Austin’s been OK, and the kids are great. Both kids had birthdays, seems like it happens every year...(FL grandma...where are you??) time for a brief recap... John is a TEENAGER – O.M.G. as the kids say – he sat for the SAT and ACT last month, his team working on a mechanical engineering competition just won first place locally, and are going to the state finals in Corpus Christi, he tried out for his schools’ golf team yesterday and did OK. Thomas won his school Science Fair last month, regionals are this Saturday…unfortunately he broke his arm playing on his awesome new bike, which will keep him off the baseball field this year, but he’s meeting his team today… The girl doesn’t feed me enough, but we get out and walk a lot – it was in the 80’s yesterday – I slept all afternoon.
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| John's team - his foot is visible in the center - he's a dead cat...don't ask...you can see the weight stack on their structure. I'd tell you how much their structure weighed and how much it held, but I'd have a crazy cat, rat and dog after me for spilling the beans out of the poke (follow that...) before regionals... mmm...Chick-Fil-A |
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| If there are birthday, there are cake (and Chauncey) nearby.... |
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| Cake and a cast - it's a kid's dream!! |
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| Updated 2/24 to add John's birthday :) Look out world, he now has a phone and he's no longer a tween... |
The dad is another thing – he’s been weird lately… the whole Austin thing hasn’t really caught on with him yet – the work and golf are ok (I even think he tried to play chess again last month), but I think this is the farthest he’s ever been from concrete and baseball in his whole life, and he’s like 300+ years old in dog years… He needs a hobby, or maybe just to pick ONE… I’ll grab a rope and see if he wants to play later…
There was a biology experiment in the pool for the last couple of months – I think it was part of Thomas’ science project. I knew it was a bad scene, man… Bark, get outside, stay close to the wall, head to the garden, head back – close to the wall, bark, head back in, sleep… lather, rinse, repeat.
Dog stream of consciousness…cool…
Arf.
