You’ll notice off to the side there is an Off-Road Tire Softball Schedule. We had so much fun playing church softball, a number of us got together, sponsored by Jon and Russell’s business, to play city fall league softball. The results aren’t much different, but the talent level is a little higher—or at least younger, since we have a number of Tech students playing with us.
I missed the first two games, but made it last Thursday night, and came in around the middle of the game to catch. My first AB, I hit one down the line and took off for first. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear until I made it to the bag that it was foul. I only have so much energy and breath—hate wasting it when I don’t have to! The next pitch I blooped to the outfield, where the fielder couldn’t get a handle on it and I made it to first. The next batter hit one on the ground out toward center. I could see the fielder wasn’t going to pick that up cleanly either so I somehow made it from first to third, seriously gasping when I was standing on third. Wound up scoring on the next batter’s hit.
Second time up, bases loaded, nobody out. Hard to really screw this one up, right? Even a regular double play scores a run. But I lift a fly ball behind second base. Thankfully, the guy on third was alert and scored on the play. As someone said in the dugout, “Don’t see too many sac flys to second!”
Anyway, the game was closer than the scored appeared. We gave up 6 in the first, then battled back. It was a 5 run game going into the last inning, when some miscues and missed calls lead to them scoring four more. The first three batters in our half of the inning got hits, but due to baserunning miscues after those three guys we had two outs, no runs, and a guy on third.
Back to it tonight, this time in the heat of the day. I’m pretty sure I’ll be passed out somewhere around shortstop if I have to go from first to third again!
We had sort of a busy weekend. Friday, we took Sarah to be weighed at the weekly baby weigh-in at the hospital. She is up to 15 lbs, 8 ozs, which is about 6 ozs more than her brother was at three months.
After that, I took the kids home while Meron went to do a Tastefully Simple party. For the most part, they were good, though Sarah got into her screaming fits the last hour or so. Daddy just doesn’t work sometimes, at least for her.
Saturday, Meron was to host a Premiere Jewelry party. A woman at our church sells it in a manner similar to Meron and Tastefully Simple and Meron had agreed at someone else’s party to host one of her own. Unfortunately, the house was really in no condition to have anyone come in, much less a party.
We tried to see if my parents wanted Benjamin for Friday night/Saturday, but they had plans and it wasn’t really going to work out well for them to have him. So I sent Meron and the kids out to their house (since they weren’t going to be around) while I cleaned the kitchen, den and guest bathroom. It wasn’t perfect, of course, but it looked 100% better than it had in the past. Now if we can just keep it that way, I’ll send them away once a month and try to get the rest of the house in order!
Of course, after all that work, after Meron preparing dips and such, after the consultant and her husband coming and setting up everything…..nobody showed up. Meron was pretty disappointed. It does seem like when we host things or invite a large group, few actually make the event. But zero is a record even for us! Still, if we hadn’t had that motivation, the house wouldn’t be in the much better shape that it is now.
And, since the house was presentable and Blake and Kerri had graciously allowed Benjamin to come over to their house and play while Blake and I discussed logistics of some of the changes at church last week, we were able to return the favor and invite Micah (Benjamin’s best buddy) over to our house today. Benjamin was quite looking forward to it, and being that Micah tends to wail anytime Benjamin leaves, I’d bet he is as well.
It’s really hard for me to believe that school is already in session. Having 100 degree days doesn’t help get you in the mindset that fall is coming, either. But football starts this weekend, the county fair should be here in a couple of weeks, and hopefully soon after that we’ll get more 75-80 degree days instead of triple digits.
And, hopefully, I’ll be able to get back to the poker table soon. I’ve not played since a couple of weeks since Sarah was born. I think I might get to a Wednesday ring game, if not this week, then in a couple of weeks, before rejoining the PPT. Good thing I (hopefully) get a Founders’ Exemption into the Shootout, otherwise I’d never make enough points to get in! I don’t think I’ve even played any play money games on line in that time. Which means that the PPT guys are really looking forward to “Dead Money” Shoptaw showing back up!
CardsClubhouse is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week! I’ve been there since, well, basically the opening of the doors and so it’s hard to think that it’s been that long. It’s a great community over there and hopefully it will continue to grow for the next five years!
That’s roughly it for us right now. I may have more updates before we finish up with the
2 comments:
A sac fly to second base-that's hysterical.
Hey it looks like a fly ball to the warning track in the scorebook! Well maybe not, but an RBI none the less.
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