Surprised

I had told the guys in New Hamburg that I would probably be back in time for our game Sunday night because I didn't think the Diamondbacks would do very well in the tournament and would be eliminated early on Sunday morning.  I was again surprised that we made it to the semi-finals and actually won some prize money.  I always seem to underestimate the Diamondbacks.

Early Game

The Queensway was closed for maintenance on Sunday morning and we had a early game in Carp.  Barb needed the car. So I arranged to get a ride with Derick a good friend on our team.  We were going to meet him in Barrhaven.  So Barb drove me to Barrhaven and there was absolutely no traffic on the Queensway or the detour around the maintenance.  So we got to the meeting place (Tim Hortons) in Barrhaven early.  Derick and his father-in-law were already there and were eating breakfast from McDonalds beside the Tim Hortons.  So Barb dropped me off, I picked up a coffee and we left for the diamond.  On the way, Derick's father-in-law gave me one of his egg McMuffins because he said he couldn't eat it.  We were the first people at the diamond and we waited around a long time for other guys to show up.  Derick was talking about how difficult fastball was to hit and how tough it was on one's ego.  When the guys got there and the coach wrote the lineup, I was embarrassed that Derick didn't even get to play.  I felt bad for him and having got to the diamond so early.  And I felt bad for his father-in-law, who came to watch him.  It turned out that he didn't play any of the games that day.  His sister was the sponsor of the team. So I thought it was not a great idea to have him sit out the games.

Late

Barb was late for Pickleball.  I was driving her and Julia to play with some of her old friends from volleyball.  I rushed to get there for 11 in the morning and Barb was very upset about the traffic delaying us from getting there.  When we got to the gym, there was no one there.  So Barb and Julia went in and asked where everyone was.  The guy who was running the gym said the pickleball didn't start until 12 noon.  She and Julia weren't late they were an hour early.

Pitcher

I met the guys at the ballpark and they were making rude jokes about our pitcher.  I didn't know why they were doing that and then I found out that that week he had had hemorrhoid surgery and it hadn't been successful.  So he had had a second surgery and he still had stitches in his bum.  I couldn't believe that he was going to pitch for us in the tournament and he even batted for himself and I was very worried when he was running hard on the bases.

Ottawa

Barb and I went to Ottawa for a Diamondbacks ball tournament and I had a chance to have a meeting with my supervisors at work on Friday and Barb got to go to the cottage with her old volleyball friends.  It turned out to be great timing.

Legends

My friends from Ottawa were coming to Cambridge to play in the provincials for the Legends of fastball who are all over 50 years old.  I went to watch on Friday night and the coach said I should come out on Saturday morning in my uniform to help him coach.  After we played a couple of games on Saturday, we had a team picture taken.  I posted the picture on Facebook and my cousin in England couldn't find me in the picture.  She misidentified one of the guys as me.  I thought that was funny until Barb also couldn't find me in the picture and misidentified one of the other guys as me.

Wilmot County

The indoor pool at our park was closed for maintenance.  So Barb decided to go to the County Community Indoor Pool just outside the park.  She had to pay to use the pool but she found it was much nicer than the pool in our park.  It wasn't so hot and there was not as much chlorine in the pool.  So she decided to get a long term membership and use the Community Pool from now on.  She also liked to see all the families with the young kids having fun in the kiddy pool beside the pool that she was using.