Spilt Milk

Spilt milk all over the kitchen at work yesterday. Didnt cry. Just cleaned it up. :)

D'OH! A deer!

We drove to Coeur D'Alene, ID this past weekend to go see our new niece, Willow's baby blessing. We stayed at the condos on the lake again with LeAnn's parents. We had a pretty much uneventful trip up until we started the windy trip around the lake to get to the condos. It is about 11 miles and takes about 20 minutes from I-90. I figured I had driven long enough by that time, and pulled out to switch with LeAnn. I think she was quite surprised as I had already driven about 5 hours, so why not finish it up? Anyway, we switched and she started driving the final leg. There was some snow on the edge of the road but it didnt feel to treacherous. We were just a few miles from our destination, when LeAnn suddenly shouted: "Oh my gosh! There's a deer!" It had bounded across the road and she started hitting the brakes to make sure she wouldnt hit it. Then, just as suddenly, another one appeared right in front of the right front bumper of the van. I saw its head briefly before we nailed it. It made a tremendous thump, and LeAnn screamed a bit more. We were doing about 20 MPH as she had slowed down to avoid the previous one. We couldnt tell if it was dead or not, as by the time we stopped we couldnt see anything else. I went out to inspect the damage and saw that our front headlight was hanging from the wires. Luckily, it wasnt significant damage and none of us were hurt. Scary stuff though.

Situps

Austin has been working very hard on his Activity Badges for Webelos over the past few weeks. One of the badges is 'Athlete'. For this, he needed to do a number of physical activities and keep records of his improvements. These include: Pushups, situps, pullups, 1/4 mile run. It is fun to see him strive so hard to reach and then surpass his goals. The first week he did the situps and completed 25. The next week he did 50, then 75 and 100. Amazing thing is, now that he completed the 4 week requirement and demonstrating improvement - he was still doing the situps to try and beat his record. I sat and watched in awe as he completed 200 in my bedroom last Thursday. Then on Friday, he did 300 in a row!! I watched as he had a pained expression on his face from the time he hit 100. This is one driven kid!
I told him I wasnt sure if I had done that many total in my whole life!

Bike Post

1983 - I had been swimming at the Alta Canyon pool with some friends. We stayed a bit later than we were supposed to, and I was supposed to have been home an hour earlier. It was now dark, and I was riding my Duster 200 home as fast as I could to hopefully alleviate any extra punishment I might be in for. I was up off of the seat pedaling with all of my might, when my back tire went right through one of the sewer grates in the gutter. I was going so fast, and the impact was so severe, that my bike post came up through the plastic seat of my dirtbike! Guess where it nailed me? Thats right-- right in the most sensitive area of the male anatomy. I pretty much crumpled right there. After getting my wind a bit later, I still had to pedal the rest of the way home without sitting down because of my broken seat. Such a 'painful' memory!

Fire Hydrant

When I was 13, I was playing football at Buttercup park in Sandy, UT. I was playing receiver and went long for the hail mary. I was going full blast and had the guy covering me beat. I looked back over my shoulder for the incoming pass, and.... ran straight into a fire hydrant. I think it was worse than a brick wall. The brunt of the impact was taken by my right thigh. I had never hit anything so hard. So lucky I didnt break my leg. I remember the bruise was the biggest I had ever had and covered the bulk of my quad. Limped around for quite a while after that.