coach Bryan M. Kipnis #EagleHarborGolf #ScreamingEagles. Overall tournament scores: E. Kondal placed first, EH's Tyler Mawhinney, 2nd and EH's AA tied for 3rd place entire tournament overall score!
Last hole: Ford taking a photo:

Walking back to Clubhouse:

Scoreboard, waiting on two tees times to finish.

Scoring Table:

AA's hard work is paying off, from extra practicing to exercising at Boost classes, and brainy too - All A's the first two quarters of 7th grade! Kevin Glynn, PGA Professional making the awards:

The winners: Matos (3rd) Morgan (2nd) Kondal FIRST place:

Outside at Eagle Harbor:

Scores:

Lynne Kirkpatrick and Kevin Glynn, both rules officials:

Computer Scores:

Director Jack talking to the younger boys: 

From Director Jack's Newsletter/highlights: Kondal would take the Gold Medal this week, but Fleming Islands Alyzabeth Morgan is also making her move to the top of the Girls rankings. Morgan would once again play some very special golf taking the Silver Medal for her fine performance with a one over par 73.  Four birdies on the day would keep her four strokes ahead of senior Isabel Matos who shot a nice pair of 7’s (77) earning her the Bronze Medal. 

Week of January 20th - 26th

My last post ended with the MLK Jr. Holiday Monday.
Tuesday: AA has much homework and tests this week. She scored a 105 on her Spanish test and continues to get 90's in her other classes ( a 91 this week in 9th Grade Algebra). She is amazing! With golf and robotics, she has very little time for fun.
Wednesday, we were to meet Hugh, Maureen, Kathy and Penny at the Holiday Inn for drinks and dinner, but I was miserable all day with what I thought was a cold, so we didn't go. By Thursday morning I felt fine with no cold symptoms. I was surprised, I guess a shot of NyQuil killed the germs!
Thursday, Ford and AA made it to Boost while I had my monthly haircut and color with Steve.
Friday: I did not work (worked Mon-Thurs this week), with Ginger at the groomers and the truck in the shop at Suburban, Ford and I headed to Metro Diner for lunch using our discount card we earned when buying gift cards for Christmas gifts. After getting the car washed, picking up Ginger and the truck, time to get AA from school. She changed at home, ate half a sandwich and headed to the golf course. After trying to unpack another box in the garage, I joined Ford at the Talon's deck and enjoyed a glass of wine while AA was with Coach Bryan. 

Back at home, preparing dinner of tacos while AA was on her hover board.

And BRAG alert - AA earned all A's the first two grading periods at OPJH - so proud of her hard work!

Friday: Homemade tacos for dinner, with black beans and lime jasmine rice.
Saturday: AA played 18 holes at Eagle Harbor as a practice round for Sunday's Elite Girls NFJG Tournament with Tyler Mawhinney and Luke Balaskiewicz. After Tyler left for his basketball game, they were joined by several people including these guys, Calvin and Alphonso:

Then off to the River House with my deviled eggs for our appetizer. It was an off Saturday with everyone busy (Erin in town, Penny at US Kids Golf)) so we enjoyed a quiet visit with Trish. And I did make homemade dumplings for won-ton soup. Getting my Chinese cooking on!

Cooking the dumplings and preparing the soup broth.

Ginger and I walked several times today, went to the Vet to have her ears checked (now have instructions on removing hair from her ears and ear drops for the next two weeks), went to Moccasin Park for a walk and twice near our neighborhood.

Tomorrow, Sunday, another great NFJG Tournament coming up!

Another Week of January 2020 - Thru the 20th

Still can't believe it is 2020! Another week flew by! Monday the 13th, I can't remember what we did; we did make it to Boost that evening. I need to take a picture of our "white board" before wiping it clean for the next week. Can't remember what we did without the schedule on the white board!
Thursday, the 16th, I slept over at Carolyn's home, we ate take out Thai food and enjoyed a glass of wine called Middle Sister, given to her by her older sister Kathy. A good visit as usual!

Ford received an email from his cousin from Alaska and this family photo.

Occasionally I take photos of Ginger, this time relaxing on the screen back porch, weather was nice, not like the freezing weather coming next week!

I tried taking a few family photos since we didn't at Christmas time. Here's the best we did:

I cropped this one, not too bad.

Outside, it was too dark, early evening:

And just to thank my Mom again for the gift of a lifetime membership to the Mayflower society. I paid my annual dues for 30 years! Thanks Mom!

Sunday, the 19th, Alyzabeth and I went to see Little Women at the Fleming Island Theater. It was a good movie, jumped around starting with the later years in the book then back to the earlier years. At times, I had to look at what they were wearing to determine what age the sisters were. A bit confusing but by the middle of the movie, I was used to it. It is not in chronological order.

I took this photo at the movie's very beginning, youngest sister Amy grown up with Aunt (Meryl Streep). The movie began near the end of the book.

January 20th MLK Day - AA didn't have school, so while I worked, she and Ford played golf with Ms. Penny, then they checked out the seasoned french fries at Talon's. Always good as long as they don't run out!
Chinese (Lunar) New Year begins next week, so I put out a few items to get ready.

OPJH Robotics Gets the Win!

Saturday the 18th, I worked and Alyzabeth competed with her OPJH Robotics Team at Lake Asbury - and earned the WIN!
From Facebook: Congratulations to the #OPJH Robotics team for their win yesterday! Excellent drivers, no penalty points, the holonomic drivetrain allows it to go in any direction, the mechanisms worked more efficiently, then building a tower of blocks and topping it with their Gladiator helmet. #RoboticsTeam
From AA's Daddy: Great group of young people. Highly motivated. Proud for them.

The wheels!

The Team!

And Ford and AA made it to our Saturday evening River House cocktail hour with corn dip - while I made it right from work! Nice visit!

January Frost, the 80's, Noah, RH, Mellow Mushroom....

Our weather has been really cold for a few days then a stretch of the 70's and 80's. Beautiful!
Tuesday thru Friday goes very fast for me. I worked and then came home to dinner with AA and Ford. They golfed and went to Boost, while Thursday I spent over night at Carolyn's. Carolyn and I chat and have dinner, then seem to yawn our way to an early bedtime!
Saturday (01/11/20), AA went to Robotics and we tried to clean a little more of the garage and finally got the golf cart inside! Major accomplishment. Ford took a motorcycle ride to Sweet Sensations for our "outlaw chicken salad", yummy for our River House "happy hour" food, AA did some homework and soon Noah was dropped off for video gaming fun. Colleen and Mark came to the River House about 6 pm and we chatted with Hugh, Maureen and Penny. Penny gave AA a bracelet made from recycled plastic from the ocean. Glad we have people with the time, money and creativity to make something positive.

Colleen and Mark gave us a bottle of their favorite red wine, said whenever they find it, they buy a case, and we have one to try! Thanks!

Sunday, 01/12/20, we ate brunch at our local Metro Diner, so much food, very filling, kept us full until our Mellow Mushroom meet-up at 3:30 p.m.

Took a few quick photos before the subjects could protest too much!

I unpacked another box of china, washed and put away; have about 20 more boxes to go!

Sunday afternoon, went to the St. Augustine Mellow Mushroom to visit with Leaa and family, had a short visit with Cathy and Werner as they sat with Lily and Bill Copp (Hillary's Parents - Hillary is in Tallahassee). Cara, Travis and Pearl came to listen too. Good seeing the family.

Dylan joins in for a song:

Jesse with niece Pearl:

Now it's on to Monday the 13th!

Monday 01/06/2020 - Golfing with Coach Bryan

We began our Monday with taking AA to her OPJH Robotics Team practice. She is part of the coding team and they are now coding the latest robot. Their next competition is 01/18/20. Ford exercised at Achieve then hit the grocery store. Tonight is "Meatless Monday"so having our usual Bruschetta.
AA had a golf lesson with Coach Bryan and golfed nine holes with Bryan and his two children, Nate and Addison.

Crowded golf cart with Addison, AA and Bryan; Nate was pushing his cart most of the time, otherwise they were all crowded in! (Nate placed 2nd yesterday at the US Kids Golf Tournament):

AA's drive on Hole 7:

FM and Coach Bryan chatting, so positive about AA's recent tournaments:

It was great getting out and seeing AA play with the Kipnis's. We had a golf cart battery go dead. Called Marshall at the Pro Shop and he sent Austin to push us back to the shop/Talons. We enjoyed some wine while the cart charged up, then AA was finished and off to Achieve/Boost at 6 p.m. I prepared the dinner (Bruschetta) and then it was time to relax! Love my Mondays!