The week after vacation is never a good time. Two events this week in particular fit that bill... on Tuesday, softball returned after a smoke-out and July 4. Unfortunately, there was also the fair this week and camp and other summer things, so we only had 5 players show up for the game. When it became apparent we weren't going to make it to a legal team, the other team agreed to play and loaned us a couple players, we also were able to "recruit" a couple more who were at the park but not actively playing at the time, so we played a game with 9 against 9. And, sort of chutzpah I think, we won. However, it was reported as just a scrimmage and not a real game, but they agreed to make up the game later on in the season. Which they didn't have to do, so that was nice.

On Friday, my group at work had another get-together for lunch and boating. After the morning, the group met up at a colleague's house on Barbee Lake and took their boat to Lakelife Restaurant for lunch. After lunch we just boated around the chain of lakes that is Barbee for a while until it was time to head home. It's amazing how much Barbee has grown/improved since Beth and I moved into the area. It used to be a pretty shabby dump but now it's quite big and new.

In the evening, the whole family went up to South Bend for my Father's Day / birthday present. Beth adn the kids had gotten me (and them) tickets to see a comedy show at the Morris Center. It was sponsored by Pulse FM and was a "clean comedy" event, with 3 comedians in the entire show. Two of them were really good, including the opener who made some jokes about "Flippin Arkansas" which Beth and I thought were very funny. The middle comedian was not good. He was just kind of an angry ranter and made silly faces and yelled. Un-funny, really. The headliner, a guy called Michael Junior, was really good and funny and had a great witness. So, 2 outa 3 comedians were good.'

The weekend was pretty chill, the kids worked some, I did quite a bit of yard work. Not a lot else. But that was cut short Sunday afternoon when I was mowing the grass in the backyard and went over a nest of yellowjackets. I got stung on the ankle first, which I thought at first might have been a thorn or a stick in my shoe, but I knew what it was when the second sting on my calf and the third behind my knee came within moments, which sent me running for the house. Then a few seconds later came the 4th sting, on my left butt cheek. It must have been just like the cartoons, with the wasps forming up into an arrow shape as they chased me and making an electric buzzing sound as the arrow hit my rear end as I ran. So I stripped and got in the shower right away, and the welts started coming up. By evening the swelling was going down a bit so maybe it won't be so bad. They do itch a lot though.