Hippie days are here again

Frisbee golf, FROLF, or "disc golf" as it is now known is back in my life. That makes me a happy hippie!
I remember playing Frisbee everything in 1972, 73, 74 on up.. 1979 was a memorable year in that we had a North American Series of competitions at Wichita State University (where we also had been playing "object oriented" Frisbee golf for a few years). I attended, competed, got the special commemorative 119g Frisbee, t-shirt, etc.

That's also the main year of our Ultimate Frisbee experiences. We played all over southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma with teams from colleges, teams of stoners (like ours) and church groups (which was strange while we were so stoned..). We spent hours practicing freestyle tricks and spinning the Frisbees on our fingers, etc.
Good times.. good times.

I'm ready for times like those to return to my daily life. It took about 35 years but the fun and spark are back. The discs used in disc golf now sort of suck.. but I'll get used to using about 25 discs now as opposed to when the two or three Frisbees we had back in the day seemed to work just fine.

There is even a division called "Super Class" that seems tailor made for us old hippie types.. you can use the old Frisbees as well as some new larger discs that don't fit in to the current disc golf routine.

More on this later also...

Some kind of record.. I'm sure

27 dead animals on a recent trip to North Dakota... a huge number by any standards. How often do you see a dead animal along the side of a highway? Maybe a few skunks, a dog, opossum, maybe a stray cat, etc.

ALL 27 of these were raccoons. Every last one of them. Either a massive mid west raccoon suicide pact happened or some of them were not "accidents".. if you get my drift.

WTF?! I have never seen so many road kills in one trip. I'm thinking that around 5 or 6 was the maximum I'd ever encountered on one trip before. That record has been obliterated now.

Hmm, it could be a sign of things to come. More on this later.