Barb Was Furious

We went to see Laura's pole competition in Toronto.  We waited all day until Laura's event at the very end of the program.  When Laura did her routine, which she was very worried about, it went great.  The fans were screaming because they loved it so much.  After her performance the people in front of us turned and told us that she was great and should definitely win.  Another competitor came up to Barb and told Barb how great Laura was and how she did just everything perfectly.  When Laura came back to sit with us, the guy sitting beside her said that now he has something else to like her for not just her hair.  When they announced the winners, Laura came third and Barb was furious.  The winner and the second place finisher had done very simple routines and were not exciting.  The audience didn't cheer them at all.  Laura told us that the event had a strange scoring system.  Everyone starts with 10 points and then the judges subtract points for every mistake the performer makes.  The winner and second place finisher did very simple routines without many challenging moves.  So they didn't lose many points.  Laura did a huge number of very difficult moves that no one else was able to do but Laura said she could have had better form and that is why she may have lost points.  Barb was furious and could barely contain her anger on the drive home and for the rest of the weekend.

Videotron

Sarah took us all to the Labour Day football game in Hamilton for my birthday.  My Dad used to take me and Jimmy Parkins to the Labour Day football game every year for my birthday when I was a boy.  Somehow Sarah always gets great seats.  Much better than the seats my Dad used to get.  The game was between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Argonauts.  On the first series of plays in the game Hamilton brought the ball down the field and scored a touchdown.  We thought it would be a good day.  Then when Toronto got the ball on their first play they scored a touchdown on the long pass and run play.  And it didn't seem so good anymore.  The next day Daphne sent me an email with a quote from one of Karen Watson's friends.  It said that her friend was at the football game too and she saw us on the videotron.  She recognized Laura because she had met her at Daphne's house the previous weekend and she said that the person sitting beside her must have been me.  She had never met me and didn't know what I looked like.

iPod Case

I was trying to find a cable for something and started to organize the basket beside my big blue chair where I keep all my electronic stuff.  I dropped my iPod Touch case and an Easter Egg fell out.  Sarah always tells us we haven't found all the Easter Eggs she hides but Barb always thinks she has found them all and is always wrong.

Pants Down

Barb pulled into the parking lot at the pickleball club and saw the Wealthy Barber in the car beside her.  She waved at him but he stayed in his car for quite a while.  Then she realized he was changing in his car into his shorts to play pickleball in.  She had caught the Weathly Barber with his pants down.

Money

I am very lucky finding money on the ground.  When I was at Carleton University I found an envelope with $440 in it.  And when I lived in Cederview in Ottawa I found a $100 bill while walking to my ball game.  I found a $20 bill on the bus in Ottawa and another time I found a $5 bill on the steps getting on a bus.  I am always looking down to make sure I don't stumble over something on the ground.  Because of that I find money all the time.  I even dream of finding money on the ground quite often.  Today on my walk in the park I found a $10 bill and considered myself very lucky again.

Turtle Eggs

When I walk around the park there is a little part of the grass beside the path roped off with a sign saying do not disturb Turtle Eggs.  It says that the eggs should hatch at the end of August.  But by now that date had long passed and there is no sign that the turtle eggs have hatched.  Finally today in mid-September they took down the little roped off area and I guess they gave up on the baby turtles.

Shout Out

Barb was watching the pickleball tournament from the Huntsman Senior Games in Utah.  As she was watching she got a message from her friend Cindy who said she and her husband Willy were watching the tournament too and heard the commentator give a shout out to Barb Taylor in Canada.