Friday, August 10, 2007

Golf Again!

Before I give the golf report, let me update you about yesterday's happenings. I got my filling repaired and guess what time my appointment was with the dentist - 2:30 (tooth hurty!! get it??) - ha ha ha! After it was repaired I had to avoid chewing on the side where the filling was replaced-not so easy to do-you have to think the whole time you are eating!

Last night I went to Lock 32 because Corey wanted some photos of him kayaking. The picture featured here is of him playing in one of the holes on the whitewater course. It was fun to watch him because I haven't seen him kayak in whitewater for a year and he has gotten so good! He does this front flip thing (I cannot remember what he calls it) but it is very impressive. I took about 100 photos and a few short videos on my new subcompact digital camera.

And now, the golf report. We (Sherri, Jan and I) went to Cardinal Creek which is farther west on 104 than Twin Hills. The greens fees were less, but so was the quality of the course. I think I played better today than last week, but it is hard to compare scores from one course to another. I had no swings and misses and was hitting my 3 iron much better. That will probably be it for golf for the rest of the summer because other things are on the calendar. It has been fun though.

Tonight we are going to attempt to record Corey's graduation ceremony from a cable channel on TV at Mom's and Dad's house. Corey is going to try to set it up so that we can record it onto our digital video camera. That will allow us to download it to our computer. I hope it all works because I really want to have a video clip of Corey's duet at graduation. 
I went to the downtown library this afternoon and borrowed some Turkish language CD's to try to learn some Turkish phrases. This past June 2 new families started at Longridge School and the children spoke no English. Through an interpreter, we learned that there may be 6 more families coming to Greece (specifically the Longridge neighborhood) so that the adults in the family can work at the Hickey-Freeman shop. I think it will be a good challenge to learn a few basic words in Turkish! Things like, "Get in line" and "Stop talking" may be a bit advanced, but "Hello, "Goodbye" and "Thank you" might be manageable. 

Corey is going to the family cabin of his friend Mike G. for the night. 

We are looking forward to seeing Bob and Joanie here tomorrow. I am making BBQ ribs for dinner for them. 

Next post will give you the correct response for the question about Corey's sheets.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Blog Minutiae

Here I go with Jim's biggest blog fear-minutiae-those trivial, day-to-day happenings. Oh well, everyday cannot be spent with the Yankees! 

Today Corey and I went shopping for things he will need in his dorm room. He wanted to go shopping for a backpack-type case for his new computer. I saw this as an opportunity to get him involved in the decisions about towels, sheet and pillows. Our first stop was at EMS. Corey saw an ad from EMS featuring a computer backpack that looked good to him. We bought it, and it does seem like a good choice. From there we went to Bon Ton, Macy's, Penny's and Sears to look for above mentioned dorm room items. I'm glad I had him select the stuff because it turns out that he did have some ideas about what he wanted. Please take the poll at the upper left side of this blog to see how well you know Corey! I'll let you know what the answer is when the polling time is up (this Friday at 10 PM). 

While chewing gum tonight, I pulled out part of a filling on a back tooth. I will have to call Dr. Mesolella in the morning and see how soon he can see me. Fortunately, there is no pain associated with the missing filling, but then again, I haven't had anything hot or cold in my mouth to test its sensitivity. 

The squirrels have been working overtime in our backyard and the grass was covered with lots of small twigs and branches. Jim and I got that cleaned up tonight. 

That's all for the past 2 lazy summer days. I have been doing a fair amount of knitting, which is delightful!

Don't forget to test your "Corey Knowledge" by doing the poll at the top of the blog.

Monday, August 6, 2007

Go Yankees!






We had a wonderful, whirl-wind trip to Toronto, with the finale being the Yankees beating the Blue Jays! 
We had an easy drive to Toronto, with no problems or delays at customs. The huge delay was going into the States with the traffic being backed up almost to Toronto. There was some civic holiday in Ontario so it was a long weekend for many Canadians. Our first stop in Toronto was at a yarn store called Lettuce Knit. Stephanie Pearl McPhee writes about this store in her knitting blog. It was a tiny shop in the Kensington Market area, filled with beautiful yarns-lots of Lorna Lace, and Fleece Artist. Yes, I did buy something, but I cannot disclose any details because the purchase was for a gift for a reader of this blog!

After a mexican lunch in the Market area, we checked into our hotel, the Intercontinental. This was the view from our room! It was especially beautiful at night when the CN tower and baseball stadium were illuminated!






We arrived at the Rogers Center (the Blue Jays home stadium) about 90 minutes before it was time to, "Play Ball" and in time to see the Yankees take batting practice. We walked around the 3 general levels of the stadium, stopping to take some photos and check out what ballpark food would be available for lunch. 






This stadium has a retractable roof which was opened for this sunny day. Our seats were under the overhang (think shade!) just inside the foul line pole in left field. The seats were actually pretty good and we were thankful to not have to sit in the 90 degree sunshine for 4 hours. The stadium looks pretty empty right now, but by game time it was quite full with over 42,000 fans in attendance.


We got fairly close to the field during batting practice and got to see Derek Jeter in action. He looked good in batting practice, but went 0 for 4 when it counted!! Oh, well. It was fun to see him play. 

Tucker, you may be interested to know that we did get to see Frank Thomas play. He is the designated hitter for the Blue Jays and early in the game hit a double to drive in a couple of runs, but later in the game struck out twice when the go ahead runs were on the bases! Remember when we saw him play in Chicago?


There were lots of Yankees fans in the stands so it was great that the Yankees won 5-4. It was a good game. 

Our drive home was cruising right along until we got to the bridge to the USA and then it took us 53 minutes to get through customs. 

Time to go. We had a great 30th Anniversary weekend!