kevin's my new bowling name

last night i had to make a trip to clay center (15-20 minute drive) to snap a couple of pictures for a story this week. the manager of the golf course there is trying to get people together to play wii golf and/or bowling during the winter months to a) get people to the facility and b) have some fun. kind of a cool idea, unfortunately there were only two people other than her in attendance last night. she said if enough people end up coming out, she'd like to start a league and keep track of handicaps and stats. being at the course made me excited to try out the new courses around here come spring.

in honor of them humoring me and playing a few games of wii bowling so i could get a couple pictures to accompany the story, i decided to check out sutton's bowling alley, clay bowl. it's a really small place, with a little bar and six lanes. saturday night is open bowl and i figured that with only six lanes and nothing else to do in town that it might be crowded and i'd have no chance to get on, but it was really not the case. there were some older guys and gals there playing poker and some others bowling. i sat at the bar and had a michelob amber bach and talked with the owners, kelly and dave. they had their niece and nephew helping them, high-school age danielle and trey, respectively. i decided to bowl a game, and trey joined me. he's got the spin down, whereas i'm just straight on, but we bowled about the same. at first i was struggling, so i decided i needed a change of ball. i found a lighter one (yeah, i'm weak..) that fit my fingers perfectly and had the name "kevin" on it. and after i started using kevin, i found my form. so i've got my new ball and, perhaps my new bowling alias.

after bowling two games, i sat at the bar for another beer with a few guys who got knocked out of the poker game. one guy, kenny, had some great stories. one involved his girlfriend falling off of the tree stand while hunting and breaking her back and the surgeries and complications following (she's fine, now..). another was him falling while working on a house and breaking his femur and his hip in the freezing cold about 3 miles from the hospital and not getting to the hospital until 3 hours later, due to incompetent emergency personnel. i seriously hope nothing bad happens so i don't have to potentially deal with that.. (mom, don't worry.)


a good night, though. and kelly told me the bowling was on the house because i was new. so cool of them. they took my number in case they need a sub during league play or for card games. so i've found somewhere else to hang out.