Now N Then

To the starting gate

There were about 23 of us from the FamCamp at Ebro, the local dog track. Military gets in free. Three and a half hours of racing. We started the day at the Panama Cafe for breakfast, followed by a visit to the winery, the track and then Boon Docks for dinner. More on the rest of the day later.

Ebro

At the outdoor Special Operations Aircraft displays.

Pave Low MH-53

Roy is a high 70’s low 80’s golfer who hits a long ball. Once a year I outdrive him.

I outdrove Roy

The gator is back on the 7th hole

The upstairs of the Grill is a museum. Kind of like our basement.

Before cell phones.

Portable typewriter. It’s kind of like a laptop except all it does is type. No memory. No Calculations. No pictures. And you needed copy sets and if you made a Typo then you had to white out the typo on each copy and retype. In the military you could only make 7 mistakes (I think) per page. Any more and you had to retype the page.

Before CD’s and Ipod’s. The song “I’m looking over a four leaf clover” predated the Grateful Dead.

Saturday found us at the Scottish Festival at Grace Church in Panama City. Tabor throwing, Hay Pitching and bagpipes.

Tabor

Hay Pitching over the high bar

McGuires Pub Band

McGuires Pub Band

Hulburt Field Air Force Base is home of the Air Force Special Operations Command. We played the Gator Lakes Golf Course on Base last Wednesday. Played well and scored well but were disappointed that none of the many alligators that we had seen on previous visits there were around(or at least that we could see)

Just off one of the fairways was an old burned out plane (I think a C-130) that we assumed was used for fire training.

On Wednesday we went up to Ft Walton to play golf at Hurlbert AFB and to have dinner with Leo and Lois. We had a coupon for a bottle of wine and one two for one dinner so the four of us got $47 off dinner. I love a deal.

Inside the grill. Upstairs was a museum(more later)

Last Thursday wight of us had dinner at Rodeo’s which had a Bluegrass band for 3 hours during dinner. And they do not kick you out after dinner so we got there at 5 PM and stayed until 8PM. Good stuff.

 In 7 years we had never seen gators in this spot behind the 8th tee although we had heard that a gator had lived there years ago. On Sunday we saw this guy.