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A Saturday in the Life of Tristan

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

I took a little heat, on Facebook and at work for the last post. I certainly wouldn’t have posted that video on YouTube if Tristan had been injured.  So to make amends, here is a typical Saturday in the life of Tristan.

10:00 AM: T-ball game.  Tristan batted twice, scoring once.

5:00 PM: After riding 1.5 hours in the car, then sitting through a long country wedding, Tristan dances with his sister at the reception.

7:30 PM: After eating a fabulous amish dinner at Yoder’s, but right before feeding a goat, Tristan kisses the goat.

Don’t worry, Sunday will be just as busy. We’ll relax next weekend.

Interesting Weekend – Sunday Part One

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Sunday morning, I woke up at 6:00 am and prepared for my morning run.  My training plan prescribed a five miler.  Each morning, I run past two gray cats.  They never get scared or run away (although sometimes they scare me because I don’t expect to see them).  One of the cats is missing a back leg.  As I rounded the corner onto the street that they sit on, a car comes by and hits one of them.  The driver killed the three-legged cat right in front of me!

Although he was dead, I did attempt to locate the owner after my run.  I must say that it is strange ringing someone’s doorbell at 7:00 on a Sunday morning.  I didn’t find the owner, but I did find the neighbors who had been caring for the cat.

After that, I went home and told Kimberlie that Sunday wasn’t going to be a good day.

Tristan has been being a great kid lately behavior wise.  He earned most of his magnets on his responsibility chart, so we decided to take him bowling as a reward.

We headed south on 41 towards the much-nicer-than-Macon bowling alley in Warner Robins.  As I was stopped at a red light, some idiot rear-ended me and knocked me into the car in front of me.  Once again, my CR-V (which is not even two years old) is All Boomed Up.  The at-fault driver didn’t even have a driver’s license.  Let’s hope he has insurance.

I may post damage pictures later.