Last Baseball Games of the Season + BBQ with Grandma and Papa

 Yesterday, Evan played his last two baseball games of the season.

He played for his regular team and they asked him to play on the higher level, 16U team.

Here's a video of his hit for his 15U team.

Today, Morry and I walked around the lake.

Then, we picked up Salt Lick for us and Grandma and Papa.

We met at their house (in the backyard) for an early dinner around 4:30.  We wanted to meet early so we could get together before it got too dark.

Everyone had a great time, including Chewie.

After that, we did our weekly H-E-B shopping trip.

Now Morry and I getting ready for the week and the boys are playing video games.

Here are some pictures from today.

Marucci

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

As crazy as it seems, the boys only have one more week until Thanksgiving Break.  The school year seems to be going by quickly.  I think after that Thanksgiving, the boys only have three weeks until winter break.

This morning was a busy morning for me. I didn't have any meetings but there were a bunch of things at work I needed to complete.

The boys had school as normal.  One of Noah's teachers is dealing with family issues.  And in the new COVID world, they don't get substitutes.  The kids get an assignment to work on without any synchronous instruction. 

Rachel went into teach at ATA today.  At lunch, she met a mother from baseball who lives near there for a nice walk.

After school and work, I took Evan to a set of batting cages called Marucci Clubhouse.  We met Josiah and his Dad there.  For the first 30 minutes, Josiah's dad, John, pitched to the boys.  The second thirty minutes Evan and Josiah hit off of the pitching machine.  They have a thing there called HitTrax.  They also have it at TRPD.  John gave a suggestion to Evan to get his back hip around and Evan immediately set a personal best for distance a hit traveled and exit velocity of the ball.

We stopped at Simply Pho on the way home and got dinner.

The boys are new upstairs and Rachel and I will sit down and watch TV.

Until next time...

Monday & Tuesday

 Yesterday I got stuff done around the house and did lesson planning.  In the afternoon I Zoom tutored.

Evan normally has a baseball lesson on Monday, but it was moved to Thursday for this week.

Today,  I Zoom tutored in the morning and then went to my school.  On the way home I made a few stops - Walgreens, the library, and H-E-B.

In the afternoon I Zoom tutored and Noah had his Hebrew lesson with Grandma.

Evan got a ride to practice, so that was nice that Morry didn't have to drive.

I took a walk after tutoring.

When Evan got home we ate the smoked porked that Morry made for dinner.

And now, Morry and I will sit down for a little bit. 

Fall Weekend

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Yesterday, Evan played two baseball games in Liberty Hill.  That is about 45 minutes, or so, northwest of the city. Rachel's cousin, Lauren, and her family live there.  Rachel's Aunt, who is going through chemo, has been staying with them.  Rachel decided to join us to watch Evan play and also visit with Aunt Susan.

Rachel dropped Evan and I off at the field for warmups while she went to Lauren's.  She sat in the backyard with Aunt Susan.  She said Aunt Susan looked good.  Her coloring was good and she seemed in a good mood.  She had shaved her head as her hair has begun to fall out.  Rachel said it was a nice visit.

In the two games, Evan was 4-6 with several RBIs.  He played third base the entire first game and catcher the entire second game.  In the first game, he had one play at third base.  On a steal the catcher threw a little wide of third base.  Evan caught it and made a nice dive to tag the runner out.  The coach was very pleased with Evan's athletic tag.  At catcher, only one runner tried to steal on Evan.  Unfortunately, the shortstop dropped the ball or Evan would have thrown him out. 

We come home for a bit, then went out and picked up dinner.  We got dinner from Cypress Grill.

We didn't have anything that we needed to do today.  So Rachel and I decided to go the Hamilton Greenbelt and take Chewie for a while.  Chewie was able to splash around in the creek there.  He was quite happy.

On the way home, we stopped at Black Rock Coffee.

Evan and I watched the Steelers game.  It was a tense game.  Noah didn't want to watch because every time he watched last week, the Steelers played poorly. He'd come downstairs to check on the game and see how things were going.

We got pizza from Domino's.  Then we went to HEB to do our weekly shopping.

The boys are playing on the Playstation now.

2020 Election

 Yesterday I met up with Deborah.  A long-time friend of hers who she was also living with passed away on Sunday.  Deborah was her caretaker over the last few months.

I Zoom tutored in the afternoon.

We ate grilled chicken for dinner and then Morry and Evan went to the baseball lesson.

Today is the big day - election day.   Morry got up around 6:15am to go vote.   I voted early a few weeks ago.

Both Morry and the boys were off today.  There was no school because many of the schools are voting locations.

After I taught, I dropped my car off to get serviced.  

Morry met me there and then we went to lunch nearby at a place called Hideaway.  It was good and we were able to eat outside.

After picking up my car we went back home.

I Zoom tutored this afternoon.

Morry and Evan are at baseball practice.

When they get home we will have corned beef for dinner.

We will see what happens tonight in terms of the election.

Lights

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Before I talked about what happened today, Rachel suggested I talk a bit about Evan's games yesterday.  Evan has been playing especially well in the last few weeks.  In particular, he's hitting the ball hard every time.  Yesterday, those hard hits finally paid off in the form of a triple.  He had hit a ball very hard earlier in the day to deep center but this one was a line drive that was so hard hit down into left field that it rolled all the way to the corner and Evan ended up with a triple.  While he was playing catcher, only one run scored (on an error) and only one kid tried to steal on Evan. The ball was in the dirt so Evan had to block it and wasn't able to make a throw.  At third base, Evan fielded a ball towards the mound and threw to first on the run to get the runner out.  He also barehanded a ball and fielded another ball and threw to end the game.

Evan slept over Reid's last night so he was not home this morning. He stayed at Reid's until after the Steelers game.

Rachel and I went to Lady Bird Lake and walked around.

When we got home I watched the Steelers game.  Rachel took a nap and also tutored during the game.  Noah watched with me but he left when they were losing.  When the Steelers took the lead he was nervous to come back and watch with me.

After the game, I picked Evan up and brought him home so he could clean his room.  Rachel has a sponsored post on her blog to get these wifi-enabled colored led light strips for the boys' rooms.  Rachel and I put them up in Noah's room at the top of one wall along the ceiling.  It was a bit of a pain.  Then we attached them underneath a shelf in Evan's room.  Both boys seemed to like them.  Rachel took pictures for her sponsored post.

When we were done, we went to HEB and shopped for the week. We had Domino's delivered for dinner.

The boys are upstairs playing.  Rachel and I will sit down to watch some TV soon.

Until next time...