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very sad. I tried to download the new FireFox 3 - but failed.
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Grace finished off her t-ball season and did well in the last game. I showed her some of the basics of how to stand and how to hold a bat, but she got frustrated that there were so many things to do - I think I over-did the gentle suggestions-thing. As I look back on it, what was once an easy thing (standing at the plate) turned very complicated when she had to think about where to put her feet and in which direction her toes should point and where her elbow should be. If I get the chance to do some more of this I will have to focus on fewer aspects of batting-stance at a time.
In any case each time she got up to bat she got a real solid hit! She had never done better than when she adopted my suggestions! And what’s more, she gives me credit. Ain’t she a sweetie?
We had been at the park for about ten minutes when Ben came running over saying that he had fallen on some rocks and, in a panicky voice told me and Liz that he had cut himself. He sure did! There was about a three-inch cut across the base of his palm and vertically down the inside of his wrist. When he held his arm out there was a small puddle of dark red blood at the base of the cut. It turned out to be quite deep. Well, that’s what the doctor said. Liz took Ben to the “hospibal”, as Grace would say. They wound up giving him a couple of stitches.
He treated it pretty tenderly last night but seemed more relaxed with it this morning although he complained of continuing soreness. But that’s to be expected, I suppose.
Ben is easily our most fragile child. When he was 4 he broke his arm. When he was five he broke his leg. When he was six his appendix burst. Last summer, at age 11 he sprained his ankle in Vermont. Well, he seems to be handling it well.
Finally, today is the last day of school. The kids are very excited to have the summer ahead of them and seem poised to take full advantage of it.
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Father’s day was quiet. I had originally threatened my wife with dragging her and the kids two hours south to Groton, CT to see a submarine museum, but I took pity on them. I think that I will go there sometime this summer, but I will make it a more voluntary event. I know Liz didn’t want to drive two hours to see something in which she had no interest only to follow it up with a two hour drive home. So I will make it a kid-Dad day instead.
My plan-B was to go to the Ipswitch River Wildlife Sanctuary. I haven’t been there in maybe 6 or 7 years. I took Gabriel there once for a little one-on-one time and on a single trip I “saved” him from a 6′ black snake, literally almost bumped in to a deer and some turkeys and came face-to-face with some kind of weasel. There were small but very clear drumlins. The flowers in the swamp with the summer light was really something to see. And finally there was a cool place called The Rockery - a stack of stones with a tunnel through it that was set up specifically for just sitting and watching a pond and the swamp beyond. With all this I got hung up on the $4 fee so I haven’t been back since.
It turned out that Sunday’s rain killed my plan-b too.
Instead we went to lunch and did a couple of errands. That was about it. Otherwise we took care of chores around the house and watched Young Frankenstein.
Sunday night we watched the big Celtics/LA game but by 11pm I couldn’t stay awake any more at all. I’ve really been getting in to watching more basketball and I was very impressed at how they were able to come back from a devastating 15-point deficit. Still, I guess they couldn’t put it all together to wrap up their fourth game because they still lost by six points in the end. Well, that’s what i hear anyway - I was sawing logs by then.
Saturday Chloe and Grace and I took our bikes over to where grace was playing t-ball. The game was typical but I had a good time visiting with some of the parents, who were hilarious. All the things I find idiotic and absurd about my kids’ schools these parents had already come up with a dozen funny things to say and do about it. Grace is getting better on her bicycle too. She’s dying for some more bike-time. She’s only six so we don’t let her go toodling all over town and so she has to go with her brothers who don’t necessarily want a six year old following them around.
On Friday evening the boys went to a friend’s house for sleep-over. The girls asked if we could do something special without them. Originally we were going to ride bikes somewhere interesting, but I was kind of wiped out and wasn’t up for it. Instead we went to miniature golf in nearby Saugus, MA. The girls had a GREAT time! Afterward we had some ice cream and it was a beautiful evening. The girls didn’t feel let down at all by not staying at someone else’s house.
Saturday was mostly consumed with yard work. I tried to teach Chloe and Gabe how to mow the grass, but she was really too small and he was really not interested. So I did it myself. I still dislike my mower and am now trying to figure out how long I have to put up with it before I toss it (or sell it) and buy something else.
We finished off the day with a trip to REI and Barnes and Noble.
I bought a new pair of “sport sandals” for, like 70% off that Liz hates. We have a difference of opinions regarding my choice of footwear. Weigh-in anonymously and let me know what you think.
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Log Entry of the Week
On Wednesday, June 4 at 9:47 p.m., a caller from Sargent Street reported a bat in her house. Sector car assists. Bat sent on his way.
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A while back I upgraded the version of the blogging software in use here at Blogrilla.com and had a bad time of it. Something went disastrously wrong and the database structures didn’t get updated correctly. I had to make the changes manually and I was afraid it would never be the same. I upgraded it this time and it went smooth as silk. I also took the time to update some of the plugins and kicked myself for not generating a cool looking theme instead of the fairly generic one I am using.
Tornado Hits Boy Scout Camp in Iowa, Killing 4
Tornado Hits Boy Scout Camp in Iowa, Killing 4
The article explains that out of 120 people attending a high adventure week-long leadership program 42 are in the hospital and four are dead after a tornado tore through their camp. I’ve been to a number of boy scout camps and none of them have shelters that could conceivably have stopped a twister - many don’t even have walls for crying out loud!
This is a tragedy that calls to mind those three scout leaders who were electrocuted at a national jamboree in 2005.
very sad.
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This is offensive. Seriously. This was not a commentator’s slip of the tongue or something innocuous. I think this is why Obama and the rest of the democrats need to shun Fox News. They need to stay as far away from that feckless network as possible. Last week they were suggesting that the “Fist-Bump” Barrack and Michelle shared could have been a terrorist gesture! How absurd! Wake up people! Fox embodies the worst of the human spirit.They don’t have any news on that channel, just conservative propaganda.
Over before it began
The 2008 Solomon Gardening experiment may be over before it really got going. The boys told me that they saw a rabbit eating something in the garden! They said that it ate the tops off the corn! I hope that’s not true. The corn wasn’t even a week old. I expected that it should be starting to come up any time, so MAYBE they were right.
But where the hell did the rabbit come from?! I don’t exactly live in the rural suburbs will all manner of wildlife.
Unbelievable.
So I am keeping a close eye on the garden now to see if any of my little corn stalks come up. Someone suggested sprinkling cayenne pepper around the edge if the garden to discourage pests. I think I’ll have to give it a try. One rabbit could decimate my very limited harvest.
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We here at Blogrilla hope your weekend was fruitful.
Mine? it was fine.
The girls had their big dance recital on Saturday. So we spent Saturday morning kind of getting ready for that. The girls did a great job with their dancing. They’ve never done better. I’m really proud of them for how well their dances turned out. Chloe spent the year volunteering as a helper for the dance instructor. She would go to her own 1-hour class and then spend another hour helping in Grace’s class. Several years ago, at a recital, she saw the dance instructor thank her helpers by giving them flowers at the end of the recital. Chloe thought that was SO great - I think getting the flowers at the recital was maybe 90% of why she wanted to be a helper. But at the end of the first show, when the instructor thanked everyone she forgot Chloe.
Chloe was so good about it. She told Liz that Miss Janice wouldn’t forget - those other girls must have done something she didn’t. Like, they were “special” helpers or something. She tried to not to be disappointed by it, but it was clear she was sad. Fortunately, after the evening show Miss Janice had a bunch of flowers for Chloe too. I was very relieved for Chloe.
Me and the boys stayed for the 1st half of the recital to see Chloe and Grace dance and then we went home to watch the second Matrix movie. After Liz took Chloe back for the second show, we watched the third movie. There were a couple of scenes we skipped but mostly it was ok. There wasn’t a lot of gore or cursing and only a little sex. So I was there to provide parental guidance and we had a good time.
Its hotter than blue blazes here. Saturday it was 95 degrees with 80% humidity. Same for Sunday. So I decided to get the mowing done first thing in the morning. It took me two hours because I have this new electric mower which I am slowly disliking more and more. I have to keep stepping/tripping over the cord and accounting for where the cord is. Its also on 19″ wide instead of 23″ wide, like on my craftsman 6hp gas-driven mower. That’s like a 20% reduction in size!! I got it primarily so the boys could start mowing the yard. They could make some money and I could catch up on my Margaritas.
Then the cub scout pack had a “bicycle rodeo” where the kids get their bikes tuned up by a local professional. They also go through a sort of two-wheeled confidence course. Since it was still so miserably hot I didn’t want to go, but I had already said we could… and I had to live up to my promise. Ugh. Being a grown-up sucks. Its times like those when I hope my actions speak louder than my words. I explained to them that its easy to keep your word when its what you WANT to do in the first place, but its twice as important to keep your promise when its something you DON’T want to do.
So they did their little bike thing while I continued to recover from mowing the yard and chatted with some parents.
Afterwards I took the family to see Kung Fu Panda. It was ok. Liz didn’t like it at all, but I thought it was fine for a kid-show. Two stars. “The Incredibles” got four stars.
Finally we settled down at home and watched the basketball championship for a while. Go Celtics!! They won handily but nearly choked at the end when they blew a 20 point lead. Whew!
And now the work-week starts all over again. One of my team-mates is gone right now - his mother died so he’s taking a little time off. When he gets back I plan on taking a day off myself. I understand that there is some kind of “moving up” ceremony for the kindergarten on Friday. Maybe I’ll take Friday off and go to that.
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