Softball had something of a comeback this week! Playing the baptists, at first I didn't think we were going to have enough players, again, but apparently several guys weren't having their texts go through to the group chat so some were playing but I hadn't heard from them. We did have to borrow a pitcher from the other FCC team but otherwise we were fine. This after I asked the other team to send players and I got 5 offers to come play for us... they came early, but weren't needed as it turned out. But we did well, ended up beating them 14-7. It was a close game until the late inning s when we pulled away. 

Wednesday I was all set to join the KCV ride at 6:30 but failed to remember that the rides are at 6. So I missed the group ride but did my own ride around the Winona trails and Grace College campus. Kinda bummed that I missed the group ride, those are more fun than riding alone.

File this under the 'who needs this' department: in the last few days the pump for the pool filter has been making a grinding noise. The motor is going. Not sure exactly what's happening with it, but I had to go to the pool supply store and buy a new pump/filter assembly for $500. 

Kinda cool thing happened this week. A couple weeks ago the fam came back from vacation in New Mexico, and I left my Kindle on the plane in Indy. I didn't notice it until we were well away, but I reported it to lost & found when I came back to get the baggage the next day, and I submitted the lost item report on the website. I'd gotten a couple messages since then saying that they didn't have it and didn't find it anywhere, so I was expecting that it was gone forever. Well, I got a message from the airline last week saying that they had found it and asking for shipping information. I got it back on Friday. Which, however, was several days after I bought a new one on Prime Day. So good news/bad news, I guess. Total surprise that they found it.

Speaking of riding, Trey extended an open invitation to the group to go ride the mountain bike trails with him at lunchtime on Friday. Apparently there are "sorta" group rides twice a week, basically not group rides but people go show up the same times twice a week and ride. Friday he was going with his oldest son, and I took him up on the offer. He loaned me one of his mountain bikes, and we rode the entire length and breadth of the trails over an hour or so. I forget how much fun mountain biking on the trails is, I need to do that more often. 

Saturday I was riding again with the 2MA group. However this must have been a busy week for people, because only 4 people showed up for the Saturday morning ride, all A group riders. I was going to beg off and let them go without me, but they all protested and insisted I come with them. They were definitely slowing down for me, but I rode with them as far as Patona Bay before peeling off and heading back. It was a good ride. I wonder how much I am limited by my equipment as far as riding goes, with a steel bike from the 80s that wasn't high-end even then. But anyway. I came back via Leesburg; I should have waited around by the depot because the rest of the group came back that way around half an hour later. I had about 26 miles at the end, they had around 40. 

In the evening on Saturday, the kids wanted to go to the mall in FW so we went. Had dinner, they walked around the mall a while, and we went home. Sunday there was a work party for the place where Beth works, which was mostly a get-together at the boss' lake house on Winona Lake. Nice place. Nice people. They had pulled pork BBQ and some frisbee games, and the kids went out with a couple of the grownups to go tubing or just boating.