He didn’t win but you have to admit having Tiger Woods in contention on the final day of the Master’s sure made things interesting. It was the wildest Sunday ever at Augusta National with eight players having or sharing the lead at one point but the bottom line is that Tiger’s charge early in the day is what electrified the gallery and many of us watching at home. 26-year old Charl Scwartzel of South Africa emerged from a crowded pack to birdie the final four holes and he was the unlikely winner of the “green jacket.” Just as unlikely was the complete and utter collapse of Irishman Rory McIlroy who took a four-shot lead into Sunday before falling apart at the seams and shooting a round of 80. It was simply a tremendous afternoon of gut wrenching golf and great theatre.
Talk about weird movies. We watched “Black Swan” over the weekend...that’s the film for which Natalie Portman won a Best Actress Oscar just last month. She is very good, although my wife and I were wondering if she did any of the dancing scenes. I know many movie reviewers thought it was brilliant and masterful and all of that good stuff but frankly it’s one of those movies that I’ll never have any reason to watch again.
There are still businesses that operate the old-fashioned way and one of them has to be Pettis Clock Shop in Toms River. We have a clock that hangs outside in the summer because it also displays the temperature and the hands were getting stuck.
So I brought it in to the shop on Route 166 in Toms River Saturday expecting to leave it and pick it up at a later date. Instead for $10.00 I got to watch Orville Pettis delicately and meticulously work his magic, heard about his days working on aircraft at McGuire Air Force Base and a history lesson on the clock shop which has been in the same location for more than 40 years. Now that was a bargain…and the clock works just fine.
No it’s not your imagination. You drive by a place in the morning and gas is $3.49 a gallon. You go by at lunch and its $3.55. Just imagine what it will be after dinner.
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