two day pass

the word of the weekend was baseball without a single doubt.
the days and nights revolved around this good old, all american pastime we love so much.
our team was victorious friday and should have been sunday as well.
if only we'd remembered the lucky lanyard...if only the ump would have worn his glasses...if only one of the better players hadn't been pulled from the game at a critical time due to over-hydration...if only we'd had fewer errors and a better groomed field.
t. bone may have had his best game ever...his best game yet...friday.
now the team just has to win under the lights tomorrow and should.
no pressure at all.
whatever the outcome...it's been fun and i'm proud of all the boys - big and bigger.

after much time spent on fields, in dug outs and in the stands, there was plenty more summer goodness to be gotten.
always...always time with family and friends.
friends new and old.
enjoying sugar snap peas straight from my aunt's amazing garden and fresh-picked lettuce so soft and sweet it's hard to believe it's good for you.
and a pig roast even if we opted for the less identifiable and equally as tasty roasted chicken.
my girl ate 3 whole chicken drummies lickety split!
time for reading, walking and talking, and swimming.

the weekend ended with a splash in my in-laws pool.
the water was as warm as the air.
that'd be 95 burning hot degrees.
what can i say...we're in the middle of a wave here.
yet we had fun playing marco polo, having diving competitions and keep away.

the van was unusually quiet during the ride home.
t. bone and miss bit were zapped from the activity and the heat.
the littles surprisingly refrained from a game of i spy as we passed many a field full of life on the way home at twilight.
all i could see were fireflies flickering and then fading away...
just like the last two days.