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April 29, 2007
Our Wacky Weekend
We had a big weekend in the Wells' household.
Friday night Jack had a baseball game in the drizzling cool rain at a location about an hour away from us. At the same time, Haydn had track practice at a location just a mile from where we live and then a dance to go to.
With the help of friends and teammates we were able to make it all work out.
Saturday we had track and baseball. One of the Track Moms was kind enough to provide transportation to and from Haydn's meet and picked him up at 8:15 a.m. After Haydn shot out the door Samson and I shot off to Mel's for breakfast (Jack would rather sleep than eat, I know that and, being Super Dad, try to respect his non-dangerous-to-himself wishes when I can). At Mel's we ran into one of our friends and Samson and I had post-breakfast ice cream, to celebrate her birthday, while she had eggs, toast and coffee. Always one to know how to show a woman a good time on her birthday (or the day after), I paid for her breakfast.
After breakfast, Jack, Sam and I drove to the same ballpark we'd been at Friday night. On the way there we stopped by White Castle so Jack could charge his batteries prior to the doubleheader. The first game was overcast and we had a chilly breeze blowing on us. The sun broke through for the second game and things were a bit warmer.
Saturday night we went to Target and bought Samson a practice amp for my 25-year old electric guitar — you know, for those times when things aren't noisy enough. The guitar required a bit of surgery to make it tunable — a spring had broken in whatever the part is that has springs (Hey, I don't know all the names of the parts … just about any bit that isn't called "a string" remains nameless to me … but I knew how to fix it. Wait, there might be a nut and a head. Also pickups Maybe tuning knobs. Oh, frets.)
Sunday we had a baseball game at noon. Jack's team won 12 to 2 and this led to a 4:30 game which created a conflict as Samson had soccer games at 3 and 4 at a field about 3/4 of a mile from where I live. The coach was kind enough to keep an eye on Jack and bring him home so I could get Samson to his first game pretty much on time.
After soccer Haydn and I worked out in the garage and then I mowed the yard and sprayed some weeds using the neighbor's male cat. Well, I really used a sprayer I have that I've cleverly painted a big P (for poison) on to distinguish it from the two other sprayers that I wonder why I own. I had to say the cat thing because the description of my weekend was starting to read like James Joyce (i.e., boring as hell) and it really wasn't like that at all. It was a great weekend.
Sunday night, after all the kids went to bed, I got out the fondue set, some paraffin, and did a little bit of evening up on the manly tree line.
Highlights from Jack's Games: Jack got on base a couple of times that I saw and may have gotten on once or twice when I wasn't around. One of his hits came when the team needed a hit; hits, as you know, are always good, but some come at better times than others. Jack stole second once. He hustled and tried hard. He had an error that he complained about but I missed seeing. He got a couple of hits to get on base and he walked to get on. He grounded out a couple of times and struck out a couple of times.
Highlights from Sam's Games: I was sitting on the side of the field talking with one of the dads and overheard, I thought, someone mention that they should put Samson at goalie as he does a good job there. Later, when Sam was doing goalie work, he scooped up the ball and gave it a big boot. I heard a man say, "Good gosh! Who kicked that?" to which a woman replied, "Samson. I told you he was a good goalie." Samson kicked the ball across midfield and about 1/2 between midfield and the opposing team's goal. He did it several times and I can't say that I saw anybody else kick the ball as far as midfield. It looks like all that time on the bicycle has done him good.
Personal Highlights: The boys had fun and were outside in the sun (and rain) bouncing around. They enjoy playing and I like the fact they like to play and feel good about their accomplishments.
Posted by delmer at April 29, 2007 8:50 PM
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Me too. Good job. Love
Posted by: mom/granny at April 30, 2007 7:43 AM
Wow! I'm exhausted just reading all of that! You boys were busy huh?
By the way, the fondue thing confused me...what exactly were you doing to it or did I just totally miss a point (joke) there?
Posted by: Pen at April 30, 2007 11:21 AM
The fondue / paraffin comment started out as me saying that I gave myself a bikini wax. That just looked funny so I wrote the same thing in an obscure code.
*Manly tree line* came to me as I thought back to a conversation I participated in last week. A woman I know commented that she'd been "edging the lawn." I interrupted and said if the story involved hot wax I was going to be a little uncomfortable.
She had been, simply, edging the lawn.
Posted by: delmer at April 30, 2007 11:33 AM