With temps in the low 30's this morning, we started out our day in jeans and long sleeved shirts. The strong winds of yesterday departed overnight, so it was much nicer walking this morning.

We are getting back into our Fort Clark routine. Monday is wood carvers, so after eating breakfast, John gathered up his tools and headed out to do some carving--his first project is another elf face. When he was done with carving, he headed to the post office to pick up some mail and then made a stop at the fort office to pay a tax bill. While John was gone, I changed the bed linens and started some laundry. The last time I did some was a couple of days before we left home. There was quite a pile of dirty clothes to get clean. I also drug out the Christmas decorations and started putting some of them out in the kitchen area.

Following lunch, we headed down to the Par 3 course to play some golf. I can see some improvement in my game over last year. I even chipped the ball in for par on the second hole. It warmed up this afternoon, so we had to trade in our jeans for shorts before hitting the course.

We didn't remove the pin and my ball got
caught between the pin and edge of hole for par.
Red arrow pointing to ball

John got some new clubs and has been trying them out. He has had some good shots and some not so good. He just needs to keep playing and get use to them.

John practicing his putting


A beautiful day for golf. You can see the trees
on the course are beginning to turn

When we returned home from golf, John worked outside raking up some dead branches and leaves in the yard. While he was working outside we had a few more visitors stopping by to chat.
The evening was quiet--just watched some football and did some reading. For those who asked, there is nothing new about the mouse. The traps in the car remain untouched and we haven't seen any in the house. I think he realized it was warm outside and decided to take his chances in the outside world. Time will tell if I'm correct.