This is a short work week, right? Please tell me it is - even if it's not!!! Holy crap, just into day two of a three day week and I'm almost ready to cry. I shit you not folks, it's been misery piled on top of agony, all buried up to its neck in a steaming pile of ca-ca. I SOOO need the holiday!
Speaking of which, we had out annual Boy Scout holiday camp/cookout last weekend. Frikkin' awesome! We cooked six 15+ lb. turkeys, stuffing, veggies, mashed taters, cornbread, candied yams, and several miscellaneous desserts . . . all over open fires and in the wild - not a stove or microwave to be found! That always impresses the hell out of me. It was a fun trip, despite temps in the teens! I even had to make a Deconstructed Turkey again (see this post for details!) Folks are kind enough to donate the birds for us to cook but not always wise enough to defrost them before hand. Well, in this case they delivered us a lovely, 20 lb., block of ice! Not to worry though . . . we're Scouts! We broke out a bow saw, cut that bad boy into pieces and defrosted it over some hot coals for a few hours before tossing into the deep fry pot. Good Eats!!! The Boy ran the camping trip as SPL and he did a damn good job. Everything was taken care of and in place when/were it needed to be. He did good.
Speaking of The Boy, he kicked but on his tryout and made the swim team! He actually surprised everyone (himself included methinks!) when they asked him to show them a second type of stroke. He'd been working strictly on free-style, trying to get his times for a 50m down to where it should be (which he did!) so both I and the friend who'd been tutoring him were both like "Oh crap!" when they asked. The Boy just jumped in, did the backstroke against the kids who'd been swimming it for the team last year, and totally kicked ass! Even the coaches were impressed. On other fronts, The Boy made honor roll in school and he got the highest grade in the school on his P-SAT's - he scored in the top 98th percentile for Juniors taking the test . . . which ain't bad, considering The Boy's only a Sophomore!
Yup, I'm pretty proud of him.
In any event, work calls so I must away! Hope everybody has a TRULY great Thanksgiving. May all the folks you love be near and all healthy and very, very happy!
Later!
2 comments:
That Boy rocks!!
Now go buy The Wife some flowers.
:-)
Congrats on your son's swim team accomplishment (as well as the P-sat, etc.
My daughters (twins - also sophomores) have been swimming for several years now. b4 high school it was a Y swim team and starting last year the HS. Their season jsut started last week with a couple fo non-conference events. I hope you enjoy your son's season as much as I do theirs. While its a long season its usually pretty nice and sociable, too.
The nice thing about swimming is tis a good lifetime sport -- one that they can keep up with for exercise as they get older.
Hawkeye
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