The Week In Review

Here is what has been happening up to and through the Labor Day weekend:

• Scott flew to Tampa on Wednesday night and on Thursday interviewed safety manager candidates for his company's Florida operations. Boy was it hot and sticky down there! He returned Thursday night. The trip was typical in requiring eight hours in transit, eight hours in a motel and four hours of milling around to do two hours of actual work.
• On Thursday, the Lebanon lacrosse team lost their second round tournament game to a very good Milford squad. (I have discreetly forgotten the score.) The good news is that the Warriors won seven of their last nine games and had a way better season than anyone expected. Annie is determined to play again next year and is looking at camps and clinics to attend this summer. (Annie would want me to say this - she is a BEAST.)
• Armed with her new driver's license, Annie drove to Willoughby OH (east of Cleveland) on Friday to visit her friends at The Andrews School, which she attended for half of ninth grade. Dad rode along to navigate but Annie planned the trip and paid her own way. While Annie was visiting on campus Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday morning, Dad took long walks in Mentor and charming downtown Willoughby. Both got home safely Saturday, having logged 520 driving miles in two days (and for Scott, about 10 miles on foot). Annie had a spectacularly good time. Dad is still limping a bit.
• Lee Ann competed in a local horse show on Saturday and Sunday. Her horse Ruler is lame (a bit like Scott, actually) so she borrowed a friend's gigantic draft cross, Kelso. Together they won a big handful of ribbons ranging from second place to sixth - a very successful show.
• The current house project is the small bedroom in our East Main Street house, where Scott spent much of Sunday and Monday dutifully removing wallpaper. The hard part is scraping it off the ceiling, along with several layers of paint, after which the neck pain from craning one's head upward for hours is very effective in distracting one from any lingering foot pain one might have. It's funny how these things take care of themselves.