We left the Texarkana tournament a little stunned from Walkers birdie on 18 from a bunker to force a playoff and take the win from Kelly. We went to Sulpher Springs with Mike McCaffery and parked beside his brother-n-laws house. He rented a boat and we woke up at 5 am and went fishing on the Lake Fork. I caught the only fish, a 8in catfish we let go. We did have bloody mary's so it was a nice morning to be on the lake. We are now at Lake Palestine at our Silverleaf time share. We can camp here for free and we are getting a condo thurs-mon. that way Kelly's caddy for the week, Kevin Langley, can stay free and we have a place to get out of the heat.
My dad is bringing the girls to us on Wed., we can't wait, we miss them. Kel has a pro-am today then wed is a media session, Kel has to go to. Look for him on the news. I did my usual media call to all the local channels to remind them of the open. Hope it comes out that Kel is the one and only 4 time champ.

We are in Texarkana without the girls, playing the Adams Tour (Tightlies). They are at my moms having a ball I'm sure. My dad is bringing them to The TX Open in Tyler next week. Kelly played well today.-4. We got to ride carts and it was a little cooler than it has been plus the course is pretty. He played with Clark Denise, so that was fun.(his little brother use to caddy for Kelly on the nationwide). There was a young kid they played with to Ryan Sparks, who just played in the US Open. He had his Open bag, Open hat on and talked about the Open the whole time he rode with Clark.. I guess he didn't know who Clark was, Clark had played in about 7 Opens and been on the PGA for 6 or 7 years. To say the least, Kelly and Clark were ready for him to shut up about Beth-Page.
It's quite on the bus without the girls, but it sure is clean.
Kenneth is not doing so well, he has an infection in his foot and is a lot of pain. Not sure if the infection is in the tissue or bone, hopefully he won't lose his big toe. He will be mad he can not come to the Tx Open but he needs to heal.

Beaver Lake

We had a nice surprise, Kenneth and Shirley came to Arkansas to watch Kelly and visit. They got a room at the Beaver Lake lodge up the street from us. It is pretty nice, beautiful view of the lake from their room. We have been using the pool there, which is really nice because the lake is hot at the swimming area. Reagan spent the night with them last night and lost one of her front top teeth, which was hanging on by a thread. the other front tooth is hanging on as well but hasn't fallen out yet, maybe tomorrow. Shirley watched the girls and I got to watch Kelly play. He played really well except for a par three he doubled. He plugged it in a bunker and couldn't hit it out hard or it would fly out and go into the lake so he hit it and it didn't make it out of the bunker, his boogie put missed going in by an inch (literally). that one hole took the wind out of our sails.
We had to move camping spots because during the weekend our 50 amp spot was reserved. We moved to a 30 amp spot with no water. our ac kicks off during the day when the plug gets hot. i went to see who got our 50 amp spot. it is campers in a small trailer and their buddies camping in a tent, took the other 50 amp. that is so wrong. There is a chance of rain tomorrow, I hope it doesn't cause a rain delay. I'm ready to get out of here and head home even if it's only for a little while.

were in Arkansas

Here is what Kelly's finger looks like 2 days later. He soaked it in Epsom Salt tonite . It still hurts him and throbs. Hopefully it won't effect his playing too much.









Beaver Lake in Rogers

hurt finger

We are in Springfield staying in front of Ranny and Marcia's house. We had a bunch of crap happen the other night. Our RV door look was broken and I couldn't open the door as Dasher is hunched down with diarrhea, so he shit in the floor. I had to get pliers to open the door. He continued to be "sick" all night. I woke to the smell of shit at 6 am and began cleaning. Daddy and Kay came by to say good-bye. Kenneth came to take us to breakfast and sat down to have some coffee while Kelly was working on the door lock. Kell went to open the bin outside for his tools, but Riley's bike was in the way. As he was trying to move her bike, the bin door slammed down on Kelly's finger (right hand index). It was bleeding profusly and he soaked it in ice. His nail is black and it continues to throb, the cut is ugly. He can't do anything with that finger at all. We came to Ranny's to hangout and relax. The girls got to take a bath in a tub. I went to the store and rented a carpet steam cleaner. i spent the morning cleaning the rv carpet and the area rugs. badly needed, especially after the sick dog. Its nice that we have a yard here for the dogs and the girls ar running around the house while the carpet dries. Ranny, Kelly and I tried to drink all the red wine in Springfield last night, we gave in around 3. We are all chillin on the couch watching The Open and just had cheese burgers so we are feeling better. Kelly wants to go to Bass Pro shops later for his father's day, then maybe eat some sushi. Going to head to Arkansas tomorrow around Beaver Lake to get ready for next week.

So I went to watch Kelly play today. It was hot as hell, 90+ degrees and at least 70% humidity. the golf was not so great, but it was my first time to get to watch him play this year. A little sunburned and very tired. Our girls got to play and swim with their friends. Our friend Ranny came down from Springfield to watch, it;s always good to see him. We may go stay in Springfield and visit with them some more or we may go ahead and head to the next place, Rogers Arkansas, and relax at Bear Lake. It is his choice since it is fathers day sunday. We all just went to eat Mexican food, it was weird, but we were hungry and it was better than grilling steaks in the heat.
Anyone ever had basil or oregano in their hot sauce? The owner looked likeMr. Miagi from Karate Kid but with long hair, we called him Juan Chung. Kelly and Kenneth are going to have some father son bonding at one of the casinos in a little bit and I am going to have some me time as I saw logs.

We went to Joplin MO yesterday for lunch. Kelly played in the pro-am with a guy who owned a BBQ restaurant and he gave Kel a card so we could come eat for free, so we did. It was good, great ribs. Then we stopped at a new liquor store Macdoodles. They had a tasting bar, my kind of shopping. There was a guy behind the bar making us little cups of everything. We bought some of our favorite wine, Frontera blend 6 big btls for $40. They had beers Kel never heard of, he was like a kid in a candy store. Kenneth wasn't much for shopping there and my Dad called while we were there to let us know he was almost to our RV park, so we wrapped things up and headed back. Some of Kelly's golf buddies stopped by and hung out for some beers. One of them Jeff Hill, just got acceppted to the next Big Break show on the Golf ch. Our other friend Zoran called to tell me his wife Robin and their girls Harper and Hailey were here too. The girls couldn't wait to see each other, so they came by after theyir dinner. Riley was ready to see a friend. She was crying yesterday about how she liked being with Daddy and we could swim at some RV parks but (crying started) there was no day care with friends. She lives for hanging out with friends (don't know where she gets that) and so far she hadn't seen one friend all summer. So when Harper and Hailey showed up they were all elatted. Robin offered to watch all the girls and let them swim at the hotel while I watch Kelly play. Not sure if I'm going to do that or play with them. Kelly is 2 over and he is already telling me that the course doesn't look right to him and you need your driver and irons to play this course and he isn't hitting either very well and and and. He is a piece of work, if I could kick his ass I would, he drives me nuts with his attitude. Y'all know him. We'll see what the day will bring, he tees off at 12 something. I'm going to make him a big breakfast to start his day with.