Back at it

We had an awesome time at Tar Hollow last week. Took Thursday and Friday off and drove up - traveling takes so much longer with 10 people. Tyler Swink went with us - thought he would enjoy himself and did he ever. Scott and Dawn + 3kids decided to go this year to and we traveled together. Lot's of bathroom stops but we got there.

Dad found Tar Hollow years ago and the congregation we were attending then (plus a few others) went for three straight years (I think 1991 was one of those years). Lot's of good memories. Last year, Ryan Wagner started putting together retreats but it was open to anyone and was more for keeping in touch and meeting new people. We played paintball, football, volley ball, and other activities, ate great food, and just enjoyed some time relaxing. Eric was there, but he did a lot of work with the activities and food prep. so we did not get to spend as much time as we would have liked to with him. We also go to see Paul and Andrea which was nice. Annette wound up being sick. Ryan and Jenny did a great job preparing the entire thing (with lots of help) and Albert and Cindy got lots of support in the kitchen to help with 2 large meals each day.

The Amusing Race was a blast - I never thought I would eat a live earth worm. And to top the race off, I spent some time in the lake trying to complete the final task. Not on top of the lake, in the lake. My first trip in a kayak was not very balanced so I jumped out. Then Britney dove in to save my life in 2 ft of water :) and then we tried to get the water out but after taking off again I realized that the kayak was still sinking and I tipped it over and swam to a boat that Chad Wolfe was paddling. Ended up swimming to shore where Rance Fetherolf was videoing our team performance and he carried the kayak to the dock. Now we are hoping that the camera and tape are not ruined as there must have been some water that got on the camera.













Did a little fishing with Chad - he had an extra Barbie fishing pole so I put it to good use and caught a couple fish. Look at the size of that catfish - it was really only about 6" long but this photo makes it look huge.







So we headed back home Sunday and what do you know, another potty break filled trip. Garrett really needs to learn bladder control. We stopped within 30 minutes to potty (bathrooms were cleaned and without paper when we left the park) and get drinks. Ten minutes later Garrett had to go again. We pulled over behind a small shed/barn and pulled out his potty seat! Note that he also had a diaper on but refuses to go in it.

2 Posts in 1 Week

Just to blow your socks off I'm posting twice in one week. I got off work about 15 minutes early and went out to mow grass. It only takes about an hour, but I help my neighbor out when I can since he mows mine when I'm traveling. He's been a great neighbor and I try to return the favor when I can. Kelly had gotten back from Hickory and had supper ready when I walked in the door. So now it's 6:15 and I don't have much going on tonight - last resort - post a blog.

Check out the magic #7 for the Dodgers. Things are looking good - hopefully Arizona loses tonight and drops it to 6. I'm not really a huge baseball fan but when my football teams are loosing, I need a pick-me-up. I usually can find happiness in the teams I hate loosing, but even Ohio State's 35-3 lose to USC last week didn't give me the boost I needed. I guess my expectations this year for Michigan football are so low that an OSU lose doesn't mean much.

It's going to be a very hectic 7 days - par for the course since vacation time is coming up. Tomorrow I am going to try to go to one of Garrett's events (he has two things going on tomorrow.) The kid is three and already there are times it seems we have to run here and run there just for his schedule. That is crazy. Saturday we were suppose to have CPR training, but that got canceled so it looks like I'll be at the work day at the church. Sundays are always full - then Monday and Tuesday are packing days, along with mowing again and probably something else will pop up. Somewhere I have to find time to study - I am suppose to teach next Wednesday night at church. Thought I'd give some of you a chance to decide to skip. Oh yea - I've also started a web page for a friend who is starting his own business and I promised him something by this weekend. My blogging time just ran out - I've thought of too many other things I need to do.

Wow - another post (I'm sure faith will be amused since she thinks I'm going to out-blog Casey - we are competitive when it comes to football but not blogging!)

The whole reason I am blogging is to add the Dodgers magic number to my blog. I stumbled across the code for this and thought "where can I try that at?" So their magic # is 10 today, which means that any combination of Dodger wins/Diamondback loses that equals 10 puts LA in the playoffs. They are not that great this year, but good enough in their division. Have to root for somebody this year - Michigan and the Bengals do not appear to be going anywhere.

So the script will not run in this post but it is added at the bottom of the page. I'm a little disappointed in how it turned out but the info is there. Dodgers are up 6-0 tonight so it's looking like we will be seeing a 9 down there tomorrow.

Well, Kelly is very tired so I had better get back upstairs and see if she needs any help. I do have Garrett down here with me so she only has the stubborn child (bless his heart).