Track season

This spring has shaped up to be an awful lot like this winter:  rainy and in the 40s.  It's May and we still need the wood stove to take the chill out of the house.

But spring sports shall not be deterred, so short of a downpour, the track meet will go on.  Thus we stand for great lengths of time in the cold and damp.

These things are chaos.

See the kids with the blankets?  They were the smart ones.

Here, by the way, is a wind turbine that the high school students spent eight years raising half a million dollars to erect.  It was just installed, and the jury is still out on whether or not they'll see some sort of return on the investment.  Seems to me the cost benefit analysis was a little optimistic, but time will tell.  

So far no talk of bird strike.  My bet is there's some poor facilities guy out there every morning at 5 a.m. with a flashlight.

This is Camden.  We must keep up appearances.

Here's Thing Two tearing it up.  

She has potential.

Thing One is a good sibling - not only did he go to watch, he helped with measuring the long jump.  

And then we all came home and ate steaming bowls of lentil stew by the fire. 

Amen.