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So this past weekend I made the annual trip back to NY to celebrate my birthday with the family.  Some of the highlights of the weekend were the annual father-son golf scramble at Big Oak and the Timber Creek fishing tournament.

  • Saturday (Timber Creek Fishing Tournament)  - The tournament was broken into four categories Biggest Bass, Biggest Perch, Most Weight of 5 Perch - Largest Perch, Most Weight of 5 Bass - Largest Bass.  I am happy to report that I ended up catching a 66+ oz. (4+ lbs) bass for our team to win the biggest bass of the tournament.  The next closest bass was within roughly 1oz. difference so we barely squeaked by with the win.

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  • Sunday (Big Oak Golf Scramble)  - We (My dad and I) played our typical horrible once a year golf game and had a blast with my uncle (Ron) and my cousin (Nate).  This marked my third year in a row and think it was the first tournament that I made it through the day with only having just a few beers, but this was severely canceled out when the birthday shots (prairie fires of course) were broke out to celebrate the big 25.  This year we seemed to come away with a large number of the raffle wins and walked away with the following items which also included 18 holes of golf, a steak and clam dinner and lunch on the turn for only $75 bucks.
    • One folding camp chair (a small little tripod)
    • One umbrella (works perfect for my golf bag)
    • A horse statue? (which was later exchanged for a heavy duty igloo cooler)
    • Three bottles of wine
    • Branded shirts, hats and other clothing
    • A life-size toy fire truck (I’m sure this will be under the tree at Christmas time for little Ben)
    • Three pack of Top Flight 2000XL golf balls (I lost more than three during the 18 holes ;) )

I also had the pleasure of meeting up with a few other family members that I hadn’t seen in a while to celebrate my birthday and saw my sisters new apartment. However, I did miss the chance to do a guys night out because I got some crazy throat sickness that resulted in having to go to an urgent care center.  I’m only now starting to feel better after about two-three days of Z-pack treatment, but I’m hoping to have the sickness cured soon as I’m slated to hit up a corn maze with the girly and some friends this weekend.