Wish You Were Here...

...then I could split the cost of the beach house with you.

Where funnelcaking happens...

Yes. It's a sport.

Here Comes the Sun

...for a little while, at least. The water is "refreshingly cool," and we were treated to a surfing exhibition by the local boogie-boarders. And (amazingly), the kids slowed down enough to hold still for some Papa time. Also, Kevin dug up a ghost crab (no pic, unfortunately), and yelled "crab! crab!" at the top of his lungs as the poor fellow made his way (sideways of course) back into the ocean.

In it up to our....

We're here, and so are the clouds! After an uneventul drive down, we're in Fenwick Island, Del. for our annual family vacation. (It's actually the vacation before the vacation, since Meaghan's folks get a place down here in three weeks that makes our place look like a very well-appointed cardboard box). The place is really nice and half a block from the water, and we were able to get down to the beach for a little while before a thunderstorm rolled in. The rest of the family is due down in waves over the next couple of days, so hopefully we'll bear the brunt of Mother Nature's wrath before everyone else gets here.

And fortunately, the Peanut Butter Milkshakes taste great no matter what's going on in the sky.

Hoop Dreams Redux

Season's over, time for a retrospective. Nothing like a little Kurtis Blow in the background as you chart your hoops progress.

Oh Beautiful....

Happy 4th everyone. Independence day in Hockessin means a couple of things:

First, the Hockessin Neighborhood Relays. Each development puts together a team of kids, 6-14, and competes in three events: Softball Toss, Relay Races and Broad Jump. Our neighborhood doesn't have a lot of kids, so we generally don't do very well, but the kids have a great time.

Then there's a trip to Perkins for lunch, which is oddly packed on July 4th. The parade is in the afternoon down Old Lancaster Avenue, and the fireworks at Dusk. Because we live a the top of the hill, we can see the fireworks in both Swift Park (at the bottom of the hill) and in Kennett Square, Pa. (at the golf course) without leaving our front yard.

Whatever your tradition, enjoy the day, and take it easy on the hot dogs (have you ever seen how those things get made? I'm just sayin'...) UPDATE: I've been informed that the Deerfield community won 6TH PLACE in the broad jump! This is a big deal for a neighborhood with a total of like seven kids in it. Sappy video with Ray Charles music coming in a couple of hours.... UPDATE #2 - As promised...

Throwback of the Week - Chi-Town

One of my favorites. I got this 1968 >Luis Aparicio jersey last summer at the M&N store in Philadelphia. The color is >dead-on, right down to the buttons, and the small script >player name and year in the lower right hand corner is a throwback to the way baseball jerseys used to be labeled by the clubhouse equipment folks. I even love the Illinois Sesquicentennial >patch (that's 150 years, if you're wondering).