With The Swing Of A Bat

What a weekend.  We had plenty to do, baseball, overtime, the wife's birthday.

 

Starting Saturday I worked the morning at home, mowing and cleaning and family stuff.  Then a nice dinner at 3pm (corned beef and cabbage) then off to work till midnight.  Nothing going on there but a running dialog on Meat Loaf and his place in music history (I think he is an oft over looked genius).

 

Sunday started with the wife's Birthday but nothing special because a) I never had time to pick up her gift and 2) the boy had a sleep over at a friends house and the wife and I slept in late.  When we finally got moving we headed out to the baseball fields for the Championship Tourney.  We did alright winning our first game but lost the final game before the championship due to bad calls and a change in venue.  We played hard and tied it up but went so late that it got dark and we had to move across town to the lighted fields.  We lost it in the top of the 9th when the scored 3.  The boy had a great day, hitting two to the fence, nice and deep and made some great defensive plays. One as catcher he threw out the runner to 3rd.  As they came off the field he was crying, I thought he was hurt but he said he was just glad he made the out at 3rd.  The head coach looked at him and said, " That's what I love, competitiveness!!"  He at one point did the full extension behind the plate to snatch a foul ball, it bounced out of his glove as he hit the ground with a big whooshhhh, nice hustle!

Thankfully we were home by 9ish and done after 9 hours of baseball.  We slept hard and woke up late this morning, me to the Y to work out, the wife to work and the boy to school.  All in all a great weekend.  Now if you will excuse me I have flowers to buy for the wife, part one of the post birthday gifts.