The day started off with me taking Peggy to the airport at 6:15am. Being Sunday, traffic was light which was nice. I washed the truck and hit the grocery store on the way home so I made it back home around 8am. Before we knew it, it was almost 10am and Jag had to leave for his first baseball game around 11:20. He, the misses and I took two cars and headed out to the ball fields. I had my NFL fantasy draft at 1:30 so I had to leave early but first wanted to go meet the new team, coaches and help him warm up and watch as much of the game as I could. I wanted to stay but this is the 17th year of our league and it’s been scheduled on this day for months. We have two people from out of the country and others in various states (like me) and most guys in Seattle. Meanwhile Mom would stay until the end and drive him home after the game. Jag was fine with it but I would have rather stayed anyhow.
Of course right after I left, our guy who was playing second base, made some fantastic plays. Turns out he got all 3 outs in the inning! The first was a high pop fly he raced for and reached out and caught and then threw the runner out at first before they got back to the bag. Next up was another fly ball that he also caught! The misses said some parents in the crowd yelled out “we’ll keep him” as he was new to this team and no one had ever seen him play before. Mom said it was great as he was then instantly mobbed and congratulated by all his new teammates. He also was apparently the only guy to catch not one, but two fly balls during the game. I guess all other fly balls, not hit in his area, were dropped by other players. We’re so happy for him and I took him (and Ty) to Dairy Queen for dessert after dinner as a reward. When he arrived home he came downstairs to tell me and the entire league heard him as I was on speaker phone talking through the computer for our draft. Everyone cheered him after they heard the news. It was a great day for him and all of us!
We cooked up some chicken and lamb chops for dinner that I picked up earlier in the day as that’s the boys favorite meal these days. It does have to be the long french cut lamb chops though, not those short ones! The youngest has a bad cold and was up periodically throughout the night. Someone always gets one the first week of school and then usually spreads it throughout the family. The boys have no school today as they’re still testing other kids.
That’s about it, maybe the misses will post more later. God Bless.
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