My top story today does not include a happy baseball ending
– Palmer’s Panthers managed a come-from-behind, twelve-to-eleven win. Yes it was a good game, and close; but that
didn’t make it any easier to lose when we couldn’t stop the late-game rally
today.
While baseball was my top news, the grad party at Palmer’s
was the biggest event going on in town today.
Unfortunately for the graduating students and their friends, rain
started rolling in shortly after my game ended; and their party needed to be
indoors. Violet’s still at the party,
and probably won’t have time to give me the update until tomorrow night or
Monday; but I’m sure they’re still having fun even if they couldn’t do the
outdoor dinner, dance, and campfire that had been plan ‘A’.
The rest of my day has been fairly uneventful. I was up at dawn for Tai Chi with Mom and
Dad; Rowen and I packed up our campsite while Dad cooked breakfast and Mom was
busy with Ethan and Ehlana. Violet
recruited us to help her with the post-breakfast clean-up, and Rowen happily
helped to fill her in on most of the Michael and me story from the last few
days before she needed to head home and meet up with her parents before they
all went over to the computer store.
So much for avoiding that chat until next week sometime, but
it was fun; and Violet took it easier on me than either Rowen or Aunt Leanne
have so far.
After Rowen left, Violet
went to help Mom for the morning, and my jobs for the day were cutting the lawn
and weeding the gardens. That kept me
very busy through until I needed to stop; grab a micro-shower; get into my
uniform; and then bike over to the park with Rowen in time for our team
warm-ups. I’ve already reported on the
game, so let’s not go there again.
Violet was busy getting ready for the grad party by the time
Rowen and I got home again, so we stayed out of the way and hopped in the river
to cool off and get rid of some of the baseball game dirt and sweat while she
was busy using my bathroom. After our
little swim, we played with Ethan and Ehlana for a while so that Mom could help
Violet with a few finishing touches before Dillon came over to get her; and
they walked over to the Palmer’s house together.
Thanks to the rain, Rowen and I spent the rest of the
afternoon indoors until she needed to head home for dinner. We mostly just played with Ethan and Ehlana
in the lounge and all three of them spent some more time teasing me about
Michael. That was fun, but I was also
trying not to think about why I was missing seeing Michael today while we were
both busy; and talking about him didn’t help.
Speaking of missing, Uncle Adam was in Crystal Springs
today for his tux fitting. Grandpa
Duncan and Uncle Blaine met him there, and after getting that done, they had
lunch together before Uncle Adam came home again. For some reason, they didn’t feel the need to
spend the afternoon shopping for clothes together. While not wanting to go shopping while in the
city seems incomprehensible to most small-town girls, I do have a pretty good
idea why thinking about the wedding being three weeks from today feels a whole
lot different now than it did two days ago.
It’s a good thing that we have the girls’ summer clothes shopping trip
coming up next Friday – I’m going to need to find something spectacular to wear
to the wedding! Ditto that for Rowen,
and I think that we’ll have some extra fun picking out what we’re going to wear
this summer too.
Getting back to current events, after Rowen went home for
the night, I helped Mom in the kitchen; we had dinner; and then it was a work
night for Dad while Mom did a Magi lesson with Ethan, Ehlana, and me; we all
had baths as part of our respective bedtime routines; and I was in bed by
ten-thirty. It’s Father’s Day tomorrow,
and I should probably wrap this up and get some sleep because we’re doing an
early breakfast before Violet and Dillon need to hit the road for Woodvale.
There’s more rain in the forecast for tomorrow, but I’m
hoping most of the wet will be tonight and tomorrow night; and we’ll be able to
go ahead with our lunch and dinner barbeque and outdoor play afternoon plans. I’m sure that Violet would prefer not having
rain for the drives to and from Woodvale too; so hopefully Mother Nature will
give her a break too.
That is all I have for now, though, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
