Bad Surprise

When I was leaving the Gil Read Tournament on Saturday night, I found that the back window on the Nissan had been smashed by a homerun.  The night before I noticed that a homerun had bounced between the cars in the parking lot about 40 yards on the other side of the fence.  I should have known that a ball could hit my car if I parked there.

I drove home without a back window.  I was stopped by a policeman.  I thought oh no I guess I am not supposed to be driving without a back window.  But the policeman had only stopped me because he thought the car might have been stolen.  After he checked and found that I owned the car he let me go.

I got home and my neighbour was just coming in.  He helped me cover the back window with a plastic bag because it was supposed to rain hard that night.

Barb checked around on Sunday and found a company that would come and replace the window right in our driveway.  It was covered by insurance and only cost us $140.  By Monday night, I was driving my car again to the ball game.

Junior Champions

I went to the Gil Read Tournament in Carp.  One of my favourite teams was playing there, the Elmira Expos.  I was talking to the coach of the team and told him that I was moving to New Hamburg.  He told me that New Hamburg were the Canadian Junior Fastball Champions.

New Cell Phone

I was in the habit of bringing the cell phone to my fastball games.  Unfortunately, I put it in my back pocket.  One day I sat on it and broke it.

So Barb looked on Kijiji to see if we could buy a new cell phone.  We found a guy who lived in Barrhaven who was selling a phone just like ours.  I went to his house to pick it up and pay for it.  He was selling about 5 cell phones.  So I bought two. One for me and one for Barb.  I brought them home and found out the one had the wrong power cord.  So I couldn’t charge it.

I went back to the guy’s house and he gave me the correct power cord.  And then I went home and charged the cell phone that I was going to use myself.

When it was charged, I found I couldn’t use it because I needed a password.  I contacted the guy again and he asked his daughter but she didn’t remember the password.  So I went back to the guy’s house and got my money back.

We were glad that he lived in Barrhaven.  It would have been ridiculous if I had to drive across town to get to his house so many times.

Silver and Bronze

Barb won one silver and two bronze medals in Kitchener.  She was very disappointed because she usually wins Gold.  Again she felt her partners let her down.

First Showing

While Barb was away at the pickleball tournament in Kitchener, we had our first showing.

The lady who came to look at the house said she didn’t like the wallpaper.

Cupboard Space

While Barb was in Kitchener for a pickleball tournament, she took some time to see our new place.  We had not seen it in real life.  We had only seen pictures on the internet.

Barb was impressed with all the cupboard space.  She thought we didn’t have to throw all of our stuff away.  In fact, we had so much cupboard space she thought she might store some of her fabric in the kitchen.

Lamp Ball

Barb cleaned everything she could think of.  She even took down the doors of the laundry room and pulled out the washer and dryer to clean underneath.  She asked me to help her put the doors back up because it was very difficult for one person.  While we were putting the doors up, we hit the lamp ball in the hall.  It fell on the floor and we were relieved it didn’t break.  Then because it is round, it rolled on the floor into the hall and hit the bench and broke into pieces.