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.

Okay, so it's been awhile. Kelly missed the Monday qualifier in Ft Smith after he hit it over the green on 18 and out of bounds. We are in beautiful Miami OK. We have moved to our third spot. First one was free beside a casino (looked like a bingo hall, metal shed ) in a field kind of scary and Kel didn't want to leave us there. Second place was Twin Bridges state park, beautiful, shade trees to keep RV cooler and a nice playground. The pit fall was they only have 30amp to plug into and we need 50amp. We blew the fuse at least 15 times and needed to move. We are now in a mobile home/RV park. There are people who live in trailers, 5th wheels and rv's smaller than ours. The one across the street had a 8yr old girl for my girls to play with. She lives in a small rv w/ her grandparents,her mom (scary toothless butch) and siblings. Sad. Her mom won't take her training wheels off and she is not allowed to leave her yard. She was not allowed to play after lunch and all the curtains were drawn shut. She did have fun w/ my girls for about an hour and they took her a bottled water and an ice pop. Maybe she can play again today. We are across from the laundry room so that helped since I had a week and a half of laundry to do. We didn't get hooked up to power until 3pm yesterday so the RV was hot again. Kenneth showed up and we booked him at the hotel right next door, he took the girls over there to swim and cool off while I finished the laundry and cleaning. We picked Kelly up after his pro-am and went to dinner. My dad and Kay should be here today and staying here in their RV.
It will be nice to see our dads for fathers day.

It's Sunday and a storm blew in this morning so tee times were delayed. Instead of 9 Kelly teed off at noon. We have to be in Ft. Smith AR tomorrow for a 9am tee time for a nationwide Monday qualifier. I hope he gets in. As of this morning Kelly was 5 shots out of the lead. The Hooters tour doesn't update regularly as I'm sure you all know, so not sure how he is doing now. We are going to head up there in a little while and see how he is doing. We went to a WalMart yesterday and saw some regular people, it was a relief. Dean came over for steaks last night. He tells some good stories. Besides being from S. Africa and living near an animal reserve, he has played with Tiger. Once was at the Nelson. It's good to see old friends. If anybody has Skype and a camera give us a call-grunydad on Skype. The girls and I are going to the outlet mall before we go check on Kel.

Thurs. Kelly had a 1 pm tee time, so we dropped him off at the course so we could have the car. We went to a cute little Pizza place, then to the River Park (pictured) then to Piggly Wiggly for groceries. Went back to RV to put groceries up and let dogs out, then back to the course to wait on Kelly. One golfer that I am friends with is here, Dean Pappas. He has been around since the 90's and he or his brother Brendon are usually playing were Kelly is, they played the Lone Star Tour with Kel when we were dating. We partied with Brendon in 07 when he got his PGA card. They are great S. African guys. Dean is the one that introduced me to a Catimba, half red wine and half diet coke on ice. Don't knock it til you try it. Very refreshing.
Dean played in the group behind Kelly, so we waited for him and all went in for a Catimba and to visit. We came back to a almost chilly RV and I made spaghetti for Riley and Kelly, Reagan and I had the noodles with diced chix and zucchini-very good if I do say so myself. Kelly and Riley got a couple of loads of laundry done while I cooked. We went to bed early since he had a early tee time this morning. He should be home in a couple of hours. Not sure what we will do tonight.