I was always a big fan of golf. I even attempted to caddy when I was young. I carried bags for my two uncles and I believe that my mother was behind having them discourage me. Big time.
    I was 62 years old before a friend encouraged me to get out on the golf course. She could not understand how I could be glued to the games on TV all weekend but had never played the game.

At Valley Forge Golf Course

    Her son was a golfer and offered to take me on the golf course. I went to the driving rage to test my ability to swing a club. My first day on the course, I was hooked on the game.

    I knew I could only get better. During the Philadelphia winters I would tag along with my friend when she traveled on business to warmer climates. She played golf but later confessed she hated it and only wanted to keep me company.
    We golfed when in Las Vegas and golfed several times in Florida but it was the golf vacations in Arizona that I grew to love and looked forward to the most.
    A couple of times I went to Arizona with her son to golf. He was looking to buy a home there and we played several courses around the Phoenix area including Painted Mountain, Canyon Lakes, The 500 Club and the San Marcos Golf Course that dated back to 1914.
    My theory that "I could only get better," well, that never happened. I did move to Arizona and I did meet a great lady that truly enjoyed the game as much as I did. We are growing old together while enjoying our golf, our dancing and our travels.
    But, as they say, "One good thing about getting old is that you realize you're never going to be good at golf!"

    One of the highlights of my life were the weekends Bob, Joe and I went off for a weekend of camping, fishing and canoeing.
    Bob is an avid outsdoorsman and fisherman so he was always right at home in the middle of the woods next to a trout stream. Well, actually any stream.
    Eventually our camping trips became an annual event centered around Father's Day. Neither Joe or I were very good fishermen but Bob was an expert. He always managed to catch enough for dinner and he had the outdoor cooking-over-an-open-fire recipes to go along with his fishing skills.
    In addition to days of fishing we always did a day of canoeing. One canoe trip was scheduled solely because the streams were high making for some great rapids.
    We were three in a canoe on that trip with me steering from the back.
    At one point the rapids took

Camping With My Sons

control of the canoe throwing us to the left bank. A hugh tree had fallen and extended out over the stream at a low, perhaps 10 degree, angle.
    The water was swift and there was no option but to lay as flat as possible in the canoe. As we went rocketing under the tree I lost my hat. Thankfully we all survived unscathed with a new respect for force of the rapids.
    The tarp over our campsite! Well, that was Bob's idea and greatly appreciated when it rained.

    I began playing English darts about 1974 in Centerville, Ohio and even became skilled enough to become a tournament player. Later I played for the South Jersey English Dart League were I served as president for six years.
    There is a lot of evidence that the game of darts originated among soldiers throwing cut arrows or cross bow bolts at the bottom of a barrel.
    Today, Darts is a game whereby a player throws three darts per visit to the board. However, English Darts and American Darts are remakably different with different darts, different boards and different games.
    An English Dart has four parts: The point, the barrel, the shaft and the flight. The choice of barrel, shaft, and flight will depend a great deal on the individual player's throwing style.
    An American Dart is simply a wooden barrel with a metal tip bored into the end and turkey-feather flights glued into place.
    English Dart Boards are made of compressed sisal fibres with a double bull's-eye at the center. The fibres separate when the dart enters doing little or no damage to the board.
    American Dart Boards are made of wood with a single bull's-eye at the center.
    Both boards have sectors with numbers 1 through 20 arranged the same and with the number 20 at the top. Both boards have a single scoring area, a double ring, a triple ring and a bullseye. A dart in the double or triple ring counts double or triple the sector score. But the boards' similarities end there.
    An English dart board has at its

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Three Triple 20's Scores 180 Points

center a red double bull's-eye that scores 50 points surrounded by a green bull's-eye that scores 25 points. The scoring area of the board extends from the center bull's-eye, or cork, to an outer double ring. A triple ring is halfway between the bull's-eye and the double ring.
    An American dart board has a red bull's-eye at its center. The single score sectors extend beyond the bull's-eye to a red double ring and the uncolored triple ring. The large blue ring is not part of the scoring area.
    The standard English game has the goal of reducing a fixed score, either 601, 501 or 301, to zero. The players take turns shooting three darts. The throw that reduces a player's score to zero must occur on the outer double ring. If the player's score goes below zero, it is a "bust" and the score is reset to the previous value and the remainder of the turn is forfeited.
    The standard American game is Baseball. Players begin with inning number one and continue in order until they have shot nine innings. They take turns shooting three darts for each inning. The highest score wins.

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