Geez. It seems that another week has slipped by and nary an update from me. :-( Let me try to recap...

Liz's mom left on Monday and Liz was left with a bit of gardening to do. She planted some more flowers Monday afternoon and she's been nurturing the rosebush she put in all week. It seems that we're giving it a lot of water, but it just stays wilted. On the up side, it doesn't seem to be getting worse, but it doesn't seem to want to really take hold. I guess we'll just see what happens.

Liz and I made it to the batting cages for a while on Monday. It was nice to see that they're working again...kind of. That place is such a dump - I just wish someone would make a good one. The only reason we still go to those cages is because they're the only cages in town.

Tuesday night, Liz and I made it to the ball field for a while. We didn't do a lot (it was just the two of us). I worked on my pitching for a while and we worked on her footwork at first base. Pretty low-key, but we were there for an hour or so working things out.

Wednesday night, I had basketball with the guys again. We had another gorgeous day for playing ball. It was a little windy, but, besides that, it was perfect. The basketball is getting a little better, but there's still an awful lot of wheezing going on. ;-)

I also called up a topsoil place in town to see about getting some dirt delivered. We built that retaining wall in our front yard and now we need to get it filled in. We picked up some holly over the weekend to plant, but had nothing to plant it in. Anyway, the guy told me it would be over $80 to get a yard of dirt! I couldn't believe it. That comes out to over $3 per foot. Unreal. So, Liz and I took it upon ourselves to pick up 30 bags of topsoil (1 foot each) from Wal-Mart for $1.30, each. We got more dirt than we would have and payed less than half as much. Regardless, we were out in the yard until about 9 that night emptying bags of topsoil into our retaining wall.

Yesterday was a rather long day. Besides work, I had an appointment to see my doc at the clinic. I've had a bump on the top of my head for a few months now and Liz wanted me to have it looked at. So, I went yesterday. Turns out it's nothing to worry about - it's a cyst from a plugged up oil gland. Anyway, they said things like that can eventually get infected, so I'm gonig in Monday to have it removed - it sounds like it's about a 10 minute procedure, which would be shorter than my appointment to have it looked at.

After work, Liz and I were out planting our holly. For the most part, it all went in okay. We gave 'em a lot of water and now we'll just have to see how well they take. Hopefully, all will go well.

Then, after my work day was over, we had our first softball game last night. As I expected, we got clobbered. I can't say I was surprised. Last season, we had it all too easy - we were easily one of the best teams in our league and we seldom had to work to win games. Because of that, we were moved up to the next division this year and I don't think it sunk in how much better the other teams would be until last night. I can't say I was surprised, but it seemed that most of our teams was. There were a lot of missed plays and general laziness on the field. Maybe now, people will start coming to practice once in a while and actually try to work at practice instead of standing around having a siesta. Forgive me for ranting, but I was pretty disgusted last night after our game.

Anyway, that just about puts a close on the week. It's Friday (woohoo!) and Liz and I will be headed back to Clintonville this weekend. We've got major celebrations this weekend. It's Mother's Day, of course. In addition, Nate turns 25 today and Dad's birthday is coming up shortly. I think we're going to try to celebrate all those things this weekend. It should be fun.

Well, I suppose that's about it for a recap. Liz and I are going to try to get everything done quickly today so that we can get on the road and get home. See y'all then.

Later,
Corey