Tandem, Baseball, Frozen Custard, and Mr. Entertainment

Monday was a, well Monday. Had a surprise new employee; Jake is covering for our intern this week and it is fun having him at the shop. I headed over to SBU at noon and got in some great basketball for 1:30hrs (interval workout equivalent). After work I tackled the lawn work and then pitched to Ian quite a bit; his hitting is coming along nicely (too bad it's toward the end of the season... HA!).

After dinner with the family and a couple of Jake's buddies Deb and I took advantage of the great weather (low humidity and nice temps) and got in a 1:45hr tandem ride. Took some back roads and took her on some new scenery (which included a stop at Ira's ranch, where we interrupted an intense game of family tag). Deb wanted me to add that the canines were out in force and we even got ambushed by two large ones in thick weeds at which point Deb let out an unusual squeek of some sorts. At the end of the ride we were rewarded with 3Gs frozen custard on the Bolivar square. Back to the casa and lights out...



Another beautiful day in the Ozarks so I skipped a morning ride in exchange for a 43 mile ride to SGF (via Morrisville, Ebenezer, McDaniel Lake, and Fantastic Caverns area) to meet up with the crew to catch Ian's last 'regular season' ball games. The ride was awesome as low humidity and great route made for a high tempo the entire way.

Ian's squad was playing one of the better teams in the league and the night ended up with a split (1 win/1 lose). Ian had a stellar play that might have made ESPN's top 10 as he caught an on-the-run diving over-the-shoulder pop fly while playing first base. He also pitched an inning and struck out two (so far two innings pitched and 5 strike outs); he is a quirky little pitcher as he doesn't throw with a lot of speed or any junk, he simply puts the ball across the plate hoping a batter will hit it and our stellar defense will get them out (he actually wants them to hit so he serves them up and it seems they keep missing). Ian had a decent night of hitting as he was 2-3 (with a walk added to that). With one end of the season tournament coming up next weekend the boys have a 24-3 record (not too shabby).

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We ended the evening with some Andy's custard (well, they did while I finally ate dinner at 9:50pm - I was starving).

Rest of the week will have some light riding in prep for Saturday's Lawrence race on the KU campus. Trying to work out some logistics to camp a couple night's at Clinton Lake this weekend while in Lawrence.

Played another round of intense noon-(basket)ball; high energy the whole time with several of the college players (past and present).

This afternoon Jake and Ian swung by the office and the below is what I label 'Mr. Entertainment' (joined in the latter parts by his big brother). Let's just say they both constantly add comic relief to my life, but in dynamically different ways.



After work I walk in to find Ian with string tied around a loose tooth with the other end getting tied to a door and of course Jake has convinced him it won't hurt at all (I don't make this stuff up)...