Mindy and the kids are off for a week visiting her family in Virginia. I tried to talk her into taking the dogs as well so I could really relax but I got a "You're kidding, aren't you" look and so felt like it was wise to drop the subject.
Friday I caught up with an old work friend for dinner and a few drinks. Saturday was day 1 of a cricket double-header, a rare event these days. Fairfield CC were the victims. We scored 228 from our 35 overs and knocked them over with 10 overs to spare for around 150. I was batting well until I decided that I would challenge the notion that moving your feet is actually helpful and simply allowed a ball to slam into the pads and onto the stumps. I guess all of those coaching books are on the right track. Sunday was a game against our old foes from Waterbury. This team always comes with two or three massive tonkers and a bunch of spastics...so you might have a scoreline that reads 5/100 after 25 overs and then finish up with 7/250 from your 35. Our small ground is tough to defend when they get in. Well...when I bowled, I got ABSOLUTELY caned however did have a catch dropped off my bowling which would have helped things a little. They ended up 170 all out from 22 overs...two blokes scored about 130 of these between them. We were able to simply chip away at the total and were always on target. I mishit one that got caught but the match was never in doubt. So two wins on the weekend...could do worse I guess.
Mindy is enjoying Virginia it seems. The plan is for her to come back on Monday so it will be a week of online poker, TV prison documentaries (Locked Up Abroad; Locked Down; Hard Time...all great stuff) and some reading to pass the time.
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