Lots to catch up on

This will be a flurry of blog activity..

Friday nite - played baseball to a 8-8 tie. Yea no lights in c-Sport so darkness prevails. Not fun, Joel went 1-3 with 3 RBI but had a off night pitching....gave up 4 runs in 2 1/3 innings.

Ran home and finished up with the house stuff for Saturdays party. Otherwise not much else to say about Friday.

Friday

Wow going to be busy. Getting ready for a party always is. Clean the house, get the food, beverages etc. I also have to clean the garage, deck and mow the lawn.

We did get to go to Gloriosos last night for italians. Man I love that place the smells and sights of the deli area. RAWK!.

Good news?

Dad goes in for his final radiation treatment today. So far so good, next up, chemotherapy.

Tuesday Good news

I meant to get this out yesterday. Dad got his full body scan results back in the afternoon. No other cancer in his abdomen or bones. Finally some good news. Mom sounded relieved more than anyone. I think we all exhaled on that one.

Here I sit, Tuesday morning, not really wanting to start work in earnest.

We have a party this weekend, I am looking forward to but at the same time I am not. Hoping for nice weather to enjoy the outside, get my drink on - but I know I hate all the work behind it. Got a ton of groceries to get, house to clean, menu to make, yard work, etc etc.

Talked to Dad for some time yesterday, he's sounds pretty good. Washing a car! He even got a good 6 hrs of sleep. The steroids keep him pretty wired, hungry too. He told me he had to get the Jethro bowl for his cereal, the regular bowl was not going to do it.

He has not heard or told anyone of the full body scan results. I don't think he cares anymore and does not want to worry any one else. Jenny said he did not tell her anything either. Take it day by day.....

Baseball

Another Monday another night of softball/baseball. Mackenzie's team lost 8-14 but it sounds like they are getting better. I asked Mackenzie how she did:

"How did you do?"
"Good"
"Did you get any hits?"
"how many"
" I dunno"
"how many times did you get on base?"
"I dunno"
"did you score?"
"yea, I think so"

I saw my line of questioning was taking me no where so I went with, "did you have a good time?" "yea". Good that's all that matters.

Joel on the other hand played a close game, way too many errors on the team but enough hits and base running to get the win 12-11 over Fredonia.

JT went 1-3, 1 walk and 1 Run. Got robbed on a nice (if not lucky) catch by the right fielder who had to chase it down and sprawl at the line to catch it. Pitching was pretty good too, strikes out 4 in the 5th inning. Yep dropped 3rd strike, so he struck out the side with 4k's....I almost forgot a nice double play he had. Started the game in center (bfore moving to 3rd and then closing the pitching out). 1 down, 1 on first. Fly ball to center, makes the catch and fires to first to get the guy who did not tag up and had to go back to first for the double play.

Car Updates

Got my wheel back on, Thanks to Bob and the guys at Total Auto Body in Grafton, for the use of the press and other nice tools I just don't have the need to own. Ka Ching!

Saturday, I tore the interior out, wired up a new car stero and speakers. Took my sweet time and had the car back together for baseball last night. That thing is nice and lound and crisp and the ipod control rocks a ton better than the old unit. Just got to get to the final tuning and used to the head unit controls.

Let's see the weekend was pretty busy.

Megan had her baby Sunday. Saturday Emma had a 50th birthday party at Bagg End. Played vollyball, I hurt today. I had nothing to drink while there and still played volleyball.
I finished the civics hub project
cooked a chicken on the grill, beer can style.
I started the car stereo project, that was started, not finished. I really took my time. Almost too lazy about it.
It rained HARD on Sunday. The garden is looking pretty good, actually have tomatoes on the vine (ok they are small, but they are there). Scapes are growing on the garlic (good sign). I did not however keg the beer as intended. If I can get my work done today and get the car back together before the baseball game I might keg it. I wonder if I even have CO2....

Friday NIght Baseball

Fun game at Cascade last night. Looked very stormy and we got 5+ innings in before the lightning get to close and the rain started coming harder. Anyway it was one of the better games played. Joel went 1-1 with a walk and a double. Crunched the first pitch over the leftfielders head for a nice double. That has to be a confidence booster.

Don't break a lug

Don't break a wheel stud on your Civic. It is a pain to fix. This is part one. Remove the knuckle, Next to Bob's shop to press the hub and bearings out and new stud and bearings back in. Then to put it all back together again. Thankfully I have a Genuine service manual for reference and torque specs. Yea, put that torque wrench to good use.

On a good note all the ball joints and CV joints look fine. Not bad for a 10 yr old car.

Almost back to normal

Joel got home from up nort' last night around 11:30 PM. Kiki missed him so much, she stayed up for him and gave him such a huge hug. Today we will see and hear what he did, maybe go through some pictures.

So summer can start. The fighting the boredom the irritation of dad. Should be good.

Stepped outside to get the paper today, it actually feels warm. We should hear from my folks on pops scan results.

Dad started his treatment this week. Full body scan was today, checking for additional hot spots in his bones and abdomen. I am feeling a bit apprehensive about this but better to know now than miss it later.

Joel has been up nort' since Saturday. Tubing and who knows what else. Funny not having him arond for a few days. Plus I had to scoop cat poop twice this week... he owes me.