Just a quick post to keep my avid readers with me.
The All-Star game was a bit boring for my taste. It featured an opening inning great catch by Ichiro, and a later great catch for the National League (can’t recall the player’s name off hand). And there were a few other moments, but mostly I was working while watching.
Yesterday I took a night off from work.
Carl accompanied me on a 6-1/2 mile walk.
We walked from home to the Twin Ponds field where Ashlan’s summer soccer team, The Librarians of Time and Space (thank you Rey), were playing.
This field has been around since we have been in the area.
All of us in the family have played here at one time or another.
The first game Carl saw me play in after moving to Seattle was at this field.
It was called South Central by some at that time, but we are not sure why. It was in North Seattle.
Some extremely cold and rainy tournament games were played by Ashlan.
And it’s the field where Rey dislocated his shoulder by throwing the ball (he was the goalie). No other players were involved, just Rey and the ball.
But now the field is Field Turf!
All of those earlier games were played on a dirt, and occasionally wet dirt, field.
It was wet dirt/sand, not mud.
The ponds, on one side of the field, are still there waiting to grab the errant balls that are not retrieved quickly enough. But it is much improved.
Ashlan’s team lost the game, but they were playing with one less man and, in the end, one less woman than the other team. No problem for Ashlan, just good exercise.
