Here I go getting behind again on my blogging – I’ve been busy and work and staying up late worrying about how to keep my fantasy baseball team in first place. So instead of getting into too much about last weekend, I’ll just do a summary. There were enough things that happened that I need to talk about it, and I can’t write anything new until I get that out of the way; otherwise it would feel out of order. Not that anyone cares about that, except me, for some reason.
Katie had her last day of Kindergarten on Friday – pretty amazing that she’s on to 1st grade. We picked her up after school and drove to the Cities on Friday night to stay at my brothers place. Katie slept nearly the whole way down (that girl can really sleep in a car) and Amelia even slept a good chunk of the way.
On Saturday morning I headed off to play golf with my brother and dad at a place in Hudson, WI called Troy Burne. It was a very nice course – it was designed by Minnesota-born Tom Lehman who is apparently famous for courses with a lot of bunkers and narrow landing spots in the fairway. I was just glad it didn’t have very many trees. I shot decent enough – I think I had 6 pars, which is pretty good on that hard of a course.
The main event for the day was the Twins game – I had tried to get tickets to the Twins game the first day they went on sale and after trying many combinations, the only weekend tickets I could seem to get were for this game against the Rangers in the Family Section. We parked downtown in one of the adjoining parking ramps and quickly made our way into the stadium from there. We were in the top deck, but fortunately we were under a room that holds the lights, because it was 90+ degrees and we stayed in the shade the entire game. People across from us in the upper deck in left field were baking – they either had their shirts off or they were out of the seats walking around somewhere, trying to avoid the hot sun. The game was pretty quiet for the first several innings. In about the 4th inning, we made our way around the stadium to check it all out. Katie had been asking to get her face painted, so we got that done for the girls on our tour. We stopped at the very cool-looking pro shop, which I didn’t get time for on my opening day trip. We got the girls a couple things and they were pretty excited. We were just about back to our seats when Delmon Young hit a 3-run double that put the Twins out in front for good. The girls were very good sports and had fun throughout the entire game. Becky thought I cheated by giving them everything they wanted (cotton candy, face painting, shirt/monkey from the store), but what’s a few bucks to get them excited to come back with me to another game. I only wish I had gotten more seats so our whole extended family could’ve come.
We headed home after that and went to a friends house to play most of Sunday. We started working on a new garden project most of Monday. We uprooted our flower garden in the front and moved it into a new, bigger area in the back. We settled on a triangular shaped garden in the very northwest corner of the lot. We started digging up the garden and then realized it would be a lot easier if we used a tiller. I fired up our little tiller, but that was going to be a 4 hour job at the rate it was going. We asked our octogenarian neighbor Cal if we could borrow his industrial strength tiller. He let us and we started to make pretty good progress. I got a little stuck with all of the dirt piling up, so we asked him for some help. He came over and took care of the rest of the tilling himself – working at it for a good 30-45 minutes. We had the dirt all tilled and ready to go. Later in the week we’d get more dirt and move the flowers from the front to the back.
That sums up the weekend – it was a great time and very nice to spend nearly the entire weekend outdoors.
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