Shortly after the game yesterday, Cassie and the boys headed for Belmont, leaving me here all by myself for the week. I’ll miss them, but I plan on catching up on sleep, reading, and getting some things done that have been neglected.
Today I took advantage of the great weather and took a bike ride and played some disc golf. More on both of those later. I’m now officially exhausted and about to hit the sack.
As I mentioned in my last post, we took Luke to his first high school football game last Friday night in Belmont. As I expected, he had a good time. He enjoys being around people, and there were plenty of them at the game.
Toward the end of the third quarter we walked down to where the band was sitting so Cassie could say hi to her former band director. At Belmont the band takes a break during the third quarter, and when they started playing at the beginning of the fourth quarter, it got Luke’s attention very quickly. He loves music, and will “dance” to anything from his toy piano to a car alarm in the parking lot to someone tapping a spoon on the edge of a food container. Toby, one of the drummers and the brother of my best man, let Luke play with his drum. He was very interested, and at one point the band director commented that he was keeping a pretty good beat.
Luke playing Toby's drum.
Luke was wearing his new shoes that aren’t very snug, and they managed to fall under the bleachers not once, but twice. Luckily we were able to retrieve them.
Unfortunately, Belmont lost a close game after some questionable calls from the referees. Never a fun way to lose.
On Saturday, while Cassie went to a baby shower and took the boys shopping with her parents, I took my parents to Tishomingo State Park for a round of disc golf, which was a lot of fun. I think my dad really enjoyed it, so I’ve got someone in Belmont to play with now. I was pretty rusty after not having played for two months.
On Sunday my brother and his family and my grandmothers came to my parents’ house for lunch. It was a good way to end a fun weekend.
Another hobby that I’ve picked up recently is disc golf. If you’re not familiar with disc golf, just think “frisbees” instead of a club and ball and baskets instead of holes. It’s a lot of fun and it gives me an excuse to get outside and get a little exercise.
Courtney from work gave me my first real introduction to it at Avent Park here in Oxford, where there are nine holes. We also have a nicer 18-hole course at the university’s intramural fields. I’ve also played at Coachman Park in Clearwater, Florida, when I was down there on business at the beginning of July.
Tishomingo State Park, near my hometown of Belmont, has two courses that I’d like to play, and there are several courses in and around Tupelo. Several of the other state parks have courses as well.
I’m still not very good at some (okay, most) aspects of disc golf, but I’m improving. For instance, my driving could use some improvement in both accuracy and distance.
It’s been too hot to play much lately, and I expect Liam will curtail my playing to a large degree for a while. However, it won’t be too terribly long until Luke can follow me around the course.