Marion's Retirement

[ChrissyRyan]

Pretty flower Marion!

You do have a nice waist/hip ratio.

Anything more than six inches difference between waist and either top or bottom should be nicely noticeable. 

You are petite.

[Charlotte Kitty ✅]

I'm wearing the cute pink cami with lace trim I bought from Kohl's a few months ago.

Played my 16th round of golf today!  My waistline is back down to 24 inches! I can pull the tape measure down to 23.  With a hip measurement of 34 inches, that works out to w/h ratio of 0.71.  Which means I look pretty good wearing crop tops. 🙂

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That's very pretty..looks like a wild rose? I might be wrong. That cute pink cami sounds nice!

Charlotte 😻

[Maid Marion]

It is popular variety in the states known as Golden Wings.  It was a favorite of Pickering Roses.  They used to sell roses in Canada and the USA.  They would bring in grafters from Europe.

[Maid Marion]

I had my first Par 5 in regulation today!  I chipped in from the thick grass around the green!  It was a challenging downhill lie but I hit the pin and the ball dropped in the hole.

I had a great playing partner today.  He plays competitively and liked being able to talk to someone who has been able to figure out how to play better.  We played really fast together.

I played with another guy for the last eight holes and explained the difference between gender and sexuality.

Marion

[Dawn Kellie]

That's amazing. I think once my knee has been fixed I will start playing again. Sounds like a great day

[Maid Marion]

I was interviewed by a West Hartford PR publicist who is writing a book on Rosarians!
He spent seven years as a TV reporter/anchor as his first job before his company decided to cut costs.

I explained the practicality and reality of wearing women's clothes.
He understood my example of not being able to buy anything at Brooks Brothers, as he is tall and thin, so a suit jacket fits more like a midriff exposing crop top on him!

After the first few pictures he had a problem with my glasses, as they transitioned into sun glasses.
He was happy to see I owned another pair of glasses that matched my outfit better.  It had rose colored wire frames and clear lenses.  It was around 40 degrees or 4 Celsius so I wore a pink wool cap, a fitted pink golf jacket, flannel lined black jeans, and floral golf shoes.  My pink nail polish was a bit worn on my right hand but I wanted to look like a gardener, not a model!

[Maid Marion]

I posted on golf forum about skort lengths after someone else commented that she wears normally wears 15 inch skorts but that nobody would mind if she went down to 12 inches.  I said that I'm 5ft 2 and wear 17 inch XS skorts as they fit nicely on my 34 inch hips.  Turns out that we are the same size!  Same waist but her hips are two inches wider.  She is just an inch taller.

[Maid Marion]

I went to a casual restaurant, Target, and two grocery stores, while wearing a pink knee length skirts and 2inch black leather ankle booties.  The conditioning from walking golf courses allows me to walk quickly in heels without getting tired.  With pink nail polish I easily get gendered as female.  Instead of the usual pink hat I wore a gray Tilley bucket hat to go with the black boots.

I bought 1/2 lb of Sockeye salmon to make two meals of Miso Salmon.  One half is marinating right now.

I zap my leg hairs with a Braun IPL so my legs are smooth all summer.  I wear sunscreen so I get a very light tan on them.
I also have an epilator to pull hairs that are hard to zap.

I found out that if I do a Roth conversion instead of a contribution there is no 5 year wait on taking that money out because I'm a senior and started a Roth account more than 5 years ago!  Though there is a 5 year wait on returns made on the converted money.  And I can convert more money by making estimated tax payments instead of withholding money for taxes. But I have to be careful not to take out too much or it may wipe out my ACA subsidy!  It sure is complicated in the USA! 

[Maid Marion]

I explained why I wear XS women's clothes on my Facebook page.  In terms a 5th grader could understand.
As I recall, in the 5th or 6th grade, the girls had started their growth spurt and were taller than the boys!

I received four likes.

Marion

[Maid Marion]

After six years of learning to play golf I'm quite pleased to realize that I'm playing better than a lot of my random partners! Part of it that I've learned all phases of playing golf, from tee to green.  But the biggest strength is being able to identify and fix swing issues as I play a round.  It also helps to have survived a stroke and been on the other side as an ALS caregiver.

I don't have to hit it far.  I play well by hitting my driver up the middle of the fairway.  If it rolls off  into the rough I'll  use my fairway wood to get it back onto the fairway.  A middle iron if falls into deep rough.  A punch out back to the fairway with a 3iron if it lands into the woods.  As well as lining up approach shots that don't have to carry hazards.

I also play with social awareness on the course, identifying groups in front of us.  Yesterday there was a guy in a bright blue shirt.  Last week it was a guy in an orange shirt.  Stuff you can see from a long distance or through the trees.

Marion

[Maid Marion]

It is no accident that I look very good for my age.
I'd peel the breading off Woolworth's chicken.  We were eating with a very athletic guy in his mid 20s.  When my mom said to stop doing that he pointed that was a very healthy thing to do, so my mom allowed me to continue removing the grease and carbs from the chicken!

I've been very good at protecting myself from the sun, so my legs have very little sun damage!

Marion

[Petunia]

Marion, what do you use for sun protection when you play golf?

My skin disgusts me from my teenage years chasing little white balls in tge Australian sun

[Maid Marion]

I wear tops with sun sleeves.  They are vented on the undersides.                                       
Sunscreen on my hands and legs. Long pants on cool days that don't reach the mid 70s.

Marion

[Petunia]

I should have done that. I only used sunscreen, spf 25 which was as good as it got in the 80's.

I remember coating my face with it in the changeroom one morning and one of the he men said, "what are you, a sissy?"

I guess he was close to the mark but another older guy who obviously had many skin cancers cut off said,
"nah, he's smart. I wish I did that."

[Petunia]

One thing you've probably worked out is a good short game can get you out of a lot of trouble.

I'll never go back to golf. It wasn't good for an angry young "man" seeking perfection.  I never want that again.

But for the right person it is a good pursuit

[Stottie Girl]

The short game is where you need to concentrate your efforts, that's the way to get a low scorecard.

The older, wiser golfers always used to play course management. Never big hitting but always near the green in two, a delicate cip and run and down the hole in one putt. Me, I might have driven the green and got a birdie or an eagle or I might be deep in the rough or in a bunker it is a lot more eratic. The traps are usually positioned to catch the big hitters so if you lay up shorter you can often avoid trouble, it is easier to control the ball with a shorter iron too.

Not as exciting as giving the ball a good whack though! I think my days of 300 yard drives are behind me, I can barely carry my shopping to the car now ha ha!

When I transition though, playing off the ladies tees might make it fun again!

[Maid Marion]

I learned to play on a tricky short course.  It was an executive muni for beginners and seniors.
No tee times.  Good golfers would play it once in a while and lose a couple balls in the trees.
I found a lot of Pro V1x balls in the woods near the 3rd green.  The hole with a tree in the middle of the fairway.

I have a great bunker game.  Rarely does it take more than one swing to get out of a sand trap.
My short game had one big flaw.  Too big of a back swing.  I'm changing that this year, so my distance and dispersion is off right now if I'm between 5 and 40 yards from the green.  But my AW from 50 to 70 is really good.  As is my irons out to 100 yards.

I learned course management by playing Par 3s as very short Par 4s.  I learned to hit to high spots on the course.
Once in a while I'll decide to work the ball with a draw and can make that shot.

"Turning the screws."  I did that last round.  My driving got better as my partner's struggled to keep their drives on the fairway.
Then I'd follow that up with a long 3HL, the  hardest swing to hit off the fairway.   I was able to keep three long distance swings on the fairway, leaving me just 30  yards from a Par 5 GIR from the white tees!  On the 2nd shot I climbed the hill to see where where I needed to hit the ball, leaving my bag near my partner's ball buried in the rough.  It was quite the achievement to do that and make the shot!       

I forgot to mention I wear a pink Tilley bucket hat to protect my face.

[Stottie Girl]

yeah you need to wear a hot and sunscreen when your as milkbottle white as me!

What's an AW? and a 3HL? not terms I've heard of.

I have the same set of clubs I bought when I was 21! the only change was a putter in the 2000's along with a Callaway Big Bertha and a Mizuno lob wedge. Never really kept abreast of golf tech. Seemed to work fine to me!

ProV 1 is my choice of balls. There is a store near me that sells boxed Prov 1 hit em again lake balls.

[Maid Marion]

Approach Wedge is a large forgiving iron with 48 degrees of loft.

3HL is a fairway wood with a 3wood size head and 16.5 degrees of loft.

I just ordered 3 dozen yellow ProV1s that most likely came out of a lake for $120.

Marion