A Year of Change

They’re out early again, Ty at 12:15 and Jag at 12:25. Not sure why, I quit asking a long time ago. Then on Friday Jag’s out a little early and on May 1st, they have no school. It’d sure be nice to be a kid again.

Lori’s working away at work and so am I. I have another quarterly review at 9am and should be done by hopefully 11:30. Tomorrow I have my last two also in the morning.

Baseball practice is back at 4pm and then we have games Friday night, Saturday morning, Monday night, Thursday night and Friday night and next Saturday too. That means we have Sunday and Wednesday off and that’s it. 6 games in 8 days, wow.

Today is Earth Day just so you know. Time to run as we need to clean more in the basement for the carpet guy. Have a great day, God Bless.

This morning at 6am I’m leaving for Vail. I need to do a few things up there as we haven’t been up in a while. I’ll be going to the DMV to get license plates for Lori’s car, returning the boys snowboard boots that we rented for the season and stop and see a key account. I should be back in Denver by 11am.

Last night we had baseball practice while Ty was at the Science Fair with Vinny. Mom (Lori) showed up to cheer him on and then they stayed until 8pm as there was a cake auction to support the school or something. All I know is Ty came home with a red velvet cake.

Tomorrow the boys are out early and then again on Friday. Something to do with more needless testing. We also have the carpet guys coming in to prep tomorrow and then will install the carpet Thursday. The kitchen looks good, Lori did a great job.

It’s 5:03 now so guess I’ll get moving so I can get on the road. The tunnel (Eisenhower) is closed until 6:30 so I don’t want to leave too early. Hope all’s well, God Bless.

Last night Lori gave me some Benadryl so we all overslept this morning. It’s now 6:35 which as I’m sure you know, means we’re running late. We did get the basement and kitchen all painted though and now the clean up begins. There’s more painting to do but the two big jobs are out of the way.

We hit the baseball cages yesterday with the professional batting machines. Jagger worked in a pitching session and then hit the machines. His coach and his son showed up as I let them join us to use the machine which Jagger’s pitching coach let us use for free. Normally they run $50 an hour to use. His son jumped in there and we had the machine turned up to 52 miles and hour which is a pretty fast pitch but with Jag, we worked out with the speed turned up to 66mph! He’d hit 60mph pitches before but never 66. I don’t think we’ll face any kids that can throw that fast at this age, it was pretty impressive. Again he looked like a man compared to his teammate who looked like a boy. His coach was quite impressed as Jag even hit a perfect bunt on request off the fast pitches. Hopefully we’ll have practice today as it didn’t snow as they said it would.

Time to run, lots to do, for today and for the future. Hope you all are well, take care and God Bless.

I think Lori has painted or stained the kitchen cabinets at least 3 times now and we might do them again. She’s not sure they match the back splash. We did finish up the basement with Lori painting the baseboards while I did the ceiling. We decided to do it the same color as the walls and it looks good. We might just leave the kitchen the way it is, we’ll see.

I’m taking Jag to the batting cages today at noon and both boys need to clean up their rooms. We’re supposed to get more snow tonight and tomorrow and then a break Tuesday and Wednesday until more rain arrives again on Thursday and Friday.

Lori wants to get a storage unit and I think she’s probably right. I think I’ll put a bunch of things on Ebay and see how that goes. We have so much junk that we’ve accumulated over the years. If you had 3 hours to get out of your house, what would you take and what would you leave? I think if you look at things like that it’ll give you a whole new outlook. Another way to do it is if you haven’t used it in 6 months, why do you have it? We’re not talking heirlooms or sentimental stuff but just junk. It’s been a good exercise no matter what happens.

Everyone is still sleeping except Mojo. Guess I’ll go, have a great day. By the way, there’s a great series on tv Sunday nights called A.D. about the bible. Watch it if you can, God Bless.

Right now, as the title says, it’s sort of sunny outside. The rain and snow is supposed to stick around until Tuesday morning though so it can’t be far away. We’ll need to get outside today to get some exercise.

Last night was the big school dance “A Night in Paris”. I guess it was a huge success and the Principal told Jagger that this student council is one of the best ever. I dropped him at school at 7:55 and picked him up at 9:30pm. He’s now wearing some of my shoes and thankfully I had a nice pair of black Ferragamo’s in my closet that he could wear. He wore a pair of grey slacks and a white shirt for the party.

Lori stayed home yesterday trying to kick her headache. She’s still sleeping and hopefully will wake up headache free. Today I need to paint the basement ceiling, the wine cellar and a spot on the ceiling in the laundry room as well as finish the trim in the basement. Tomorrow I’ll try to stain the kitchen cabinets. The house is really coming together. Next Wednesday they show up to do the carpet prep and then Thursday install the carpet in the basement.

It’s 8am now and I think I’ll head to the gym. Ty’s the only one up and he’s upstairs on the computer. I-70 about 2 miles from us is closed due to a bunch of car crashes. There’s lots of snow and ice and fog out there, especially when you go up even a few hundred feet in elevation. What a mess as some places received more than two feet of snow! We do need the moisture though so that’s the good news.

Time to run, hope everyone has a great weekend, God Bless.

Well, we have a few inches of slush or heavy wet snow outside but it could have been much worse. 15 minutes up the road they have over a foot of the slushy mixture, same with down south. Lots of schools are closed. Baseball is off again today and we’ll take a break from practice until Monday.

Tonight Jagger has his school dance that he and the student council have been preparing for for weeks. I need to run to the dry cleaners as he needs to take his dress clothes to school as I guess he doesn’t come home until around 9pm.

Lori is staying home with the blessing of Dr R as she’s had a headache for a few days now. It better go away! Say a prayer. That’s it, time to run, have a great weekend and God Bless.

I’m sure our baseball game will be cancelled at 5pm as it’s a cold and rainy day. We overslept and I need to get the trash out so I don’t have time to write much this morning. I’m also getting the oil changed in the truck at 8am. We’re really tired so time to run, hope all’s well, God Bless

It’s 6:30 so we have little to no time this morning. Yesterday Harry accomplished a lot and did most of what we had on our list. We have a new storm door in the back, he and I fixed the fence and gate on the side of the house, then he fixed the drywall, and a few other odds and ends. Today he’ll try to repair our hardwood floors and then be done. I guess he needs to be back in California by Friday night and is planning on driving all day Friday. It was fun to have him here.

We have baseball practice tonight and scheduled an indoor practice as its supposed to rain. Lori is going on a walk this morning with a friend before work and might stay home as her neck is sore from painting. The carpet guy came by yesterday and although we’re getting a deal, it’s still going to cost $1289! Ugh.

That’s about it, time to run, have a great day, God Bless

Last night we played baseball and boy was it cold with the wind blowing hard off the mountains. We lost by a couple of runs but more on that later. It’s supposed to rain and/or snow on and off for the next 4 days or so meaning today is our last nice day.

Ok, here we go. Lori made it to the game by 7pm which was the starting time and Ty and his friends played hard the whole game in a field next to ours. We had a rough start but then tied the game with an inning to go. The coach and I had a different philosophy as he elected to play a couple kids who previously had errors which then cost us the game. Our other assistant coach was also confused as to why our coach played these kids. Now to be honest, there were plenty enough errors earlier that cost us the game (none by Jag!) but we were in a position to win and with the late roster moves, there’s no way we would. I woke up to three texts this morning apologizing for his attitude and thanking me for all my help. I know he was trying to put certain kids in pressure situations to see if they could work through it but if we would have managed to win (like in real baseball) we would have won. He told the team after the game how disappointed he was in the individual play with little to no teamwork and then asked me if I had anything to say to which I simply said, “guys, if you as individuals continue to make errors, we’ll just need to bench you, we cannot continue to make errors on basic plays we have practiced over and over.” My point is, we’re past the ‘everyone gets to play and everyone gets a trophy” stage. If you play well, you play, if you continuously screw up and have poor technique, you sit, simple as that. As for Jagger, he played great and looked like a real ball player up there. If things don’t change, he’ll need to move on to a more talented team. We basically have 4 guys out of 13 that can’t hit, then another 2 or so that’ll swing at bad pitches but I can work around that. What killed us was lazy plays by some kids trying to one hand the ball when hit to them or a couple kids (one in particular) that cannot catch a fly ball. That kid dropped two in a row last night and the coach insisted on playing him when the game was tied. I’m all for helping him, and have tried, but would not have played him in a tie game with 20 minutes to go. Oh well, things could be worse, time to let it go so that’s it. I’m meeting with the coach today and trust me, that will not happen again.

I’m worn out from rehashing this so time to go, take care, God Bless.

Yes, more baseball today as tonight at 7pm until 9, we have a game. Yesterday we went to the cages and worked on some hitting. We set the machine at 60 mph which is pretty darn fast when you’re standing in there waiting for a pitch. Both boys (Jag and Jake) were hitting almost every ball after they got their timing down.

Meanwhile Lori was painting and distressing the cabinets in the kitchen until she ran out of paint. Some of our cabinet doors that Harry replaced the hinges on, are falling off, as he had to grind down the screws as the doors are pretty thin, and now they’re not holding. Not sure how we’ll, or he, will fix this. He’s supposed to arrive at 8 this morning but then again, he was supposed to work Saturday and Sunday also. Anyhow it’ll get done when it gets done. The cabinets that Lori finished off in creme look pretty good. You have to really try a few different things and then look at it before you can tell what looks good and what doesn’t. So it’s a trial and error thing so to speak.

It’s 5:10am and I’m yawning as I didn’t slept too well. I think I was sliding around on our new sheets! Rain and wet snow arrive Wednesday and will wind down Friday night.

That old bag Hillary announced she’s running for President yesterday. She basically just thinks it’s her turn and acts so entitled. She’s for one, too old (8 years ago she said McCain was too old and she’s even older now!), she’s a liar, look at history, Benghazi, her emails, even all the way back to Whitewater, she’s accomplished nothing except being the wife of Bubba, and has no new ideas. Now I’m just as much against having another Bush in the White House. I mean does anyone really want to go into another Bush or Clinton era? I sure hope not. She will play the “I’m a woman” card, but that’s about all she has going for her. Personally I don’t think she has a chance but you can never underestimate the stupidity of the uninformed American voter. God help us.

That’s it, have a good week, God Bless.