Negligent Blogger

Wow, I joined Facebook and have let this blog slide. Facebook is alright, not sure I am all about posting every thought to a site for my 'friends' which is a term to use loosely. Some truly are and some are just people I know but haven't interacted with in years if not decades. For family members reading this I was located by Dan Schuh on Facebook. Brought a lot of good memories as he was one of my best friends from Kindergarten to 8th grade. In high school we just drifted apart. He had different ideas and people he wanted to hang around with and it was not the same as mine. Too bad to let that get in the way. I want to send him an email and see if he would like to catch up. I bet he's got a lot of stories to tell.

Anyway that leads me to the negligence of this blog. I had every intention of adding to this the past week but never found the time. I have been screwed up with my sleeping for the past few weeks and it hasn't got much better. Shoulder pain and medication are the two main reasons. That and having enough time to sit and actually gather my thoughts. Joel an Mackenzie have been so active this summer and I have traveled 2 out of the last 3 weeks, it has been tough. As I sit here typing this the entire family is sleeping. Nice quiet time before I begin doing all the other things that have been neglected the past few weeks.

Mowed the lawn last night and ran out of gas with a small soul patch left to mow. Arrgh. Finished my last basement of the year last week before fathers day. Got home to realize how lucky I was as my trailer blew out the valve stem on the tire as soon as I got home. Maybe it was Dad looking out for me somehow.

Speaking of fathers. Fathers Day may be one of the best days of the year as far as I'm concerned. Makes me so very thankful for my wonderful wife and awesome kids, I often think they are the only reason I am around. This year was nice. Mom came with us to Moe's Irish Pub for a brunch and then came home to just relax under the (super cool) umbrella on the deck.

Baseball is in full swing at the Turk house. Joel practices every day has a game almost every other day unfortunately the split JV/Freshman squad is 0 fer the season and Joel does not like the coach. Even so he's sticking with it. Doing some pitching, some good some not so good, batting around .300.

Mackezie's team is now 3-1. She has improved so much in a year. It's actually getting fun to watch. Again no one like this coach either. In fact he's kind of a pud. I went to watch/help on Thursday night and ended up instructing more than he did. I don't think he said 10 words. Made me think I could do this again if they needed me. I told the coach 'sorry for taking over, just a hard habit to break' plus when you do nothing to help correct batting and fielding problems....ugh

Oh yea Kiki is in summer school. Acting class, Math and Tennis. They just put on a play yesterday for readers theater. Very cute. Joel is also playing summer league basketball for the JV season. He seems to really enjoy that quite a bit.

Well time to get going, weeds to pull and spray, trailers to fix, tools need to get cleaned and put away, cars washed etc etc etc all the things I neglected in the past few weeks because I was making $$ in a basement...

I'll try not to be so lax on this, it really is a good outlet for me. Even if no one reads it.

Cheers

Updates coming I promise.

Test of text blogging

Weekly Update

Schools out! I would have posted last week but I was in Columbus and Cincinnati. Worked in the basement on Saturday, but not Sunday.

We actually read the Sunday paper on the deck this morning. The first time in 2009 it only took to the middle of JUNE. What a crap summer so far.

Kiki's softball team is now 2-0. Winning over Batavia 17-9. Playing stellar 2nd base she was part of 2 force plays and threw out 2 runners at first. Way to go.

Week review

Well here it is another week and less blogging..

Lets See..

Kiki won their first softball game 21-13. It was pretty impressive. She plays 2nd base and went 2-4 with a walk.

Joel is back to baseball, is playing Left, Center, 2nd and just about every other position. Can't wait to see how this goes.

I did not play softball, I visisted Jenna, her surgery went well and she should go home today. Yea!

Had my first physical since high school. Gave blood for my first ever cholesterol test. Got a tetanus shot. You know they are not supposed to give a shot through tattoos? Red ink especially. They had to find a area in between to give me the shot. Kinda funny.

Lastly and sadly my grill may be on its last legs. The ash catcher system rotted out and they don't make parts for this 15 yr old grill anymore. Weber what were you thinking? So I am debating trying to fix this one or go all out with a new one. Then the great debate, gas or charcoal. Maybe I get a gas and fix the charcoal one. I really have to see if I could do pizza and smoke stuff on a gas grill. Plus the gas grill I really want is uber expensive. Maybe I will drag this last basement gob out another weekend to help pay for that.

Oh yea that's right the weather is nice and I am back in a basement. Fun stuff, hope my neck and shoulder hold out.