Long Overdue Update

Aren't they all?

Let's see -

1) Several weeks ago, the boys and I took a trip with Caleb's cub scout den to gold country. One of the families has a house in the mountains, not far from Deer Ridge ski resort. So the boys spent a day learning to snowboard, and I spent the day wishing I'd remembered the camera.

Everybody did fantastic, I was extremely impressed with the progress that all the kids made during the course of their lesson. Gabe, though, acted as if he'd been snowboarding all of his life. His instructor, upon realizing that Gabe was only 5 and had never snowboarded before, asked me "Did your wife snowboard while she was pregnant or something?"

Also of note is that all the boys went with only the dads, and no one returned dead, in a cast, emotionally scarred, or in any way corrupted... despite the lack of motherly influence.

2) Caleb's birthday was fantastic. We pretty much stretched out celebration for a week or so. On the actual actual day (yesterday, that is) we started by joining Savethebay.org at the Palo Alto Baylands. We planted native plants and rid the area of some non-native plants. It was hard work but the kids (this was another Cub scout endeavor) did great and most said they'd like to come back. We left there and drove up to San Francisco, where we watched the Giants blow a 5 run lead (after 7.1 innings of no-hit ball from Matt Cain) to lose to the Cardinals. It was a fantastic game despite the loss... extra innings, bloop hits, lots of pitchers pitching differently, really fun to watch. AT&T Park is gorgeous, can't wait to go see more games there, even if it means cheering for the Giants.

I was, yet again, without my camera.

3) Caleb was supposed to graduate from the Wolf path of Cub Scouts (there's a theme here, huh?) last Tuesday but there was some miscommunication and that'll wait until next month's meeting. If you ask me, certain adults who have agreed to oversee Cub Scouts machinations may need to earn their organization badge. But that's just if you ask me.

I had the camera for that one, but nothing terribly interesting happened. I'll be sure and take it for the real event.

We do have some pictures, and I'll pull them off the camera and post them soon. And by soon I mean the normal definition of "soon", not the definition evident by our posting record.

/ak