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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Busy Couple of Weeks

Well it's been a couple of busy weeks since the Chicago vacation. The next week we put down the patio blocks. Hopefully we'll get this thing done soon since we've been working on it since April. We hope to fill in-between the blocks this weekend, and get the retaining wall in as well. Luckily the retaining wall is only about three feet tall, so I'm hoping it won't take as long as I think it will. After that I'll just have to build some steps and we'll be ready to put some grass around it. There's also a stump next to it that we need to get rid of. Anyways, there's still a lot of stuff to do around the yard before winter comes.

One of the guy's I work with, Ken, traded some drywall work for working on my car. He just bought a house and was looking to re-do two of the bedrooms before he moved in. I've spent the last few days over there after work, a couple hours a night. It's a pretty simple deal, It's taking longer than I expected though because of softball two nights a week.

Softball has been going well. I play a lot of second base, which is nice because it's a position I enjoy. Early in the year I played right field, but I was quickly dumped from that position because...well, I suck at playing the outfield. Recently I've been playing some third base because of guys being gone for games. It's definatly a lot tougher to play since most of the batters get more power going to thrid then they do going to second. The grounders have a lot more heat on them. It'll just take some getting use to, but I've done fine so far at it.

Our team started off really hot, we didn't lose a game the first month, but lately our bats have went quiet and we're not scoring many runs. We've lost games, 5-4, 3-2, 4-3, 6-4 which is outragious in softball since most teams average 12 runs a game. We're good defensivley which keeps us in games, but until the bats come around we'll have a hard time winning games.

Anyways, that's enough about softball, nobody cares about that, hehe. Baxter has really been catching the frisbee lately, he reminds me of the dogs you see on TV sometimes. He'll jump up in the air and twist his body in some wierd way to catch it, it's sweet to watch. A few times he's went up and missed the frisbee with his mouth only to land and run under the frisbee and catch it to hit the ground. That's fun to watch!

posted by Dan Epley @ 11:45 AM