This morning I am completely exhausted and pretty much my whole body aches in some way. The weekend started on Friday night with some work in the garden, splitting some of our tree wood for a couple of hours after work. I am having success with this, even the pieces 4 feet across...although these require the 8lb splittng maul followed by a number of blows with the 16lb sledge hammer.
Also, on Friday, Naomi lost her first tooth! She was very excited about the tooth fairy visiting and was carrying her tooth around in a plastic bag. Unfortunately, the bag must have had a small hole in it as when she was outside in the early evening, she noticed her tooth was missing. We spent about 30 minutes looking at the driveway but could not find it anywhere. In an attempt to ease the situation, I tried to convince her that a tiny, white rock we found might be her tooth. After some convincing, she bought into this (I think deep down inside she knew it was a rock, but convinced herself that it was a tooth as she knew she was pretty much out of options at this stage). So, crisis averted I guess. Fiona seemed a little unsure about the tooth fairy but Naomi reassured her - "There really is no tooth fairy, some kids believe in it but it is really just mummy and daddy pretending.". So I guess that mystery is solved!
In the morning, Naomi came into the room with her gift, happy that the tooth fairy had given her 50c. We then explained that it was actually $5 and not 50c! Another donation to the Naomi bike fund. We then spent another of hours in the garden (splitting wood again) before I headed off to cricket practice for both a practice and some digging out weeds in our pitch to get it ready for the season. While this was going on, the kids went with Mindy to a birthday party. Back home in the late afternoon and then joined Mindy in the garden again to move the wood off our yard and continue with the seemingly endless task of splitting it all. We also did our bit to compensate for having the tree cut down by planting two new trees in our yard - a weeping willow tree and a red maple. We got the trees from the Arbor Day Foundation, they are not kidding about sending baby trees - these things are basically twigs, so it will be interesting to see if we can get them to grow at all (before they get eaten by deer).
Sunday morning - yes - more splitting...then off to play a cricket match for the Norwalk club in Connecticut. We were playing a side from New York, containing a couple of members of the USA national side as well as several other quite good players. I bowled OK, had a catch dropped off me and also a missed stumping, so could easily have picked up a couple of wickets. Some great fielding kept us in the game and had us chasing 167 to win off 30 overs. I also batted OK against some good bowling, I think I got about 20, and some good time at the crease to start the season. Unfortuantely, we came up just short, scoring 165 from our overs. It was a lot of fun - hopefully I will play some more games with them when my Mad Dog commitments allow. Mindy and the kids were at another birthday party on Sunday so everyone was busy.
So now I am paying the price for all of this activity. Sore arms and back from the splitting. Sore shoulder and legs from cricket. As well as a sore right hand from a knock in the field and also a knock to the finger while batting. I guess a necessary evil for this time of the year and if it clears up in the next couple of days, it will be OK. I hope so, as I am only about 1/3 of the way through the wood...so much more work to be done.
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