long hot challenging day

wonderful :)

practice started early even though just six of us showed up and i pitched practice not sure if i was pitching in the game and semi-awake, a hard line drive got me in the chest as my instinct to protect my face took over and the ball smacked just below the glove into the interior aspect of my right pectoral muscle and now i have a seriously purple and swallen softball sized bruise in that spot... owie... two swings later and another shot rifled at me, but i caught that one... practice, aye?...

the game was challenging as the outfield kept making errors, balls bouncing out of gloves and throws offline... the other team might have had 2 or 3 runs, maybe if there were fewer errors, but they got 13 and worse, our team did not hit at all... i was on base three times, though twice on errors, but nobody else was hitting (or getting lucky) consitently, so we lost 13-7... then the hot blazing sun toasted us as a few of us stayed to try to raise funds for the team...

finally, after six hours in the beautiful florida sunshine, it was off to the other game and i was feeling the fatigue big time... jackson and i spent an hour cooling down at a friend's watching some football, and then, into the game with some new players, first game of the season and it was against the second place team from last season and the champion from the season before... we beat them by coming back in the last inning with about nine runs and won 16-13... we were amazed and it was fun, but i think we won just as much because we were having fun even when we were behind...

when we got to the field there were three police cars talking to people and a couple of cars were broken into, people leaving bags on the seats of their cars... sucks that people steal... and after the game we went home and ate kind of a haphazard dinner as cooking was too much work and i am gonna sit here nodding off in front of the tv until i crawl into bed... much fun today...

hope your day was as much fun as mine :)