Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Tomorrow is Tucker's birthday, and I put his gift from me together just now, and IMO, it's pretty cool, a batting machine:).
The batter taps the red button on homeplate, and the basket with the balls swings up, they are covered in velcro and the arm hanging as velcro so it catches a ball, holds it, the basket goes back down then the batter can bat:)
Tucker should really like this:)
Becky
Looks like your getting the weather we got earlier this week. We have sun and pretty blue skies today, but it’s still a bit cold.
Becky
Hey - now that’s a good Tucker present... What are the balls made of? He’s gonna break some windows :~)
They are pretty stiff, but I don’t think they would break a window....knock on wood, the kids got a heck of a swing:)
Becky
Ohhhh!!!! That’s going to be so much fun. I think the weather is going to be nice enough to play outside tomorrow, so we’ll be able to try it out. He’s going to love that. The kid should have enough baseball stuff after tomorrow, I think everyone is getting him something to do with baseball. He’ll be set.
Cute! (They have so much cool stuff now that they didn’t have when I was a kid!)
It is cold as can be, and VERY windy, and still a few snowflakes spitting around. Nasty, nasty weather.
The Labs and I are going to sit in the study on the sunny side of the house and BEAD! (you can't imagine how helpful Labs are when dealing with teeny teeny tiny little seed beads . . . . . not!)
Here's what we're up to: Honey is putting in stepping stones out to the barn where the grass gets worn down by traffic. We've got it fenced off, then we'll seed it.
Yeah I told her to wait until later and we would wet the grass to keep the birds from eating them. She was impatient though so when she asked if she plant them I told her yeah. Kept her busy for quite awhile:’). I have to go to Walmart in a bit and she “ain’t” taking off that Hannah Montana wig.
That’s a really cool toy :-) I bet he’ll love it.
It’s really windy here too. Put an ‘r” in beads and that’s what Sarah and I are going to make this afternoon.
That’s cute. I haven’t seen those.
We had a tiny bit of snow here this morning, too.
What a pretty picture.
- Sydney Carter, "Julian of Norwich"
Thanks — kinda big though ... sorry guys.
That’s lovely. :-)
Sydney Carter also wrote "Lord of the Dance". He was a sort of religious poet/songwriter of the early 20th c. Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span recorded a lot of his stuff.
I think I'm going to walk over to the pasture and see if I can get a picture of my younger daughter's horse to send to her prev. owner. She still has this horse's younger sister holding her for us because we couldn't get her to load.
The sun is out here now, although it's still cold.
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