still under fire

Not much better today. We have had a few friends evacuated. We wish them the best of luck (Thomas' , Fischer')
Just a few more pictures to let you know what it looks like. The Stadium is an evacuation center. You can see the smokie haze/ overcast in the background. Some nieghborhoods are surrounded by fire. We have lost 1,000 houses, or bussiness'.

San Diego is ablaze

We were trying to figure out what we were going to have for dinner tonight. I suggested we just go outside with a couple of hotdogs on a stick.












Yesterday (Sunday) a few fires started, and by nightfall the skies all over San Diego were smoke filled. They are saying this is bigger then the Crest fire 5 years ago. We step out of our house and it smells like a bonfire was extinguished. While driving from north County down to our house ( about 24 miles) the headlights were all yellow, and visibillity was poor. Not much has changed this morning. The 15 freeway is shut down, entire cities/ communities are being evacuated over 250,000 people have been evacuated. I will try to get some more pictures up later, but they also want people to stay off the streets, and off the cell

Well, Another busy weekend. We made some progress on the shed. Dallas came up, and we put the walls up, the roof on ( what a pain that was). 'S' and 'A' helped, and we even managed to get some siding up. We finished the weekend by putting some shingles on.
Both 'A' and 'S' had games this weekend. Unfortunatly 'A' hurt her back and saw limited play time. 'S' got a few hits in her game, her hitting is developing well.






Here are some of the girls playing ball( 'A' had hurt her back, and didn't play much, and hit ok) here is 'S'
















And 'A' with her hit:



















here are some pictures:
showing progress we are adding the roof






















putting up the walls:

Weekend games

Both "A" and "S" played this weekend, and Both had double headers ( two games back-to-back against the same team) and they both went 1 and 1. "S" had some errors that did not start her day off well, but she Did get a great hit over the second basemans head for the only hit of the game, and the only RBI ( she drove in a run) they won the second game, but "S" did not have any highlights.
"A" had got on base almost everytime she went to bat, and got a tripple. She pitched the Second game, and That is the game they won. I only got pictures of "A"....

Back yard shed

I gathered up some boards to help build our backyard shed. Kim's Dad came to the rescue for the remainder ( which turned out to be ther bulk of it) We made two Home Depot runs, and we still aren't done. We started by setting some cement piers in the ground ( we will call it ground for this article, but it is mostly just a bed of rocks) we cut 2x6's pressure treated boards to the size of our deck frame, and then nailed in cross beams. We had to do some re-squaring of the frame, but we finally got the deck boards on.











Then we started on the walls.