My older boys won their baseball league with a 6-1 record and both made the allstar team and the tournament is this weekend. Unfortunately, my middle son had to have a emergency surgery on June 2nd, and probably will not be recovered enough in time to play.
The "Tick Mitt" I'm granddog sitting and our daughter brought me a gift. The tick mitt. Wipe it on you and or your medium to short haired dog and the ticks stick to it. Then place in zippered mesh bag and place in the dryer for 10 mins.. Well the pack and I took a woods walk they ran through everything. Got back and wiped them down. Dang the thing works!
Hubby is looking for a zero turn. He can't decide . So he writes down all the options he found that fit his criteria. Put the names on separate pieces and put them in his cap. Then told ME we get the one I randomly pick out. Ya setting me up for " You chose it!" When anything goes wrong...lol Well I pulled out the heaviest duty with the least price. I think a Bad boy????
Putting the first coat of black paint on the loon decoy tonight. Finally got the neck joint perfect last night, last coat of primer proved that. I just have to keep my patience and tell myself I am crafting a decoy, not an art piece. When I am done I may roll it around in a burlap bag with other decoys for a couple of weeks maybe shoot it once so it matches the other decoys on the mantle.
Hill Billy air-conditioning. We do not have air, not even portable. We do use fans and heavy quilts on south and west windows. When temps go into 90's I close everything up tight early a.m.. open up the basement door ( center of house) place a tall and short fan at the top of stairs and draw up basement air. House stays around 72..... when sun goes completely down and temps cool a bit basement gets closed, windows opened and outside air circulated. Gotta love a basement.
We ended up taking 5th place out of 18 teams in the state allstar tournament. A great baseball season for what likely be my last time coaching my oldest. He will be playing school sports from now on. He had an incredibly dominant pitching performance to get us into the quarterfinals. 6IP, 11K, 0W, 4H, 4R. Three of the four hits he allowed were infield ground balls that should have been outs if the throw was earlier. Only one hit was a legit base hit into the outfield. Unfortunately, he was out of innings to pitch for the tournament after that game. He played SS in the game we were eliminated and had a 6-3 GO and an unassisted double play of a line drive and getting the untagged up runner at 2nd. Season stats: Easton Regular Season: IP-13 K-32 W-13 K/BB-2.46 ERA-3.46 H-2 HB—1 R-5 Hitting Single-7 Double-1 Triple-1 SB-15 R-6 K-2 RBI-7 AVG-.642 Easton Tournament IP-8 K-14 W-2 K/BB-7.00 ERA-4.5 H-5 HB-0 R-4 Hitting Singles-7 Double-1 W-1 K-1 Avg-.800 SB-9 R-4 RBI-6 Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
Wife brought cranberry walnut loaf back from Publix in Florida. Toasted with a cup of coffee on misty wet Saturday morning, perfect.
My son dropped off his dog with me to watch him while he spent the weekend in Duluth running Grandma's marathon. Last thing I said to him was good luck, try to beat a Kenyan, talked to him this morning he ran it in 3:32 we had a chuckle he said last half mile there was a Kenyan in front of him, he caught and passed him. That's my son.
Came home to 2 little monsters that order me around. Surprise the boys are sleeping over, oldest grandson tells me he is staying for 100 days.
Picked my first # of blueberries of the season. All this rain and warmth has them huge and sweet. We finished up the strawberry/rhubarb sauce last night over homemade icecream. Having the blueberry sauce over same tonight. So good! My sugarfree home made icecream.
Been working on a loon decoy, I am not artistic at all zero talent. It is going well I am practicing being patient. I painted on 8 white dots on the upper neck last night and that was enough. I work a little bit and then look at pictures of loons to get scale and placement.
Tilt and trim motor on the go fast boat was not working so I pulled the boat. I disengaged the hydraulics and wedged the motor up so I could see the trim motor. One look at it and I said hell no, not today they tuck that motor in tight no idea how to even access the mounting bolts. I did check connections and jiggle wires, power getting in and out of the relay. In an act of futility I decided to try for a miracle, I tapped the trim motor with a hammer a couple times. Bingo it works, sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.
Life at the lake will never be the same shortly, boys are up from their naps waiting for their parents to show up, the boys are ready to go out on their tube for the first time behind the go fast boat. I am about to put a lot more hours on the boat, it will be every time they are here. Just like I planned. Holy crap, it was not long before the boys had me speeding up, 2-1/2 hours later they were ready for supper. couple tired little boys tonight, me too.
I went to town to get gas while grandma was making breakfast, I come back and the boys are eating pancakes with their life jackets on. I guess we are going tubing right after breakfast.
