Sunshine and Light

Weekend Thoughts

Cool things from the weekend

• Seeing 3 bald eagles at the race course on Saturday night. Dan was telling us how to tell that they were young still – they still had white on their bellies and didn’t have a fully white head. They don’t mature and mate until around age 5. Wade asked where adolescent males hung out if they didn’t mate until they were 5. Which lead to our speculation that they lived in crappy, ill-constructed nests and dropped in on nesting pairs around dinner time. I don’t know if Dan thought we were as funny as we did.
• An exciting B-men’s race. The B-men’s field this year seems to have really good parity. The good guys aren’t winning by multiple minutes, and on any given day, any rider could have a spectacular race and win. Chris had a good race today, and was all excited to finish ahead of Fatmarc. Fatmarc has had a great season, so that’s actually a more positive goal than it might otherwise sound. They’ve started calling him fast-Marc.
• Watching Fred and Austin play. They’re so goofy, they can’t seem to figure out precisely how to actually play, but they seem to have the intent.
• Watching Dede Winfield kill the women’s elite race, and then walk back to the car with her husband and her little girl.
• Seeing a farm with our last name on it. Ours is not a super common last name, so it was sort of startling to see it on a big sign in the middle of NJ.
• Watching Adam Myerson get 4th in the men’s elite. He has the coaching company that Chris’s coach used to be with, so I always cheer for him.
• Watching the whole race go well. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears goes into these things, so it’s always gratifying to see it go well. Kudos to the entire Beacon team, especially Wade!
• Best headers in the volleyball court of the weekend: Tie between Spanky and Rolf. I think Rolf wins because he actually had to withdraw from the race because of mechanical probs. I wish we had a great prize to compensate for the suckiness of that actually happening!
• I have now converted my husband to a Bloodhound Gang fan. I think Three Point One Four started the job and Yummy Down on This sealed the deal. So to speak. Don’t bother looking up the lyrics at work, I guarantee they’re too foul to make it through the firewall.
• We know what a Shoebie is!
• The caterers this weekend arrived in a car with a bumper sticker that read “Go back to Philadelphia”. Too funny.
• Bad weekend for batteries. The camera battery died about one picture into the elite men’s race. The phone battery threatened to die while I was calling in the results of the men’s elite race. It lasted just long enough for me to tell Chris that Adam Myerson won the two up against Roger Aspholm.

Labels: CX, Travel

posted by MyHusbandRules @ 6:57 AM