Category Archives: Personal

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The Baseball Saga Continues…

I have a AA game tonight.  It is against the Indians, again.  We have three games in a row against them.  At our last meeting, we were destroyed, there really isn’t another word for it.  The final, as I know … Continue reading

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Start of the ball season (round 2)

Had a very good baseball practice last night.  Most of the team was out, which was a good thing.  I had two players missing because they were at the final try-out for the travel team.  I could have been a … Continue reading

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Healing – Personal and Baseball

It has been just over a week since I had to make the hardest decision of my life and put Zeus down.  It was a bit of a hard week, for both myself and Blondie. Blondie still isn’t eating quite … Continue reading

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First umpiring gig of the season

I have returned to umpiring this summer, albeit in a very part time basis. With coaching two teams (well, coaching one, managing one), I have very little spare time. On the days that I do have off, I don’t want … Continue reading

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And, it got worse…

I am sort of at a loss. My AA team last night took a huge step back.  I can’t really describe it in any other way. We started out well.  We battled in the first inning and gave up on … Continue reading

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Starting to get there

Last evening, my AA team had batting practice in one end of town and then when that ended, the AAA team played in the other end of town. So, I started the night at batting practice.  I didn’t have to … Continue reading

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Back to the routine

Back to work today.  It will be good getting back into a regular routine.  I just got in from walking Blondie, not a long walk but about a kilometer or so.  I can tell she is still not back to … Continue reading

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Life goes on…

Saturday and Sunday were sort of tough days. I posted my tribute to Zeus on Facebook and a lot of people said how sorry they were for my loss. Zeus wasn’t just a dog, he was my first dog and … Continue reading

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A tribute to Zeus

As regular readers of my blog know, one of my dogs is Zeus, a half Sheppard, half American Eskimo.  He looks like a German Sheppard puppy, just with a curved tail. That is Zeus shortly after I adopted him, the … Continue reading

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It was a dark and stormy night…

Well, not really…  It was a day of drizzle which postponed my baseball game last evening. That was ok, I had a relaxing night of watching some tv and hanging with the he dogs. I went to bed at the … Continue reading

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