La Vie En Rose, The City of Joy, and Golf

Enjoyed a very good movie tonight: La Vie En Rose, a story of Edith Piaf, a French singer from my Mom's generation and who died young at 47 in 1963. Worth your time; get it. Gets a five star rating from me; from Diane, a six, no, a ten... I think she liked it.

Also finished my first book of the new year, one which took my breath away. The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre. All about life in a section of Calcutta that is home to the poor and the destitute. Made me tear up more than once.

At the golf course for the afternoon and did play nine holes with Doug Denson. A couple of 36's - pretty good for a January day with ground that was very wet. Doug is a very good putter and more instinctive than analytical in his approach to putting. He does use a couple of 2x4's to groove his putting stroke when it gets out of whack on him. Expect the 2x4's serve the same purpose as this putting track system, making sure that one's stroke is on a line both backwards and forwards.

Alan Swayze pulled up as I was leaving to enquire about the start of the Senior League. His partner last year, Charlie Sheetz, wanted to make sure Alan was on board. Alan is a brand new grandpa and enjoying his new status though would love to see the new granddaughter more than he does - she's way down south in Atlanta.

Pretty mild winter so far - knock on wood. Think we've had more playable days here in January in the first nine days than we had in the entire month of December. Please knock on wood again. And yes we would love to have some more.

So it goes.