Baseball

Owen's first baseball practice was supposed to be yesterday, but it was raining so it got cancelled. Maybe tomorrow, although while it is sunny now we are supposedly due for more rain in the next few days. So we shall see. We went shopping on Monday to get a bunch of stuff for the baseball season - a helmet with face guard (they require the guard now that the kids are pitching), a cup (also now required) which fits inside some sliding pants, new cleats because he had grown out of the old ones already ... etc. etc. It will be a nice day when his feet stop growing.

Douglas cracked us up on Sunday when we saw a plane with contrail in the sky. Dan pointed it out and Douglas looked at it and then said, "So the plane can find its way back, right Daddy?"

The school district has to make $4 million in cuts, thanks to a combination of declining enrollment and state budget cuts. It is going to be painful no matter what they decide. The staff wrote a list of recommended cuts that includes all elementary school science teachers, school librarians, some of the school secretaries, pay-to-play athletics, the music program, and quite a few other things. It is going to get ugly.