Nathan's Occasional Blog

I just got an email announcement from the Executive Director of the Boeing Greater Seattle Classic, a PGA Champions Tour (a.k.a. senior tour) event being held next weekend at the TPC at Snoqualmie Ridge.  I live about a 1/4 mile from the 18th fairway.  So what’s the big deal?

On Friday, Aug. 18, at about 9:50 a.m., a Boeing 777 will salute BGSC fans and players as it circles the course at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, lines up with the 18th fairway, and flies up and over the clubhouse to start the event.  The airplane, provided courtesy of The Boeing Company and Japan Air Lines, will be flying at about 1,000 feet over the area…

Oh hell yeah!  That’s going to be friggin’ awesome to see.  The plane will essentially be coming up the street towards my house.  Consider this my official notice that I’ll be in to the office late on Friday morning.  🙂

We’ll post some pictures as soon as we have them.

Play catch on the Field of Dreams.  I can’t believe that was made 17 years ago!

DYERSVILLE, Iowa – The corn lining the outfield is tall again this year. The iconic white farmhouse, with its wraparound porch and picket fence appear unaffected by time. The mythic baseball diamond and lush outfield looks just like it did in the movie made 17 years ago. And for a couple hours Friday evening, hundreds of children and parents raced around the bases, played catch or hit soft pitches all over the field made so famous in the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams.”