Sloth Notes
Important safety note: if you are standing on temporary scaffolding with your goggles on, iPod cranked up loud and one hand holding the next steel piece in place, do not scratch your bare leg with the welding torch no matter how badly it itches, especially when the torch is currently spewing flame.
Alex is a few weeks away from a perfect school year of straight A's. So is Kelly. Isabel draws very nice cats. If they were graded, I would give them A's too.
My outdoor soccer team won the Championship.
My left foot is nearly healed. My right foot now has a very similar injury and hurts like hell. Overcompensation i guess. I am playing very good soccer right now, despite the pain.
The angel's location in Davidson should be completed in two weeks. I am to meet with the landscape artist to make sure we're on the same page.
Isabel gets out of school a week from tomorrow. Summer is right around the corner.
Kelly's team won their game tonight which makes five wins in a row. Kelly was 3-4 and made three nice plays at second base. The infield is really playing well together right now. The third baseman and shortstop trust Kelly and fire the ball to second for force outs. Our catcher even pulled off his mask and caught a foul ball tonight. Pretty amazing for an eight-year-old.
I repaired my riding lawn mower yesterday. The drive belt snapped, the fuel line was leaking, and the blades needed repair. I tracked down the spare parts and then Isabel and I fixed everything. Running great again. Grass looks really good.
I pitched to Isabel, Alex and Kelly at the park today. All three of them were whacking the ball. Then I let Kelly pitch to me with the machine and I hit with her little bat. I put Alex and Isabel behind me and took a couple of real swings. Third pitch I put over the two tennis courts, over the ten foot brick wall into someone's backyard in the patio homes.
Kelly watched the ball sail over the courts, waited for it to land, turned back and looked at me with an eye rolling, "Dad-deeeee."
"What?"
She shook her head. "Now you have to go get it."
cool Dad-deeeee!!!! you're building so many memories with them, i think it's amazing!
you really should stop hurting yourself with flames :)
Posted by: Stef | May 15, 2008 at 05:29
Pain and joy seem to come together for you. Me too, but not at such extremes.
Posted by: brettdl | May 15, 2008 at 08:26
I really hope you survive this project! :)
Be careful with, ya know, the fire and sharp things and such.
Posted by: arthist99 | May 16, 2008 at 11:10
How many hours are in your days?!
Posted by: kevin | May 19, 2008 at 08:39
How many hours are in your days?! I seem to be stuck with the traditional, and completely inadequate twenty-four.
Posted by: kevin | May 19, 2008 at 08:40