Briarwood Golf Club in York, PA

I recently played Briarwood Golf Club in York, PA. My dad and I played as a twosome; we played the West course. When driving past the East course, the first few holes looked very flat with lots of young trees, but as you can see by the picture the East Course is far from flat and undeveloped (from Briarwood's website). The opening holes of the West course look totally different from the East and has a very nice layout through the rolling hills of South-Central Pennsylvania.

The beginning of the West course has much bigger and older trees so the course looks much older. My dad and I are slightly better than bogey-golfers, and when looking at the yardages on the scorecard, we decided to play the back (blue) tees since those were only around 6400 yards. The course was in good shape with well defined fairways and very consistent greens. The course was a bit wet from the early summer rains so we were forced to stay on the cart path for a few holes. I felt the course design is pretty fair to the average to above-average golfer. However, there were a few long drives that I was glad to have the ball slowed by the wet fairways, since I would have rolled into a creek cutting through the middle of the fairway. The course is very pretty with plenty of water holes and many well-placed sand traps. Our time on the course was pretty quiet as the hills acted as a good sound barrier.

The improvements I would like to see on this course would be the addition of a par 5 on the front nine and another one on the back nine. There were a few long par 4's where it would have been easy to add an extra tee in the way back and move all of the tee off areas back one level to make it a par 5. Also, their riding carts were acceptable, but a nice addition would be newer electric models as they are using gas currently. Though I didn't shoot the best round of my life, and it wasn't a PGA tour quality course, I still had a great time. I would enjoy playing this course again and would recommend it to anyone in the Pennsylvania and Maryland area. It was only about an 70 minute drive from the Baltimore metro area. Don't let the recession keep you away either as my Dad and I played on a weekday morning with a cart and paid only $29.00 for me and $25.00 for him (senior citizen discount). A very good deal for some good quality golf!

Wordless Wednesday: Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls 2 years ago before the 4th of July fireworks; shot from Canadian side looking at the American falls

My wife has made me a fan of the Wordless Wednesday meme, so I decided to link up.

For more Wordless Wednesdays, visit Five Minutes for Mom.

The Attic Girl: Talbots and Christopher & Banks Sale at Donny Dixon's Attic

The Attic Girl: Talbots and Christopher & Banks Sale at Donny Dixon's Attic



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Colorful Resume

You think you've got a colorful resume? How does your list of jobs match up to mine? Check this out and remember I'm only 30 years old.

• Owner of Small Lawn Mowing Business
  
• Golf Course Pro Shop Sales
• Janitor at an Athletic Club
  
• Maintenance Worker at an Athletic Club
• Christian Rock Musician
• Commercial Painter
• Landscaper / Lawn Mower for a friend's business
• Amway Sales Rep
• 3rd Shift Produce Department at a Grocery Store
• RVP Tester for Eastern Region for a leading US Motor Oil Company
• Leaf Raking Business
  
• Car Wash Tech
• Lube Shop Tech
• Car Wash Manager
• Shoe Shine Boy at a prestigious golf course
  
• Delivery of trash bags for a well known charity
• Class A CDL truck driver for a pallet company
• Class A CDL truck driver for a furniture company
• Customer Service Rep for a leading mobile phone carrier
• Customer Service Rep for a leading oral fluid diagnostics company
• Lead Management Sales Rep for the same oral fluid diagnostics company
• IQC tech for the same oral fluid diagnostics company
• Warehouse Worker for the same oral fluid diagnostics company
• Warehouse Team Leader for the same oral fluid diagnostics company
• Owner of an auto detailing company
• Owner of a different company offering mobile car washes and auto detailing
• Warehouse Manager at a leading plastics distributor
• Inside Sales Rep at a leading plastics distributor
• Co-Owner and founder of a growing e-Commerce business
  

Where have all the bidders gone?

The recession is making its presence known in many shapes and forms. I'm sure that everyone in the USA is being affected by the recession whether directly or indirectly.

As an eBay Powerseller, I've personally seen the the effects on sales this summer. I've never seen anything like this before. I've got 4 times as many items in my store this summer than what I had last summer and yet my store traffic is less than it was last year at this time. The number of bids has been way down as well as buy it now format items. I'm not sure if everyone is traveling because it is summer and the weather has been great for vacations and camping, or if the lack of sales is due to the tightening of everyone's spending because of the recession.

I'd love to hear back from other eBay sellers to hear how you are surviving this summer slump in this nasty recession. I'll peronally invite you all to visit my eBay Store at www.donnydixonsattic.com
and feel free to visit my outlet store that is currently under construction at www.ddaoutlet.mybisi.com . If you are a seller and are leaving a comment, please feel free to leave me a link to your site as I'd love to check out your store! Thanks for stopping by!

The recession won't affect Happy Valley!

I've recently seen the effects of the recession all around me. Stores that have been around for a long time are closing their doors for good, people are watching their spending, and people are losing their jobs at every turn. It's a scary culture to live in, but I have a strong feeling. My feeling is that Penn State Pride is going to be stronger than ever this fall in Happy Valley. Why you may ask? People need something to be happy about. People need something or some place to get lost in. Penn State isn't the only stadium that will be full this fall, but I talk blue and white because that's who I am and what I know. I saw people still bleed blue and white even when our team struggled to win 4 games in a season. Teams that we had normally pummeled suddenly turned the tables on us. I saw our team fail to have a winning record two years in a row. Yet, even with all of this adversity the stadium still had 97000 people for each home game. That is amazing to me that there are that many other people like me that love Penn State Football! Though most tickets still cost over $50.00 per seat for each game, I'm sure we're going to see numbers near capacity of 108,000 each and every week this fall. Are we going to be good enough to win it all this year? Maybe not, but it won't matter.........because when those blue jerseys emerge from that tunnel and the white helmets begin to bob up and down.......all of reality will melt away for a few hours. So, maybe you're not into Penn State and maybe you're not even into football. What's important in this day and age is to find what does let you escape reality for a little while and just go there. Be there and don't think about the bills you need to pay, or the job you need to find, or the work you need to do on your house, or whatever it is that is dragging you down. We're not getting any healthier by dwelling on the constant bad news around us, so find your escape and go there on a regular basis. For me, it will be in the stands in Happy Valley or at home in front of the tube watching and cheering for the blue and white. WE ARE........PENN STATE!!!

Back to blogging

Wow, its been so long since my last blog post. Not that I have many followers yet, but for anyone who was watching I'm sorry that I got lost in my busy schedule. I've been staying very busy working with my wonderful wife on our eBay store www.donnydixonsattic.com as well as working full time as a warehouse manager as my day job. The attic has been up and down in recent months. We've grown leaps and bounds since last year at this time and we're now shipping about 3 times as many packages as we were a year ago. One of the things I've been doing to help us grow our business is lettering our cars for advertising. Here's a picture of my car that I lettered last week. Let me know if you've seen it on the streets in the DC / Baltimore metro area. Last but not least I'm working on opening an outlet store that is not part of eBay. You can checkout the outlet store at www.ddaoutlet.mybisi.com .

I hope to be writing again soon. Thanks for viewing my blog!