So far the course has had a lot of use, the last time I was there was 4 golfers at almost every hole. When I can I will post some pictures of the course. For now thou, you can visit Vancouver Clark Disc Golf, and read the latest info about what is happing with the course.

At the fair we first went to the dog show arena. My mother in law is involved in the 4-h with Josephine County. My daughter really enjoys looking at the dogs and animals. After lunch, we went over to the Great American Duck Race, were Abby and I raced a duck. While we were just given our duck to race, my duck wanted to get away from me, in doing so, I must have squeezed the pooh out of it and onto my shirt. I didn’t know that I had any poop on me until my wife seen it, just before I was about give her a kiss after the race. Anyway, Abby had a lot of fun, our duck came into 2nd place.

After the race we caught the end of a children show with Chinese Circus, kids mind you, doing amazing things, from bending, flipping, climbing a banner like a rope and doing wonderful tricks with it while climbing and falling. I would post pictures, but we were not allowed to take any.

We ended up spending the whole day looking at different things from shows, to art work done by kids in 4-h. Some of the things that some of these kids did were amazing, like welding from scratch working haduralic dumping beds to animal feeders.

To really see all that this fair had to offer I needed to have at least 2 days to visit it.

I found this video on youtube and I felt that I needed to let everyone interested in disc golf to see it.

Over the past few months, a lot has happened. The house next door is going to be up for sale, and my mother in law is trying to buy it. We are going to help all we can to have that happen. Right now it looks like it could happen as long as she can get a loan to get the ball rolling.

Easter has come and gone, and my family helped out with the Good Friday service, and the Easter Egg hunt at Hough Elementary school. I never helped cook so many hot dogs before.

I took part in my very first PDGA sanctioned Disc Golf tournament in Estacada, OR at Milo Mciver State Park. It is normally a 27 hole course, but for tournaments they make it into a 36 hole course. My first round was 85 on the west side of the course, and 82 on the east side. Both the east and the west courses were a par 60. I started out trying to hard, I was not driving very accurately, and my putting was not bad with in 15 feet of the basket. I’m not saying that I drive very accurate to start with, but as far as the way I currently drive, I could have done better. Right now I’m trying to learn how to throw forehand, I’m driving backhand right now, and I want to improve my game.

So thats my first tourney in as brief a description as I can make it.

Till next time

Yesterday, as my wife and I were out cleaning up some of the leaves that have piled up around the house and general cleaning up, the owner of the house next door was helping the people finish moving stuff out. He came over to us and asked if we knew the owner of our house. Of course we said that we owned it, and we started talking about the view from our house, and some other small talk.

We then asked him if he was going to sell the house, and he said well he was thinking about it, it is about 696 sq ft, 2 bedroom, 1 bath house. A perfect house for my mother-in-law to live in when she moves up here. If things work out, we may be able to buy the house. It needs some work, things need to be updated, such as heat, carpets and such.

Last month, my very good friend, Jason Ackerman, came back to Vancouver for a visit. He moved to Denver area, and came back home for the holidays. I didn’t get to visit with him all that much do to my work schedule and all the people he needed to visit. Some of our friends threw a party or gathering for his family. For those that knows him, there was a poker game that I really wanted to go to. I didn’t get to make it, since I had to be at work at 5:30 in the morning the next day. Poker and Jason always seems to come to mind when he comes home, funny how that works. His family also came over for a chili feed with our old small group at my house. Again I was not able to be there for the whole dinner, due to my schedule. So my advice when your friends comes home for a visit take time off. With that having been said, his visit home seemed short. My family needs to make a trip to Denver.

My job is going well, I’ve just got off my 6 month probation. I get to start to be a little sterner to the youth that ride the bus, of course I’ll always say please.

As far as disc golf, I haven’t really been able to play that much. There has been a few tournaments that Stumptown DG has put on. The tournaments have taken place on the weekend, and my days off are during the week. Although with the new bid at work, I should be able to have the weekend off. I hope to be able to participate in a tournament.

Every time I think I’m making the right choices, and my team does well, my opponent’s team does just a little better, or I get slaughtered. In any case I’m having fun, and I’m looking forward to playing again next year.

In the past month I have  been very busy. I participated in a disc golf tournament put on by church,  Compass Church, and my very good friend, Steve Carson. I placed in the top ten, not bad for me, since I’ve never really took part in tournament play before. It was a lot of fun, I brought my son out for the final day of the 5 week event. The 2 courses that we played at were WSU Vancouver, and Glenwood DGC, all here in Clark County.

Vancouver Clark Disc Golf is working on getting a public course here in Vancouver, WA. The park that Vancouver Park and Rec is looking at is Leverich Park, just off I-5 and ST 500, off 39th ST. In December, we are having a temp course laid out at the park. You can find out more info at vcdg.org.

I’ll post more later.

For my first time through Greenway I was 6 over par. Not bad in my book for never playing the course before. My second time through I was 4 over, and I lost my new Z surge, with Rose City Open Tournament stamp on it, in the brambles on the left side of the 4th fairway. I was just learning how to use this overstable disc. I was hoping to release it with an anhyzer but it went flat and high and right into the bramble.

If you every get a chance to get out to Beaverton and want to play a great fun course, check out Greenway. There was posting for a free tournament on Sept 22nd there. I’m hoping to get out there and enter. It all depends on my schedual at work.

I also think that Stumptown needs to get out there and put up some signs.

Till next time.