I went to play golf

"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle) 08/29/2018 at 16:55 • Filed to: None

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but I don’t play golf. luckily the course was right beside the Scottsdale airport. Lots of low flying small aircraft to gawk at.

self: “ take a video of that plane”
self: * takes a series of photos*

Ash78, voting early and often > MonkeePuzzle 08/29/2018 at 17:11

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“Did you survive 18 holes?”

“Yep, we made it!”

“What did you shoot?”

“Two javelinas, a turkey vulture that was trying to eat Gary, and eventually Gary.”

/how I imagine summer golf in PHX

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > MonkeePuzzle 08/29/2018 at 17:14

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Honestly, it looks cooler.

ttyymmnn > MonkeePuzzle 08/29/2018 at 18:21

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“Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.”

— Harry Leon Wilson

You were better off watching airplanes. 

ttyymmnn > MonkeePuzzle 08/29/2018 at 18:21

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“Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.”

— Harry Leon Wilson

You were better off watching airplanes. 

DipodomysDeserti > MonkeePuzzle 08/29/2018 at 22:58

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A plane just crashed into that course in April.

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often 08/29/2018 at 23:01

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Coyotes love golf courses. Grew up near one and there were always coyotes stalking around at night.

The Scottsdalians have been complaining about seeing coyotes everywhere. They’re afraid they’re going to eat their little purse dogs. Should probably stop putting golf courses in the middle of the desert.

DipodomysDeserti > ttyymmnn 08/29/2018 at 23:02

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“Stop building golf courses in the desert, morons.”

-Skychismo

Ash78, voting early and often > DipodomysDeserti 08/29/2018 at 23:07

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As a quasi-environmentalist, I think golf courses in the desert are ridiculous. If you’re going to do them, why not make them more “natural” — like xeriscaped using local vegetation? Not pretending to be a lush green course from the east, or the west coast.

Nothing like some jumping cholla in the rough to keep the game moving. I’ll just call that one lost and take the drop ball and the one-stroke penalty.

Ash78, voting early and often > DipodomysDeserti 08/29/2018 at 23:10

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Around here, it’s the redtail hawks that are displaced by golf, even though we do get invasive coyotes in the outlying mountainous areas.

I think the hawks love it. We clear the brush for them, it makes their hunting easier :D

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often 08/29/2018 at 23:21

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We have a lot of redtails here as well. They’re all over the valley. I have two that live on the end of my street (in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve). They’ll come and sit in my backyard sometimes and eyeball my chickens. When you drive around Phoenix during the day you can spot redtails grouped up in various areas. We have a lot of Harris’s hawks too, but they usually stick to the more remote mountains around the valley.

I’ve only ever owned pitbulls, so I’ve never had to worry about coyotes or hawks eating my dogs.

Ash78, voting early and often > DipodomysDeserti 08/30/2018 at 00:18

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I love redtails...they’re just so adaptive and useful.

Here’s a quick couple shots from a few  weeks ago at our first scout meeting of the season. The local raptor rehab people brought some owls, a one-winged falcon, and this hawk (blind in one eye). They say she could still identify words in a phone book from 100 yards.

DipodomysDeserti > Ash78, voting early and often 08/30/2018 at 00:58

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One of the redtails on my street kept hanging around our house the week my first daughter was born. Then I got buzzed by one while driving home the day she was born. Ended up giving her the middle name Chetan which is Lakota for hawk.

Such awesome, ancient creatures.

pip bip - choose Corrour > MonkeePuzzle 08/30/2018 at 04:47

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MonkeePuzzle > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/30/2018 at 09:13

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such a great movie!