Mark's Birthday

 Today is Mark's 76th birthday so as soon as the coffee was done I took a cup down to him. He was already at work in his office in the basement. It was really foggy this morning so much so that we couldn't see our neighbors across the lake. Below is proof.

All of us were here for the walk and we had a good visit. Below Mike is showing Joan the problem with the excavator. He and Spark needed to remove the track to get to the problem. I believe the problem is now fixed and now that 4000 pound track needs to be put back on.

When we turned up the barn drive we saw Berlica coming down on Penny.

A bit later Sarah arrived with Zion, Eden and River. Berlica and Zion took Sally and Penny on the entire 'death' trail. When they came back River rode double with Berlica on Sally while Eden rode Penny for the small loop.

I was cleaning the game room upstairs when I realized the batting machine was not working correctly. The tire inside the machine was flat and would not hold air. Thankfully the last time this happened bought a second tire and tube and it was ready to go. We were able to fix it within a half an hour.

Once that was fixed Mark went right home and ordered 2 more tubes. It really pays to have it ready if we have to change it out quickly. The next big job of the day was to install the cage over the internet stuff. We took a picture of it before we started working to make sure we could put it back together once inside the cage. This job was much more complicated and ended up taking up a couple of hours be we got it done. 

We orginally planned to go to Texas Roadhouse for Mark's birthday dinner but both of us were tired from working out in the heat. We decided to just eat left over hamburgers with one of those vine ripened tomatoes for our supper. After supper we had just enough time to take showers and head to Jacob's park in Farmington to watch Kensley play in the championship game against Canton. We drove through the rain all the way there.  Farmington's 5th grade softball team has been incredible this year and after tonight they finished the season at 19 won and 0 lost. Kensley was the pitcher tonight and we were all impressed. Most innings were 3 batters up and 3 batters striking out. Kensley had the only home run of the night. She slammed it almost out of the park. The video below shows her pitching and at the end her home run.

Their team won 2 medals tonight, the tournament champions and the season champions. 

The game started in the rain but the rain blew over before the game finished. The clouds on the way home were interesting.

Mark wants a rain check tomorrow for his birthday dinner.  I was able to finish typing the second week of our stay at Pleasant Home in June of 1989 but when I thought I posted it, it disappeared. I guess I'll have to do that week over again. I've searched for it but nothing shows up. Guess I must have deleted it by accident.