What Do Rednecks Do When They Live on a Golf Course?

Well, if you live in my house, you go "laking". What is "laking"? you might ask. Well, that would be when you get into the lakes on the course and find the golf balls. The plan is to clean them and then sell them to the golfers (probably the same ones who lost them in the first place!) The golf course we live on is very tight, and there are lots of water hazzards to hit your ball into. Richard used to do this when he was young, so all my boys have been planning it since we started building the house. We have now recruited our neighbor and his 13 year old son, as well. (We did this before the course flooded this week)

I do have to say that I do NOT go laking! The boys have been a couple of times, and keep talking about it, so I knew I had to go and take pictures. I have to say, it is one of the most hysterical things I have ever seen. Cade and I did not get in the water. We stood on the green and collected the balls that the boys would throw from the water. There were hundreds! Final count from this one night was 1300 golf balls! Can you believe it? All together, we have about 2,500 golf balls in our garage.

There were a couple of scares when we were out there. A car looked like it was coming our way, so I told Cade to get down. While we were crouched on the green, the sprinkler started spraying water all over us. Of course, I was holding the camera so I had to run to keep it dry. The boys thought that was hysterical. Then a neighbor who lives close to the lake we were in, started shining a big light to see what was going on. We tried to hide, but it was useless. Thank goodness, I have at least met these neighbors because Richard was hiding in the water! They left me there to take all the heat. They didn't come out until they saw it was a "friendly" visit. I could have killed them!

So, here are the pictures:

Here are the 3 boys and 2 dads going into the water. No, it's not the safest thing they could be doing on a Saturday night, but they will never be able to say they had a boring childhood!

Here are the three big boys. They were squating down. The water only came up to their knees right there, but they were cold.

Here is a shot of the green as they were throwing the balls up. This wasn't even close to all of them. Cade and I ran around collecting them in a net. We had to dodge the balls because they were throwing them so fast.

Here is some of the group with the "loot". That entire garbage can is filled to the top (plus what's on top). 1300 balls!

Here's Braden the next day. We were dying to know how many golf balls fit into that garbage can, so the boys counted them all. They are now washing them and dividing them into groups. There will be $1 balls, $.50 balls, and $.25 balls. They will actually make a good bit of money this summer doing this!

Truth is, I'm a little embarrassed to show you all this post because I am sure you think we're crazy. Truth is, we are, and we love it that way!