May 11: Week #3 at home

It has been another fun filled week with family, friends and, of course, good food. Larry went to his old work and had lunch with all his lunch hour buddies. I had lunch with a couple of the girls from my old work (at a Mexican restaurant, of course).

Grandson, Austin, had a vocal spring concert at his school. Here he is with a fresh hair cut (although you might not be able to tell) and new clothes.







Nathen had another scrimmage Saturday, however, only 4 from his team showed up. We had more in our family than he had players - so we all played. Larry, Austin and Trina played field. Willie played 3rd and short. Rebecca played catcher which required lots of old, unused muscles and I got the job that required all the brains - first base coach. Between Rebecca at catcher and Willie at 3rd, they managed to put out a kid that was trapped between their bases - pretty impressive for parents. Nathen pitched but then had to catch when Rebecca took a foul ball in the ankle in the 3rd inning (the kid shin guards wouldn't fit her). She took the picture of Nathen from a lawn chair behind the backstop with her leg resting on another lawn chair and an ice pack on her ankle.

We had dinner with two couples from our ham radio hobby (at a Mexican restaurant - surprise) and then attended the ham radio meeting for this month. The subject was how to convert your TV to HD with the converter box. Real geeky stuff but we did learn a few things.

Thursday, Larry and I joined two cousins of mine on my Dad's side of the family at T.G.I.Fridays. They hadn't read any of my blog so I'm sure they're busy now catching up.

Today, Trina had two regular league volleyball games so we went to see how she's playing in her old age of 30. She's still good but has a problem sometimes with the 8' net. Girls play on 7 1/2 ft. She did the River Festival 2 mile run in 24 minutes (sister-in-law, Cindy, ran the 10K event) . Trina has to run 1 1/2 mile in 14 minutes for the Wichita P.D. Guess she'll be working out a little more. She plays next weekend in two events: the coed volleyball on Saturday and girls doubles V.B. on Sunday - both in the sand. Neither is associated with the River Festival which is happening all this week.

Friday afternoon, I went to lunch with a couple of good friends and later that afternoon, had my ears "punched" as one of them put it. They were pierced many, many years ago but I let them grow back. Now I can pick up some of those really cool looking ear rings that I see in my travels.

Larry is suppose to ride with Andy, Trina's police officer boyfriend, Monday night. I'll let you all know how that goes but there probably won't be any pictures unless something so wild happens that it shows up in the papers.