21 August 2011 - Pony Baseball

Each year the Pony League World Series is held in Washington, PA.  The Pony baseball tournament is for 13-14 year old boys, and they come from all over the world.  W&J College is a night sponsor each year and they always get bunches of tickets for the night they sponsor.  This year we got VIP tickets and got to have dinner and watch the game from the hospitality suite above the press box.  The food was tasty, and since it was hot and humid, watching the game from an air conditioned room was very fine.  The only drawback was the backstop net.

After the sun went down it cooled off and we went out to the bleachers for the second game of the night. We had a lot of fun.

My office has been slowing getting back in order since my false-start move down to Maryland in January.  I got my pennants put back up finally this week (with a few new ones from my summer adventures), so my office finally feels like home again.

With summer winding down, a friend from church and I decided to fit in another motorcycle ride.  This time we rode to a marina on the Monongahela River.

 

On Saturday, the farm that we helped out on this past summer had a picnic for all the supporters.  We toured the farm, checked out the late summer and fall crops, and grilled some very tasty burgers.  At one point, Farmer Dave had the kids pick as many apples as they could.   This didn't make much sense since the apples were small, green, some had bugs, and were generally inedible.  Still, the kids had fun picking armfuls of apples.

Once they were picked, we took them over to the pond and using a giant slingshot (Jessica and I were the holders), the kids got to take turns flinging them as far as they could out into the pond.

It was a fine Saturday out on the farm.