Day 13

Ah retirement. I can't even manage to make a blog entry every day. I thought about it last night, but I just didn't get around to it. I'll write this as if I was doing it last evening.

Our competition starts tomorrow (Thursday). Today we shot the practice course. It was about the same as last year. There were a couple of targets that I had problems with. One I never hit at all despite shooting at least 10 pairs. Overall I shot it about as well as I did last year.

Apparently the K cup targets are a lot harder than last year. Wendell Cherry only shot a 79. High score was some kid (a sub junior) with an 89. We shoot the K cup tomorrow at 10:00. It's supposed to rain heavily tomorrow afternoon while we are shooting the main. Oh well.

Each year they have a contest where you go around to different vendors and get their initials on a sheet of paper. After visiting 24 vendors you turn in the sheet of paper. That enters you in a drawing that they hold on Friday night. We got our sheets filled in. Now all we have to do is win.

I ordered a new set of shooting glasses from Ranger. I really like a couple of the tints that they have. The glasses are supposed to be here on Friday. Because the glasses use tinted clip ons, the glasses without a clip on will make a good second pair of glasses. The special show price was another reason to buy them. They are going to cost less than a normal pair of glasses.

The rest of the group showed up today - Dan & Patsy, Gerry, Kim & Justin, Don, and Gary. We went to Rudy's for dinner. Unfortunately, no one told Rudy's that the Nationals were going on. There was a long line and by the time we got to the front they ran out of food.