We’ve had another on-and-off-again rain day
that really only ended up affecting our after-school activities while letting
us go ahead with Tai Chi by the river this morning and Michael and Tim’s
baseball practice after dinner. Our luck
for that is bound to run out eventually; but we’ll take it while it lasts. Farmers around here are starting to get a bit
concerned about all of the rain now that they want to be working the fields
every day and need to deal with continual weather-related problems or delays;
so I hope we do get some stretches of better weather once we get through this
next dip back into wetter, cooler days.
Though Kyle and the rest of his classmates
were off on their trip early this morning, Michael, Tim, and some of the other
guys still had their morning weight training workout this morning. Tim was one of the guys to push for that
instead of taking the week off; and he didn’t have a problem telling Michael,
Rowen, and me what he thought about the guys who are skipping out this week
without having Kyle there to motivate them.
He and Michael were out playing football at lunchtime too, and had a
pretty good turnout; though that was probably more because of the impending
rain that kept guys off the field after school than anything else.
I don’t have any news from school worth
mentioning, and other than getting rained on when we went home to study at my
place after school; we pretty much just had a standard study and snack break in
the lounge until it was time for Michael and I to get to his place for
dinner. We got rained on a bit then too,
but then it stopped shortly after we sat down to eat; and stayed dry for a
couple of hours and change. Rowen and
Tim had done dinner together at his house this week, so they met us at the
school ball diamond; and Rowen and I sat it the two bag chairs I’d brought
along so we wouldn’t have to sit on damp bleachers. We didn’t have any other plans tonight, but I
don’t think that we’ll be sitting around for many of these Monday night
practices for the rest of the season.
There weren’t very many people around the school tonight other than the
players and coaches; and the only kids to venture out to the playground left
almost immediately after finding everything to wet to be fun for playing on or
with.
A damp field didn’t make the baseball
practice all that much fun for the guys either, and the drop in temperature
that came with the rain had all of us feeling a bit chilly by the time we could
head home again. The four of us went to hang
out at Michael’s house; though Rowen and Tim did a quick run around to each of
their houses so that Tim could get changed out of wet shoes and pants and they
could both grab their instruments so we could do a practice for music class
tomorrow. That last-minute plan meant
that Michael and I were out of luck for having any alone time tonight; but the
music and time with our best friends wasn’t a bad trade-off. Practicing with just the trumpet, saxophone,
and flute parts of our music sometimes sounds a bit odd; but we always manage
to both make some progress with our playing skills and keep ourselves
entertained. Tim might not be the most
enthusiastic musician in our class, but he can play his trumpet well-enough;
and even manages to get pretty good marks in the subject too.
After our practice, we hung out in the
living room with Jacob, Miranda, and Rebecca for a while; and then Rowen, Tim,
and I took advantage of a short lull in the rain that had resumed before we’d
all gotten to Michael’s house. I barely
got damp at all with the sprinkles still falling, and Rowen was mostly dry too;
but I doubt that Tim made it home before it had started raining harder; so he
likely got fairly wet. I guess that’s
just the price you pay for being too cool for umbrellas.
Ethan and Ehlana had waited up for me and
worked later than usual on their college assignments while Mom and Dad were
busy working in the office too. We did a
snack break and mostly just had a nice chat instead of doing a bedtime
story. Mom opted for a joint Magi lesson
then too; and once we were finished with that; I took care of getting my
brother and sister tucked in for the night before coming up to my room. Once I was changed and in bed with Mandy; it
was time to get started on the pile of work waiting for me. My self-imposed time limit tonight was
two-thirty for the work and language studying and then to be asleep before
three. I’m running out of time for that,
so let’s wrap this up.
Our favorite collegians are sounding
relatively happy about exams today in their email updates; and we’re all
counting down the days until they’ll be coming home. There were some messages flying around today
about the Memorial Day weekend, and while we aren’t going to have everyone from
our collective families home this year; we will have the Proctor-Rice clan
here; and Aunt Deborah’s half of the Johnson family. The McEwans will be away, and have Christina
and Josiah with them; while the other half of the Johnson family will be
spending the holiday with the other sides of their family too. Now that Aunt Grace and Uncle Mark are living
here, we collectively have lots of room for incoming guests; and our house
might not even be party central this year when doing the parties in the
connected back yards for the Carringtons and Everetts will give us enough room
for everyone in our families and the usual visits from friends and other, more
distant cousins.
We still have a week and four days to go to
the holiday weekend, though; so I can write more about those plans next week
instead of cutting into any more sleep time now. I can still, hopefully, be in slumber land
before three too; so, until next time…
…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the
Light!
