Owen Jay Curtright

My friends from my first year of college, Becky and Daniel, finally had their (first) kid! Here's a picture they sent me.

Stuff

I went home this weekend, so the first two pictures are my dogs, Doofus the Westie and Todd the Beagle. Doofus is destroying a nerf football (you can almost hear it scream). Todd is bravely defending the homeland against chipmunks. Evidently, this involves sitting around in the sun and waiting for a chipmunk to randomly run into his mouth. I also spent last night tying. I'm always looking for bass patterns that don't take 45 minutes of spinning deer hair to tie. This is kind of a souped up bugger. Chartruese everything, on a Daiichi 1750 #6 hook, a 1/4 ounce conehead, and rubber legs every 1/3 of the hook shank, and .010 lead underbelly. Threw in some chartruese Krystal Flash on the tail. I think the #6 hook is too small (still thinking in trout terms), but we'll try them this weekend.

Daily Stuff

A couple from today's work. Kids putting on a skit about recycling, and preparations for the county fair.

LPGA 2

Today was the last day at the 2007 LPGA NW Arkansas Championship. A disappointing day. There was a lot of rain throughout the weekend, and it ended up that the whole thing got cancelled. But here’s the thing. Everyone got through 18 holes by about 9:30 this morning. There needs to be 36 holes played in order to the event to be counted. However, the officials called it this morning, citing a strong possibility of rain in the afternoon. But, low and behold, it is now about 7:45 pm, and the whole day has been just beautiful. Just enough clouds to provide shade, a slight breeze…in fact, I was depressed when I had to go inside to file photos. I think there are some conspiracy theories floating around, though. Stacy Lewis was an amateur playing in the tournament (she plays for UA, in the Razorback hat below), and was leading when the event was called, and I think some are saying it was because the LPGA officials didn’t want an amateur winning the event.

These photos are from the last couple of days.

Poodle

Mmm...squirrel

Pro-Am

A few features from the Pro-Am at the LPGA NW Arkansas Championship in Rogers. I'll post more, including actual action, to The Morning News blog when I get done tomorrow.

UA Season Opener

First football game I've ever shot at a more advanced level than high school, and the second game I've shot at all in about two years. Photos are poorly toned, I know. But it's late, and I'm tired.