Baseball, baseball, baseball

My goodness, we've been breathing, drinking, and eating baseball this weekend! On Friday night, we made the pilgramage down to Manchester NH to see the NH Fisher Cats play baseball. They are the AA affiliate of the Toronto Bluejays (interesting since we're in the Redsox backyard). Hugh made arrangements to have our Little League team recognized and a few of the kids went to the game with their parents. The kids got to go down on the field before the game began and were there when they played the National Anthem. Our guys got to hang with the Fisher Cats' first baseman, Chip Cannon who is VERY tall (6'5"). The Fisher Cats won and we all got our David Ortiz bobbleheads - a good time was had by all!




Here's the team photo that they took:

I got a lot of work done on my Betsy sock, the first sock is finished and I'm well on my way into the second. Great design as usual and very easy to memorize.

On Saturday our guys played the first game of the Allstar tournament. This tournament consists of five teams, all from central Vermont with the exception of our team which is the Connecticut Valley Little League South team. Players on the team are from seven of the eight teams - it promises to be a fun season! We won our first game in five innings 16-6 (we only played five innings because of the 10 run "mercy" rule). Sam's playing third base for the most part but will pitch and catch as well. He did a great job at-bat. He got on base by hitting the first ball pitched to them - that sends a nice message! Sam's batting second in the line-up.




Looky what bloomed at home this week - my peonies!

Our daylilies should be out any time - they're our fourth of July flower.

And - tah dah! - I got my new dining room table and chairs. I love them! Our old table and chairs predated by several years both boys - Tom is 15 next week so you do the math. Here's my favorite baseball coach putting it together.



Today's my last day of vacation - it was a fun week of being with the guys, getting some chores done, playing mini-golf and going to the pool. Back at it tomorrow.