Well, while I seem to be sick for three weeks straight (this didn't happen before I had kids...) life continues to look up in other ways. Remember the sidewalk they tore up to make a wider one? (of course you don't) Well, it's all apart of the trail expansion that Denton is doing and it includes installing the path behind my house. Like RIGHT behind my house. So instead of winding around neighborhood roads and dealing with traffic and one really narrow backroad with a blind turn to get out of my neghborhood, I can go right behind my house and jump on the trail that also leads to one of my main north bound routes.

Also, I talked about how extravagant it seemed to rip up a perfectly good sidewalk, but I have a friend on the parks and rec board who I happened to see yesterday afternoon and mentioned a meeting he was going to tonight. So he sent me the agenda from the meeting and it turns out they did a 1.8 million dollar project with a state grant where they only had to come up with about 400K of Denton's money. Pretty sweet deal.

Philly has a lively disc golf scene. This place is near my house, open to the public and free:


sedgleywoods.com | The official Sedgley Woods website.

And a big reason for that is a resistance to raising taxes. Gas taxes haven't been raised since 1993. Adjusted for inflation and average fuel economy gains, the federal gas tax should be about 3 times what it currently is.

We can't object to paying taxes, and user fees, then ***** about the lack of money spent on infrastructure.

For the record, my local park district has a couple very nice courses and there are no fees.

Absolutely.

To be clear, the state park entrance fees in New York are for driving your car into the park. That fee varies from site to site, but is said to be $10 or less. There is not a fee associated with playing disc golf.

Speaking of discs...There is a medium sized sweet potato pie staring me in the face every time I open the frig. I am trying to be strong but it keeps saying "Eat Me!"

There is no such thing as a medium-sized sweet potato pie. There are only too small and proper.

You people eat too much.

I've been told that before.

Thanks for clarifying.

Is that that Hawaiian volcano?

Any pie in my frig is too big. I already ate the leftover cupcake last night.

There is a course in Northern Michigan that goes up the side of a former ski hill that is quite challenging;

https://www.discgolfscene.com/course...n_Area/Hole_18

Beautiful views too. The park also has mountain bike trails and ice skating in winter. All at no charge.

Sweet potato pie is easy for me to resist.

On cue...
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I've cycled near a bunch of courses. There's on in Andy Brown park in Coppell that's hardly ever used (if it's even still there after the construction), and a big, popular one in the middle of Carrollton. I can't remember the name of the parks or trails, but there were always lots of people playing it there.

I'm doing my part.

I'm not okay with paying fees to get on a disc golf course. And I would probably not have returned to it if there were fees associated with playing on said greens. The appeal is showing up nearly anytime there's daylight, and not dealing with oversight or some kind of overseer and ruleset other than what you've agreed upon as friends to play by etc. Biggest problem wouldn't be the $$ it would be the accessibility. Now there's hours to follow and someone to collect your money that's not going to be there at all hours of the day.

They're minimally up-kept as far as I can tell. I think there's enough people involved that you could even have folks volunteer to fix the fields up.

How I enjoyed playing this I figure I would actually really like golf. But I will not golf. I'm not sure what course fees are around here but it's an equipment intensive sport and it used to be $50-$75/ per go up North. Yea, I could knock out a bag of old clubs for $25 on craigslist, but I'd still be looking at a fee every-time.

I've seen Bear Creek, and then there's one that's like 3 miles from my place that's just a super small basic park. Gotta check out the Carrollton one soon.

There's one just south of my house that seems to be pretty popular. North Lakes Park in Denton. I don't like disc golf, but you could always hit me up for a beer and burger afterwards. :lol:

Haha, yall don't know me very well.


Other than cycling shoes, new shoes are one of the things in life that I am least likely to be excited by.

You could join the Country CLUB.

I had that problem last night with an apple-cranberry streusel.







I failed.
(But it was pretty good, for store-bought crust.)