AI
Sunday, March 18, 2007 4:21:00 PM
LOL - well said! At my level of tennis 3.5 - 4.0, its all about keeping the ball in play and waiting for your opponent to make a mistake. You get the occasional opportunity to hit a winner down the line or up the middle, but for the most part - as you said, keep at it until they leave.
That's what I did to my single opponent - winning 6-2.
The Aids foundation function was held at King Kamehameha Golf course country club. The "club" design is based on drawings for a home that Frank Lloyd Wright was going to build for Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. What a beautiful setting for the party!
If circumstances had been different, the imposing rose-colored structure that stands in Waikapu, in the foothills of the West Maui Mountains, would have wound up as a vacation home for Marilyn Monroe and her playwright-husband Arthur Miller -- instead of the clubhouse that's the centerpiece of The King Kamehameha Golf Club.
In 1957, the jet-setting couple asked renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design an escape for them near rustic Roxbury, Conn.
Wright brought out a design he'd tried to build twice before -- once in 1949 as a luxury residence for a wealthy family in Fort Worth, Texas; three years later as a home on the cliffs of Acapulco Bay for a Mexican Cabinet official. Both projects had been abandoned.
For the Monroe-Miller retreat, Wright revised the drawings to include, among other features, a cinema with a film vault, a nursery and a swimming pool with a gentle slope leading to a running brook.
When the couple's marriage dissolved in 1958, however, so did their dream of building the 10,000- to 14,000-square-foot country estate. Wright died the following year, and for the next 30 years, the blueprints were tucked away in the archives of Taliesin West, an architectural firm in Scottsdale, Ariz., that grew from Wright's practice.
In 1988, Wright's design was reborn after Hawaii entrepreneurs Howard Hamamoto and Masaru "Pundy" Yokouchi and their Tokyo business partner, Takeshi Sekiguchi, visited Taliesin West.
They planned two golf courses in Waikapu -- Sandalwood (now Kahili) Golf Course and the Waikapu Valley Country Club (now The King Kamehameha Golf Club) -- and envisioned the latter's clubhouse to be an attraction in itself.
The three partners focused on Wright drawings that had never been executed. Taliesin West architects suggested the "Marilyn Monroe house"; reflecting the elegance and dignity of a manor, they thought it would be an ideal choice.
Completed in May 1993 at a cost of $27 million, the 75,000-square-foot clubhouse retains the integrity of Wright's design. Taliesin West's John Rattenbury, a Wright apprentice and the architect of record, describes it as "one of the most fascinating and challenging projects I have ever worked on."
We bid on and purchased a beautiful, buckskin, soft leather recliner. Just what I wanted for my new media room! (Maybe there IS something to "the Secret"????)
Time to write up some reports, and gather records for meeting the tax prep man later this week.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
That's what I did to my single opponent - winning 6-2.
The Aids foundation function was held at King Kamehameha Golf course country club. The "club" design is based on drawings for a home that Frank Lloyd Wright was going to build for Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe. What a beautiful setting for the party!
If circumstances had been different, the imposing rose-colored structure that stands in Waikapu, in the foothills of the West Maui Mountains, would have wound up as a vacation home for Marilyn Monroe and her playwright-husband Arthur Miller -- instead of the clubhouse that's the centerpiece of The King Kamehameha Golf Club.
In 1957, the jet-setting couple asked renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design an escape for them near rustic Roxbury, Conn.
Wright brought out a design he'd tried to build twice before -- once in 1949 as a luxury residence for a wealthy family in Fort Worth, Texas; three years later as a home on the cliffs of Acapulco Bay for a Mexican Cabinet official. Both projects had been abandoned.
For the Monroe-Miller retreat, Wright revised the drawings to include, among other features, a cinema with a film vault, a nursery and a swimming pool with a gentle slope leading to a running brook.
When the couple's marriage dissolved in 1958, however, so did their dream of building the 10,000- to 14,000-square-foot country estate. Wright died the following year, and for the next 30 years, the blueprints were tucked away in the archives of Taliesin West, an architectural firm in Scottsdale, Ariz., that grew from Wright's practice.
In 1988, Wright's design was reborn after Hawaii entrepreneurs Howard Hamamoto and Masaru "Pundy" Yokouchi and their Tokyo business partner, Takeshi Sekiguchi, visited Taliesin West.
They planned two golf courses in Waikapu -- Sandalwood (now Kahili) Golf Course and the Waikapu Valley Country Club (now The King Kamehameha Golf Club) -- and envisioned the latter's clubhouse to be an attraction in itself.
The three partners focused on Wright drawings that had never been executed. Taliesin West architects suggested the "Marilyn Monroe house"; reflecting the elegance and dignity of a manor, they thought it would be an ideal choice.
Completed in May 1993 at a cost of $27 million, the 75,000-square-foot clubhouse retains the integrity of Wright's design. Taliesin West's John Rattenbury, a Wright apprentice and the architect of record, describes it as "one of the most fascinating and challenging projects I have ever worked on."
We bid on and purchased a beautiful, buckskin, soft leather recliner. Just what I wanted for my new media room! (Maybe there IS something to "the Secret"????)
Time to write up some reports, and gather records for meeting the tax prep man later this week.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
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