What the ????

We are having a wild week.  A week where we have too many activities, too many obligations, too many things going on.  Most of it is just normal in the summer, but as I told Jim this morning, summer is kicking me in the pants.  It has been so much stuff to do, that I was sincerely looking forward to Thursday evening because we had nothing to do, and then Quincy's coach moved her games to Thursday and I had a moment where I legitimately thought I might cry.  Instead I laughed and said "of course he did!" I can't make this stuff up.  :)  

Tuesday evening, Harper had a game in Pomona.  I love summer, and rarely will you hear me complain about the heat, however Tuesday was brutal.  It was literally 99 degrees, the ball park in Pomona doesn't seem to have a single bit of shade, there was absolutely no breeze.  I had a moment where I thought I might actually melt.  The dug outs there are cinder blocks.  I was worried about the girls.  Harper rolled her eyes several times as I kept bringing her more drinks!  Luckily, some storms were brewing, and the sun eventually was covered by the clouds, which helped!  We got the game finished just in time for storms to blow through.  The good news is it wasn't as hot on Wednesday!  

On a completely unrelated topic, a story of my  nerdiness.  Jim and I have been making a rock garden where there used to be a flower bed in front of the house.  I had agreed to this project on the condition that we could get the pretty beach pebble rocks and not just common gravel or landscaping rocks.  Jim said he didn't care, so we have been buying the rock at Menards, and it is sort of expensive, and they ran out.  We found some at Home Depot but it was twice as much money.  Yesterday, as I was picking the girls up at the Baldwin church, I happened to notice that the hardware store across the street had some pallets of rock.  I stopped to look. and they had this stuff called "pond cobble" for half of the price that we had been paying.  The stones were the right shape, although they were smaller.  I decided to buy some.  The bags were pretty muddy, so as we were dumping it, Harper and I decided to wash it.  We were blown away with how pretty it is!  I was so excited.  Saige and Harper were excited too. So yes, I paid money for rocks, and I washed them too!  Now my hope is that they still have some more bags today, because I am going back for more - we are getting close, but not quite there!  I was so excited about it, I couldn't wait for Jim to see it.  I gotta say, he was not nearly as excited as I had thought he would be.  I guess the "prettiness" of rocks is a girl thing?  Or maybe a nerd thing.  He was happy that the rest of the project can get finished at half the cost though! 

Last night, Saige had a game at Harveyville.  In our league there is early game - starting at 6:45, and late game which starts at 8:30.  Saige had early game, so we finished our projects, did chores early, and made dinner early.  I busted it out the door, because she needs to be half an hour early to warm up, and I needed to pick up Jim and make the 45 minute drive to her game.  We pulled in right at 6:15 and parked right beside one of the assistant coaches.  I took a second to breathe, and then got out of the car where the assistant coach said "wow, you guys are extremely early!"   Ummm Saige had the late game.  He was there because his other daughter, whom he also coaches, was playing in the early game.  Which meant we were 1 hour and 45 minutes early.  In Harveyville.  I do not know if you have any idea where Harveyville is, but it is in the literal middle of nowhere Kansas.  There is nothing in the town except a park and a bar.  There is nothing close to the town.  Gas is almost $5 a gallon, and if we went clear home, we would have had to turn right around and come back.  We opted to go eat at the bar, and then let Saige play at the park while Jim and I used the dumpster there to clean out the car.  Since I had lost my key in the car several weeks ago, and since we found it as we were cleaning, I can't say it was a complete waste of time.  Plus I got to spend the whole evening with a couple of my favorite people.  

I am thankful that it was cooler weather as we were hanging out for such a long time!  It was worth it, as Saige had a great game.  She had a couple of really nice at bats and pitched for several innings.  I enjoyed watching her.