Lasso Golf, also called ladder golf, is this summer’s lawn game craze. If you don’t have yourself a set yet then go get one. I can not remember having this much fun since Lawn Darts. You remember Lawn Darts don’t you? Those wonderfully dangerous flying plastic arrows with the sharp metal tips that you would through back and forth at your friends - I mean try to stick inside the hula hoop. Oh how many a backyard barbeque’s were stop short with 911 calls because someone got speared in the foot, leg or temple by a stray lawn dart?!
Now enters the more safety focused Lasso Golf. The rules to Lasso Golf are similar to horseshoes, bocce ball or lawn darts for that matter. You setup two three-rung plastic ladders about 20 feet apart. Then you get points for getting your lasso - two golf balls tied to either end of a short piece of rope - to wrap around one of the rungs of the ladder. 3 points for the low rung, 2 points for the middle and 1 for the top. Fun game for all. Get yourself a set and invite the neighbors over for a bbq and have a good time challenging each other in lasso golf.
They just don’t make ‘em with this much style anymore. Yes I’m jumping on the vintage bike bandwagon. Just picked up an old Schwinn Speedster off Craigslist. I don’t know much about it yet but I going to learn. It definitely needs some loving. I’m sure just a little grease and some new treads and I’ll be looking like a champ pedaling around my neighborhood!
UPDATE: Just uploaded a video of me and the Speedster to YouTube - check it out.
Months back while stumbling around the interweb I happened upon the Topsy Turvy™ Upside-down Tomato Planter and thought - I have gots to get me some! How Cool is that?!?! Grow tomato plants upside down from a hanging basket! And perfect for us yard-less city dwellers to hang on our deck/patio/lanai.
In usual fashion I let time slip by and now I hear it is almost too late in the season to plant tomatoes. I have no idea if that is true or not because I have never planted anything in my life. But, what better time to start. I quickly googled ‘upside down tomato planter’ to find that about 60,000 other people are growing tomato plants in the abnormal direction. After scanning a couple articles I ran to Fred Meyer and picked up a couple tomato plants (a Tumbling Tom and a Window Box Roma), a couple 5 gallon buckets, some potting soil, and some hanging hardware and I was off.
After a few minutes - wahla! I’ve got a couple of my very own upside down tomato plants! Now bring on the summer sun and lets see if they produce any juicy red goodness! I’ll report on the progress later this summer.
Lasso Golf, also called ladder golf, is this summer’s lawn game craze. If you don’t have yourself a set yet then go get one. I can not remember having this much fun since Lawn Darts. You remember Lawn Darts don’t you? Those wonderfully dangerous flying plastic arrows with the sharp metal tips that you would through back and forth at your friends - I mean try to stick inside the hula hoop. Oh how many a backyard barbeque’s were stop short with 911 calls because someone got speared in the foot, leg or temple by a stray lawn dart?! 
Now enters the more safety focused Lasso Golf. The rules to Lasso Golf are similar to horseshoes, bocce ball or lawn darts for that matter. You setup two three-rung plastic ladders about 20 feet apart. Then you get points for getting your lasso - two golf balls tied to either end of a short piece of rope - to wrap around one of the rungs of the ladder. 3 points for the low rung, 2 points for the middle and 1 for the top. Fun game for all. Get yourself a set and invite the neighbors over for a bbq and have a good time challenging each other in lasso golf. 
