Found my patio umbrella stand!

Made really good chicken on the grill. From LeRoy Meats of Horicon. Gotta get more of those.

Now using autocad to create dodecahedron nets for Joel's geometry class.

The Mother/Wife is a way the rest of the family will play. or something like that.

Had a nice waste of a day Saturday. Playing golf. Need I say more? It was fun we had a good time, Joel did not do as good as he or I for that matter would do. He did OK, we will blame it on the new clubs. That's Tim's excuse it will work for us too.

Mackenzie had a fun time hanging out with the Haley and Alissa. Even went swimming in the 65 degree pool.... Crazy girls.

 

Good thing is, Its Thursday. Bad thing is it's Thursday. Nice to know the weekend is close but I still have a lot of work to do. Gonna be in Madison tomorrow.

Joel played the last of tennis for school on Tuesday - Lost in the sub sectionals for state, 6-3, 6-2 against Ripon. Only won 1 varsity meet, did not lose a JV match. Guess what, tennis ended. Baseball started Wednesday. At least between hoops and tennis we had 2 weeks.

Mackenzies softball games start next week too. The screwed up the shirt order, how hard can that be?

Speaking of softball, I continued my spectacular comeback with a 1-2 and a walk. Not real spectacular, spectacularly bad maybe. More like spaztacular!

Mom brought a cherry pie over - mmm, mmmm that's good.

Looong Weekend

Ah other than a few work snags the weekend went nicley.

Friday - Let see dinner ate La Chimnea, Tracy slept the way home and that was then end of Friday. She can't hold her tequila. 2 Margaritas Hahahaha.

Saturday - let see, the weather kinda was on and off. Emptied the storage locker for the year, Did some grocery shopping, picked up a nice market umbrella for the deck. Only problem is, its a bit bigger than the old one and wont fit in the table and stand. So we search for a stand-a-lone-stand. Or not.

Sunday - another wok snag. nothing like giving me a pit of the stomach feel when my cell phone rang. Anyway - We got a bunch of plants and vegetables and turned the gardens and plants. Grilled a few pounds of pork shoulder. Kiki went to Boltonville rain days and about 3 hrs blew through $25.00, no food, just carnival games. Hey she won a gold fish! Mom cam over, we worked her for in the garden for dinner. Steak, hamagers salad, potatoes etc. Had a few strawberry 'ritas. (none for Tracy) Had a fire in the Chimnea and enjoyed the evening and company.

Monday - Joel's day. Went to Dicks sporting goods and got him his early birthday present. A Set of gold clubs. We hit balls in the yatd and at the range. It was fun and that kid can crush the ball. We will play a round next weekend. The fellas better look out. Oh and the goldfish is dead already. Between the cats and Kiki standing over it it every 15 minutes, it never had a chance. Kiki was sad. Now we have a dead fish on the counter. She can't decide how to bury it.

Joel also has sub-sectionals for tennis tomorrow. Bus leaves for Portage at 6:00 AM. Yea, no school to play tennis. How does that work. Where did I go wrong when I was in school?

Weekend

Well here it is - Friday. I don't have a lot of work, but what I do is critical for what it's worth. Tracy and Kiki are going to the Titanic at the MPM for a school field trip today.

Joel lost another Varsity singles meet 6-1,6-4 Gave em a scare in nothing else. He has a small tournament on Saturday and Sub sectionals for state next week. Really proud of him for the the dedication to this sport he only started playing a year or so ago.

Other than that, not much else going on, plant some plants, mow the lawn, empty the storage locker and relax a bit. Summer is right around the corner.

Oh I did get 'discharged' from PT so my neck while not 100% is pretty close and I don't have much issue anymore.

Update to the GTMW - we are o-fer at least 8. Not cool.

Joel had his tennis meet yesterday. Lost varsity 6-0, 6-0 and won JV 7-5.

Total Auto Body softball go mercy ruled 13-0 in softball. I had the hardest swinging bunt ever. Only 1 at bat in 5 innings that is how bad we played.

Had my last PT visit for my neck. I am at about 90 % feels pretty good. My quads are in severe pain still from running in softball.

GTMW

Denied again - at least 0-2 on submissions for the 2009 Great Taste of the Midwest.

Have a beer on me

Let's see, last post was last week. Almost another week.

Joel lost in tennis to Milwaukee Lutheran 6-2, 6-2. Then beat the JV squad in a second match.

Mackenzie had the spring concert and I was home room dad for the night. Keeping those rambunctious little crazies in their place until go time.

Joel has a few more home matches and the the season ends.

I have softball tonight we will see how that goes.

Either I am lazy or just don't care too much. I meant to update this on Wed nite and last night.

Let see in Softball we lost 2-12. My quads still hurt but nothing like last week. that's a good thing - I went 1-3, I think that makes me 4-12 on the year. Decent if it were hardball, not so good for softball.

Joel had a tennis meet against Kohler last night - lost the no 1 doubles match 6-0, 6-0 and he played a singles match against one of the varsity alternates and won 7-3. It was fun to watch but not sure how you act at a tennis match? Not like a baseball or basketball game.

Not much else over yesterday. Just updating the grill log.

I did get a garmin gps from REI on Saturday. Pretty slick unit. Playing around with it and loading maps for Canada next! Geo caching anyone?

Ever have that feeling when you have something that's got to get done and your not sure how its going to go, but it goes well and you get that feeling of relief. I just had that for a project for work. Made my whole day look better.

Happy Mothers Day

So to break with the tradition that is as long as I have known my wife, she did not go meet mom and the sisters at McDonalds and spend the day with them.

She spent it with her family and foremost - me! Well the kids have a lot to do with it.

Made breakfast, cleaned the house a bit, Joel drove Tracy to Chipotles and then I made pizza on the grill. Mom came over for some nice company. Had a few frozen margaritas. First of the year, with first pizzas of the year.

Yummy.

Nice day for a Rummage sale!

doors opened at 8 and by 9 we have made $15.25, Mom is working it like a pro!

Just an old guy. Had the second softball game last night. Neck and shoulder are not too bad. Shagging fly balls in warm up my quads just cramped so bad. I couldn't run much more than a trot. Played a few innings and took myself out - 0-2. Not a lot of fun there.

Tennis Win!

Well the team did not win, but Joel's No 1 doubles team did!. Congrats! 6-2, 6-4. You can find his results in the Journal Sentinel Online or in the sports section if you actually get the paper.

Now if that lousy school rag would give the tennis team some ink.

Sunburnt head, steaks on the grill, yardwork. All an indication that summer is around the corner

Kiki's Spring Recital

Not to be out done with proud pop moments, here is Mackenzie playing the pumpkin boogie during her spring recital. Way to go!

When you are the top Varsity doubles team for Kewaskum, you make the Milwaukee Journal. Very cool, another proud pop moment for me.

Well I got my mail -lottery entries in for the GTMW for 2009. Fingers crossed we get them!