Before I get to the rest of my report, I want to bring up
something that I honestly haven’t been thinking about enough lately – my Magi
training.
Mom had me stay home without friends over after baseball,
and advised me that we both needed to get back to more regular lessons. While Ethan, Ehlana, and I don’t sense any
immediate danger in our near-future, Mom is right that I still have a lot to
learn; and more reasons to keep at my training than she needs to know about anytime
soon. Spending nearly two hours working
with her tonight plus hours more of archive assignments that I’ll need to get
done over the next few days reinforced her message loud and clear – though the
lesson was still fun too.
Having Michael with me for Tai Chi; breakfast; our riding
lesson; and a swim once we were home again helped to keep the fun level high
all morning. It felt strange to get
rides to and from the ranch from Tim’s and Rowen’s Moms instead of Violet; but
she won’t be doing that for the rest of the summer anyway. There isn’t really anything special to report
from anything we did this morning, but I will mention that two-out-of-two
Mom-drivers suggested that the four of us could occasionally give my parents a
break and hang out at Michael’s, Tim’s, or Rowen’s houses even though I have
the ‘coolest kid room ever’. That’s
something else I don’t really ever think about, and I’m sure we can do that
more once school starts; but my house – or Michael’s – is the most convenient
for doing things like swimming and canoeing.
That’s something else we haven’t done enough of; and we
should make time for more canoe trips before summer is over. Then again, I’d also like to do more trips to
Quarry Lake; trail rides with Mom and Dad; and
a bunch of other things that we won’t get done in the two and a half weeks we
have left before we head back to school.
We had Ethan and Ehlana with us for the pre-lunch swim, and
Tim and Rowen both stayed for lunch.
After helping with the clean-up, we had time for a bike ride with the
twins in the trailer; and then Tim went over to the park for Kyle’s football
practice while Rowen and I dropped Ethan and Ehlana off with Mom before picking
up bottles of water and a few snacks and heading over to the park too.
I don’t have a problem with Michael getting football fever,
but I also don’t plan on being a football groupie either. Rowen and I left my backpack with Tim in case
he needed any water or food; and then we hit the trails for an hour or so
before going back to the football field and sitting in the bleachers while
taking a break and downing a couple of bottles of water. Michael was on his afternoon break by then,
and had joined the on-field action in time for the scrimmage game.
We watched for more than half an hour before Kyle allowed a
‘half-time’ break. This is the first
year that Michael and Tim have been big enough to even think about competing
with the high school players, even though some of those guys are more than a
foot taller than they are; and Kyle outweighs them by a lot. One thing that I really noticed today was how
well Michael and Tim were able to keep up with Kyle. He’s the biggest player on our team, but he’s
also the fastest. I don’t know if anyone
else really even noticed, but when Kyle was lead blocking for either Michael or
Tim; they stayed right with him whether it was a five yard gain or fifty.
Since Michael wants to play high school football nearly as
much as Tim does; I’d better get used to them being in that mode from August
through November for at least the next five years. There’s certainly no doubt they can already
play, and I don’t need to use my Sight to deduce that they’ll get their shot a
playing once we do hit high school in another year.
That little visit with Michael and Tim during their break
wasn’t very long, and I barely had time to get Michael’s lunchtime at the Inn report before Kyle had them running again. Rowen and I went back out on the trails for
another half hour while they were playing, and then brought the boys home with
us for a short swim before Michael needed to get back to the Inn
again.
Tim left when Michael did, but Rowen stayed and we played
with the twins until Mom had an early dinner ready so we could eat as soon as
Dad got home from work and still have time to get to the park for our baseball
practice. It’s very unlikely now that it
matters whether we win or lose our game on Saturday, but Rowen and I still have
our personal motivation playing against Vanessa and Nora; and Carolyn doesn’t
want to risk the slim chances that a loss might lead to a tie-breaker for
second place in our division – or go into the championship game on two
losses. Those thoughts were all she
needed as motivation to work us even harder tonight that she had last week; and
I don’t think that there is any way she or Coach Sarah could have done more to
get us ready to play this weekend.
Rowen and I went for a swim after practice, but then she
went home so I could do my lesson with Mom after that. Ethan and Ehlana played on their iPads in the
office while Dad worked and Mom was busy with me, and then we did the full bath
and bed routine with them before I was able to come up to my room and get
started on my archive homework and nightly computing. That was almost three hours ago, and I’ve had enough
fun for today.
Michael has his usual Friday afternoon and evening off
tomorrow, and though he and Tim will be playing football with Kyle and the
other guys again in the afternoon; they’re both going to be with Rowen and me
for dinner and a movie night – and Uncle Mark and Aunt Grace are hosting it for
the first time at their new house.
Violet and Dillon will be home from Woodvale in time for that; so it
should be a fun evening – if I’m not too tired to stay awake for it! Let’s make sure that isn’t a problem.
Until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor; logging
out!
