Champion Again

Here's Aimee with yet another championship trophy to add to her collection.

This was a very successful season for Aimee and her teams.  Her Monday night team won the championship for their league. Every player on the team gets a t-shirt for being on the winning team. One time Aimee counted up how many different t-shirts she had won and it was well over thirty.

Her Thursday night team won the playoffs and championship for their league. I also play on this team so we both picked up a shirt for that one. It's the same shirt for each league.

Yesterday her Sunday morning team wrapped up an undefeated season and won the championship without needing to win any playoff games. That meant yet another shirt.  Good thing both Lars and Mims are having a birthday this week. Each just got himself a new t-shirt.

Aimee also plays on a Sunday afternoon team in Burbank and that league wraps their season in two weeks. That team is also in first place and will be playing for a championship. If they win it will be a different t-shirt because it's a different city league.

The trophies go home with the manager of each team. That's good because we would never have room for all of that hardware.

Tee Time!

 

Here's Aimee refining her swing at the home of Ben Hogan Wine in Paso Robles. We were in the area recently with a small group that makes an annual weekend trip to several wineries there.

 

We always stop at this particular tasting room and try to blast a few golf balls into the vineyard.

 

New Pipe

When we bought our house we knew that the sewer line between the house and the street had some problems with tree roots. We ran a camera through it during the inspection process and discovered that the pipe had been infiltrated by roots and was starting to back up. 

Shortly after moving in we had the line blasted clean with high-pressure water (hydro-jet). It seems that this is a good way to clean the pipe, but only temporarily. The roots eventually grow back and the pipe gets backed up again. We had the pipe hydro-jetted again a little over a year later.

This year, the pipe was getting affected by roots again so we decided to do something about it once and for all. We had it cleaned out and then the rooter company shot a synthetic liner through the length of the pipe.  That is the white material you see above.

The result is like having a brand new pipe. The fiberglass liner hardens inside the old clay pipe and has no joints or seams that would allow roots to get back in. It comes with a 25 year warranty and will hopefully keep us from having to deal with this mess anymore.

Above, you can see the new connection and a new upright clean-out. We're glad we thought to have the sewer line inspected before we moved in. We didn't suspect there was a problem, I just wanted to have a camera inspection done so I could see it for myself. Forunately we were able to get some consideration from the sellers when the issue was brought to their attention.