Well we're into week 14 already this season. Been busy and haven't had a chance to update the blog till now.

 Started out right around where I left off last year, low 200's. Being the President and running the league always takes a toll the first month of bowling for me. Running around answering questions and trying to get the league off are big distractions. In addition to the normal beginning of the year stuff we lost 4 teams this year and several others were short bowlers so trying to get additional bowlers and to call the teams that quit took up a lot of time and energy. My son also started playing highschool football this year which caused me to miss a couple of weeks and be late for a couple others so I really couldn't get into the swing of things until the last month.

November started with a bang. I haven't had a 700 yet (usually good for 3 or 4 a year) but I haven't been under 200 for 4 consecutive weeks. Raised the average to 210 with a 696 last week. Needed a strike in the 10th of the last game and left a ringing ten pin, converted the spare and left another ringing 10 in the fill ball for a 204. Just could not carry that game. Started with a 257 and 235 for the second game. Also won the clean game pot two weeks in a row.

I bowled in the house's annual 9 pin no tap tournament on Thanksgiving morning. Haven't bowled this in a couple of years as I normally do pretty bad. Bowl 34and take the best 3 games, they pay out the top 8 spots. I started with a natural turkey then left a ten pin in the fourth, then had the next 8 (natural) for a 300. Got 5 bucks for that. Second game I started with an 8 count, fast 8 I call it, the 47. converted the spare and ended up with a 225. I had 2 9 counts that game the rest were strikes or 8 counts. We were having problems with the lanes not scoring properly (give me paper and pencil any day over these electronic things!) so we ended up moving half way through the game so it took a couple of shots to get used to the new lanes.  The third game started out like the first game. I had 1 ten pin and the rest natural through 9 frames, looking for a second 300 I left it out to far to the right and it never came back and left the 1 2 10, of course I couldn't make the spare for a 266.

Started the fourth game out back in the zone and had the first 9 again, with only 2 9 counts the rest natural. Why can't I bowl like this in league I thought to myself!?!  Again the 10th frame bit me in the as*. Same as the previous game, threw it out and didn't come back. Left the 1 3 9 and couldn't convert for 265.

 That gave me 300 266 265 for an 831, 5 pins handicap = 836. Ended in in 6th place. 911 won the tourny. Even though I was close with 3 300s I couldn't have won even if I had shot 900. Damn handicap!

 Oh well hopefully I can continue the hot bowling when we get back out there on Thursday night.

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