Volleyball Out, Tennis In, Spring Is Here, Let's Begin!

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M serves up a winner at the last volleyball match of the season. (Thanks for the great picture, Laurie!)

Volleyball Endeth, Tennis Starteth
Both boys played volleyball for their respective grades this year. The sixth-graders played two all-city tournaments (six schools total), and the eighth-graders played each other school twice. The kids got plenty of exercise and lots of bruises on their knees because the boys are too cool to wear knee pads like the girls do.

Spring tennis is starting for K - he is playing one day a week with fellow students after school, and will do Rec & Ed tennis again. The latter means one practice a week and a match roughly every other week. He and I went to Pioneer High to play some tennis a few weeks back when he was off school for spring break and I was on vacation. We'll do lots more of it this summer.

Links
I wonder if the photographer put the snail in those places, or if he spent years following it around?

If I worked at home more, I'd get one of these desks.

For no particular reason, a stack of toads for your consideration. The caption for this picture, which had no photo credit, said that the photographer stacked them for fun to see what would happen, and they let him.

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Happy 100th Birthday to Grandma Nuernberg!

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We went to Pittsburgh this weekend to see J's Grandma Nuernberg, the family's matriarch and lone centenarian. She does not at all look like someone who has lived that long, she has a spring in her step and a quick wit.

Happy Birthday to the youngest 100-year old we know!

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K has been playing volleyball with a lot of other sixth-graders. Here is a picture from their recent city-wide tournament, in which teams from all five public middle schools play each other. K is in the back row, almost under the basketball hoop.



M shows that he can relax better than anyone on the ride home from Pittsburgh.

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Mechanical motion - similar to poetry in motion.

My next house will either have a workshop in the basement or a train in the yard.

Nice watch.

The Detroit Tigers' schedule for 2014. Go Tigers!