Young's visit Holland.

For the first time the Young's visited the land of Tulips. I thought it was amazing to see tulips lining the streets everywhere you looked. I was able to play euchre for the first time in the LaBarge family tournament. I came in fourth. Now i have been in online boot camp for the last week trying to set a strategy, which for this time worked pretty well. That was fun. I got to bowl in Dave's youth group outing which was an overnighter. I got five games in before I called it a night. Two times I held the lead, but someone around three a.m., who was impelled by 18 mountain dews came in with a 230. The weekend had it's funny moments. My favorite is 1/2 percent milk. This milk is native to only Michigan, I guess. Never heard of it before. We are the dairy state you know. I think we should know about our dairy products. Don't worry. Soon to grocery stores everywhere. 1/3 milk, 1/100 milk and 2 3/4 milk. Look for it.

Bowling season roundup.

Well the season is over. I would like to report that we won the championship, but that is not the case. While it was a good season, I feel sorry for the guys because for them it was an opportunity that comes not very often. I bowl with three guys who average under 150. Over the course of the season it all adds up. We struggled down the stretch, and just didn't have it in the end. Championship night the lanes broke down and the night didn't go all to well, and it seems like an excuse, but it is so easy to look for those when things don't go well. Your focus is lost, but it takes stronger person to fight through it and get it back. We couldn't. On the flip side I finished with the high average of 197, high game of 280, and second in series at 721. One of the other guys ion the tam finished third in high game with a 264. Our team finished first in series with a 2534. So it was a successful season. This weekend I am off to state to see what I have left in the tank. Saturday is singles and doubles. Sunday we bowl team event. These guys I have bowled with in our league over the last couple years. Even though there not on our team, it is fun to bowl with better competition.

Thoughts and Prayers.

This is just a quick thought and prayer for the families and friends that lost loved ones in the shootings at Virginia Tech University. While alot still has not been answered, it all seems so senseless I guess. It just goes to show that you should live every moment to it's fullest. Nobody is guaranteed time here on earth.

Opening day part two.

Well as promised here our the opening day pictures. I forgot one key component that day, more batteries, but we still got some good ones. The game was a great time. it was warm sunny. Things we don"t equate with baseball in April. It was fabulous game as well. Ben Sheets pitched a complete game two hitter. At one point in the game he retired 22 batters in a row.

This is to be the first of several games this year with scheduled stops in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Chi' town.

Experiment gone bad.

You know how when people first baked things or made things, several of those " ideas" came by sheer accident. Well at Oscar's yesterday someone mixed our burgundy cherry with our lemon berry. No one is sure who did it or why, but they decide it was a good idea to run the custard like that and sell it under the alias of lemon cherry. Now I know you are probably watering at the muth right this moment, but don't be fooled by the name. It was like looking at someone who mixed the red and yellow play doe in kindergarten. It tasted real nasty. Real nasty. There are some things nobody should mix. This is definitely right up there.

This stuff really happens.

So I am working last night at the custard stand. A lady pulls into the drive thru and precedes to place an order. As she pulls toward the window to pay her car dies. So I get summoned to go help push the car out of the driveway. Well this was a brand new Chrysler 3000. Sorry not up to speed on my car makes and models. I ask her to put the car into neutral. she was definitely unsure how that was going to work. So I helped her do that. I pushed her to a parking spot. To which she didn't say thanks or anything of that nature. If by now you haven't guessed the car problem , let me lay it out for you. She ran out of gas. That's right folks ran out of gas on a new car. She says to me, I had no idea it was that low. Now maybe being a guy, and a weeeee bit paranoid of running out of gas and being stranded, but what is one of the top two things you do when starting your car. I look at my gas gauge. Call me crazy. That's what I do. Now I am not trying to bash women at all. So please ladies don't come after me like it's a witch hunt. Don't you look at the gauges on the car. Maybe not all of them. Doesn't the gas gauge concern you at all. Well in just talking with this lady, who surprisingly wasn't blond, I understood how it could have happened. So she calls her husband to come get her. He was only 30 miles away. So he was not pleased as I am sure you could guess. she gets off the phone to tell me her husband was upset and that what she did was bad for the car. You think? No gas, no movement in car. Also you might get stranded in a place which is not so nice. The lesson we learned here tonight is always check your blinker fluid, windshield wiper brake pads, and lastly just make sure you have some gas, or go to the nearest gas station and fill up.

Anybody say Chinese water torture.

So I come into work today. All pumped from opening day( more later. Efforting the whole picture thing) and what should I walk into a puddle by my desk area. Now I have been working there awhile now. It does rain a lot. All of a sudden it appears there is a leak in the roof that drops through three floors through the grating down on my floor. Oh and the best part is it is right at my area. All day now it will be drip, drip, drip, drip, on my head. I thought work was torture enough. Now this. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

opening day part 1

well today is opening day at Miller Park. Another season of high optimism, followed by injuries and shotty play, combined with the fact we can't beat Pittsburgh(are you kidding me), followed up by another losing season, meaning massive depression by years end as we watch the Cardinals, Yankees and others battle for the title. OK so maybe this year will be different, right? I am not going to hold my breath. Besides nobody looks good in that shade of blue. I will be there today. So I do hope that the season goes well. I am excited to watch the game. October was a long time ago. So here is to the tailgating to all the brats I can put away. The game encounter a bit later with, some pictures hopefully.