Baseball starts up

Despite a light drizzle, Owen's team had their first practice yesterday. The coach seems really good. He began by letting them toss the balls back and forth and was actually teaching them how to throw, which I'm not sure any of his previous coaches ever did so explicitly.

After a little tossing around they sat down for introductions and some discussion. The most amusing part was where the coach said, "I don't want to ever hear anyone saying negative things about their teammates. Who here has never made a mistake playing baseball?" The assistant coach's daughter, sitting in his lap, who looked like she was about 4 and has probably never played baseball, raised her hand. We got a chuckle out of that.

Douglas did pretty well during practice and enjoyed running down the tiny little grassy hill - about 5 feet high - next to the field. Even a 5 foot tall hill is a novelty in Davis.

We are supposed to get a big storm tomorrow - up to 70 mph winds. The paper said to tie down or bring inside anything outside that could blow around, and get supplies, food, batteries, etc as we could have more power outages. We may get a couple of inches of rain and the Sierra is supposed to get up to 2 feet of snow. Good thing we didn't plan to go to Tahoe this weekend.