Libby, Amy, and I went to see the Paw Sox last Thursday evening. It was free baseball cap day, so we made sure to get there early so we could get free caps – thanks Rhode Island Lottery and WEEI! While the Paw Sox didn’t win (hardly – they lost 9 or 10 to 1), the game itself was a blast! Some photos:
Megan and Amy each pose with Sox, the female Paw Sox mascot (yes, there are two).
Me, lurking behind Paws, while he was signing little kids’ programs. Yes, I’m a dork.
My wiffy and our great friend!
Me and Paws. I swear, I didn’t shove any kids aside to get this photo. At least, not too viciously.
Playing with the tilt-shift function on my camera – made the field look pretty cool! And yes, our seats were great – right behind home plate.
Amy and I had such a great time at the game that we decided to base our summer vacation partly on seeing minor league baseball games. The other part? Based on my 40 in 40 list… but you’ll have to wait until the vacation is done for me to tell you what fun things we’re planning on doing!
I have had better days than today.
Our flowers are in bloom, with a vengeance.
Yellow and white (daffodils and tulips)
Purple and blue
And some of my favorites, the white bleeding hearts
There are more flowering now – many more tulips, the pink bleeding hearts, the invasive bamboo, the invasive pig’s wort (not likely to give us flu, I’ll have you know), and the invasive bishop’s weed. I love the flowers but the weeds? I could totally do without those.
So how did I do on my resolutions from last year? Not as good as I’d like to have done. I read a ton, scored a couple of goals in hockey, and grew out my hair. As for reducing screen-time, walking the dogs every mornings, biking to work 3x/week, blogging twice a week, and finding/hiding geocaches… let’s just say that I fell a little short on those goals. We didn’t get the tv/cable/router/printer/stereo setup figured out either and I didn’t finish the home office. But on both of those we made other adjustments that have compensated somewhat… maybe I can talk Amy into getting the tv setup finished this weekend!
My resolutions this year are more modest.
- Keep reading – at least 50 books
- Geocache – at least 20 finds
- Hockey – score two points
- Bike – more (which requires getting up earlier) (NTS: get gloves and velcro straps)
- Move – start lifting again
This year’s numerical summary:
- Books read: 88
- States visited: 8 (NH, VT, ME, CT, MN, WI, FL, NJ)
- Countries visited: 2 (St. Martin, St. Maarten)
- Hockey games played: 62 (most in the summer)
- New gadgets: 4 (iomega eGo hard drive, iPod touch, Flip video, MacBook Pro)
- Dogs: 2 (I can never seem to get Amy to agree to any more)
- TV stations we get with hockey on them: 15 (VS, NHL Network, NESN, 12 on Center Ice Package)
- Geocaches found: 15 (oh gosh, that’s lame)
- Political candidates I voted for who won: 5 (Obama/Biden most important!)
Happy 2009 to you and yours from me and mine!
Librarygrrrl and I decided we needed to mulch this year. We also needed some loam to finish off our garden plot we created. Thursday, before the expected wet Friday weather, I had a WHOLE BUNCH of mulch and loam delivered. Two cubic yards of loam and 6 cubic yards of black mulch from Landscape Depot in Framingham, MA.
Although my back has been angry at me, and I knew my PT would be angry with me, I started to shovel…and shovel…and shovel! I moved about 1/3 of the loam into the garden area and moved on to the mulch pile. I had a method to my madness. I first shoveled all the mulch or loam that had not landed on my carefully laid tarps. And then I worked the pile in such a way that when the rains came, we could cover the remaining piles. After 5+ hours of shoveling, over half of the mulch was also laid around the house. I wish I took pictures of the initial delivery. Many neighbors stopped to comment on the size of the thing! One, who has worked in delivery of such material, was confident that it was quite a large 6 cubic yards. Needless to say, my math was either way off or he was right. The mulch more than adequately covered the areas I had measured, and we still had almost half of the mulch left.
When librarygrrrl called me to pick her up from work at (surprise, surprise) the library, I literally collapsed in a pile trying to pick up a shovel. Oops, guess my back was angry at me.
Friday, the missus took the day off from work while I substitute taught. Much to my surprise, when I came home – the MULCH WAS GONE! She had finished off the pile AND folded the tarp – and for those of you who have had to fold those huge tarps, that’s no small task. The yard looks smashing and I’m sure the little picture-taker will snap some photos soon.
In the meantime, the main point of my message is to wish little sleeping beauty a wonderful, glorious and truly HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
40 in 40, friends, general | Megan 07/13/2010 | 
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