A Hole In One
Dictated by Bryce:
WOW. Friday’s golf tournament exceeded all hopes and expectations. Both Tammy and I were moved by the generosity of both friends and strangers, and can’t find the words to thank you all. I want to throw out special props to Jared, Darrin, Cody and Danny for arranging the whole thing. It was great to see some of the faces I have been hearing from on the blog. I was glad to see Alex L. out there, just weeks after the tragic loss of his dad to cancer. The weather made a special effort to hold out for us. It had just started to rain as they were wheeling me out the door of our home. For me, one of the highlights was seeing Travis A.’s three little clones at the raffle. His daughter and two sons were a riot to watch running after Jason "Julio" in their Bears jerseys, and chasing after each other with Tammy’s pen that looks like a severed finger.
Sounds like I was well represented by my brother’s team who took last place. Way to protect the family name, Brady! (I’ll just tell everybody you probably didn’t have enough money to buy any mulligans--at least that’s the excuse I’m going with.) It was good to see Wooz win a new putter. I hear his putting game could use some work.
We are so grateful to Rob L. and his unexpected generosity. We were absolutely speechless! Thanks also to Matt for coming to take pictures, and to Bountiful Ridge for use of the facility. Now I just want to say how much I love you guys and how glad I am that we have been able to bring this old group of friends together again. It’s sad that it took cancer to do so, but it is awesome to see the old group together. Not a lot has changed—they have either swollen or shrunk….no, mostly swollen. The old friendships just slide back in, like a hand in a glove. We shouldn’t have to wait for horrible events to occur to reconnect with old friends. It would have been great to have spent the past 15 years hanging out with my friends and getting to know their families, but we all let life get in the way. I will be aware of this in the future.
I really do love and appreciate you guys. It has been so uplifting to have you back in my life. Hopefully I will be the 1% who beats this melanoma and I’ll be out there on the course with you for the second annual Brown Ryce Golf Tourney, putting for melanoma research (our future charity)!
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Golf Joke #3 To Make Bryce Laugh
"Tough Round
A man comes home after a terrible round of golf, his worst ever.
He plops down on the couch in front of the television, and tells his wife, "Get me a beer before it starts."
The wife sighs and gets him a beer. Fifteen minutes later, he says, "Get me another beer before it starts." She looks cross, but fetches another beer and slams it down next to him.
He finishes that beer and a few minutes later says, "Quick, get me another beer, it's going to start any minute."
The wife is furious. She yells at him "You've been out golfing all day! Is that all you're going to do tonight? Drink beer and sit in front of that TV? You're nothing but a lazy, drunken, fat slob, and furthermore . . ."
The man sighs and says, "It's started . . "
BTW, the power of prayer works, as of yesterday Nancy is NED. She never gave in to this disease and you aren't either. Prayers, Prayers and more prayers on the way. (Also, try the Noni Juice...maybe it worked because she was having a breast biopsy yesterday and having a lump removed. The docs could not find it. IT WAS GONE!! They did 5 mammograms and could not find it after they had done 3 mammograms and an ultra sound 2 weeks ago and it was there. The only difference...Nancy started drinking Tahitian Noni Juice. The University of Michigan released her and told her to go home...she never had any more surgery. Praise God and Noni Juice.)
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Bryce and Tammy,
What a great time we had at the golf tournament! Thanks to all those who helped organize it and to everyone who participated and made it such a success. I agree that it is too bad we've waited so long and that it's taken one of the us having cancer in order to get us all together for an afternoon of golf, but we sure had a great time! We raised close to $10,000 thanks to the generosity of so many people and for those who still would like to contribute there is a link at the top of the blog called "I want to help" you can click on that and make a donation to Bryce's fight against cancer. Please spread the word.
It would have been nice to have you on the course with us Bryce, but it was great to see you make the trip up afterwards. You and your wife have touched so many people and it was evident at the raffle afterwards how many people you've inspired and how many people are pulling for you guys! Next year you'll be golfing with us and hey, you'll be 60 lbs lighter! Stay strong, we all love you!
Jerd