Hard to tell just how much snow is out there as I haven’t been outside yet, but it’s probably 8 to 12 inches right now with the snow still coming down. The snow is going to end sometime tonight so we’ll probably pick up another 3 or 4 inches. It’s not 2 or 3 feet but 16 inches is still really a lot of snow. It’s all white outside everywhere you look.
Most churches are closed too so it’ll be a day of staying close to home. It’s somewhere between zero and 10 degrees depending on where you are which suits Mojo just fine.
Yesterday Ty went to Vinny’s and Jag and I went to the batting cages and hooked up with his pitching coach. Before you think it’s just me touting his talent, his coach says he really has “the stuff” and is built like a pitcher. Apparently most kids when they throw the ball have the ball come out of their hand with their hand on the side while Jagger stays behind the ball the entire time. In short what this means is his fingers are the last thing touching the ball when he releases it providing lots of spin and movement on the ball. That’s how you get curve balls and sliders and are able to move the ball around. There’s lots of technique to it but once you get the basics, you can then throw all kinds of pitches. Anyhow apparently Jagger has this down pat naturally while most kids at his age struggle to do what he’s doing. No matter how he does, the important thing is he’s really loving baseball and talks about it or now does some drills every day. He needs new cleats (shoes) and some other gear too as he’s really growing. It seems like he’s grown 6 inches since January 1st! All of this now has Ty thinking he might want to play baseball too which is great as he has the same ability but is actually a little stockier than Jag was at his age. So maybe he’ll play this Spring too.
It’s 8:45 and it’s really coming down hard outside now. Wish I could post a video of it as the flakes are thick and big and the snow is really dense. The boys are hoping for a snow day tomorrow! Sure am glad I’m not going to Houston tomorrow. Ben just rang our doorbell so the play day is starting but first Ty has some homework to finish.
We watched a great movie last night, St Vincent with Bill Murray who should win an Oscar but I don’t know if he was even nominated as I don’t follow those award shows much. Anyhow it was a great movie and he did a great job.
I made chili yesterday which was a good idea considering the weather. Groceries are so expensive these days with everything up 5 to 10%. You don’t really notice an extra .50 cents here and there but the final bill is substantially higher that it was a few years ago. As an example I came home with 5 or 6 bags of food yesterday morning and the bill was $365! The only meat I bought was some chili fixings, some flank steak, one rib eye and some bacon. I could have gone without buying anything as I keep us pretty well stocked but didn’t want to dig into our reserves. I did take Ty for some cereal last night and the shelves were pretty bare at our local store. Imagine if there was a serious disaster or something that would stop trucks from delivering food, lots of people would be in real trouble. They just announced that our local hospitals urgent care is shut down too, wow!
Time to run, Jag is shoveling some of the walk to get the paper for me, what a good kid! Hope all’s well, God Bless.