Mother's Day at Ruttger's

May 8, 2010

Hey there-

How goes it? We “enjoyed” some May snow yesterday. We’re spending Mother’s Day weekend in the Brainerd area, and I think there was something like three inches. Craziness! I’m happy to report that as of about 10 a.m., it was completely gone and we’ve enjoyed a beautiful sunny day.

Chris and I indulged ourselves with some Ficus enterprises (Chris’ vending machine empire, in case you don’t know) profits and bought a Garmin for running this week. It’s pretty much the coolest dang thing ever for a couple of running nerds such as ourselves. We had eight miles scheduled for this morning, and it was awesome to just take off and go and have your time and distance measured, requiring no thought or advanced planning whatsoever. We got to run along lovely Bay Lake, and despite yesterday’s snow (BOO!), it turned out to be a splendido day for a run.

Jerod had his first soccer practice of the season this week. He is a member of the mighty Pelicans. At this point in time, I am receiving a failing grade as a soccer mom. The coach sent an email a couple of weeks ago. Being that it’s “summer soccer,” I quickly skimmed it with the intent of reading more carefully and digesting the info later. On May 3 I got around to reading more closely and read “first practice will be Apri 28.” DOH. I then saw that the next practice would be May 5. Cool, I think, I can get us on the ball now. It also mentioned that the first game would be coming up at Pamela Park. So, on Wednesday we got J all suited up and headed to Pamela Park. There was no sign of Pelicans anywhere. The email was older, so neither Chris nor I could pull it up on our phone, so we had to go all the way back home to pull it up. Turns out practice was at Normandale Park. Double DOH! We did make it to the last 15 minutes of practice. Ugh.

Chris and I got to trek back to Target field last Thursday. Sadly the weather was not as nice as it had been on our first visit. It was yucky rainy. We watched a few innings, then decided to head to Kieran’s to watch the end. The Twins stunk it up against the Orioles and lost 2-0, so I’m glad we didn’t stick around. Yesterday’s (Friday) game was cancelled due to crappy weather. First weather related baseball cancellation in 30 years for the Twins. I personally think it’s a good problem… well worth it to have outdoor baseball (though perhaps we should have given that retractable roof a little more consideration!). They dropped another one to the Orioles today… hopefully they’ll get back on track soon.

We found out this week that Elise had been assigned to a.m. kindergarten for the fall. I had really hoped for p.m., because she gets so stinking bored in the afternoons. One of my well connected Countryside neighbors this week managed to get her daughter and Elise switched to p.m. Yahoo!! She’s counting the days and ready to go J

That is pretty much all the news that Bernard Place has to offer this week.