I know it's been forever, and yes the title is misspelled on purpose, you know me better than that, but I thought I'd give this another try. I'm tiring of Facebook, and there's not enough room for all this anyway. Not to mention, 340 of 350 people that have friended me wouldn't care. No more than I care about their political rumblings, or their futile little bullshit, or petty, squabbles, that they think we should all know about and take sides. So, here goes.
Well, Matt's basketball season hasn't gotten off to the greatest of starts. The team is 0-4, and has been beaten pretty badly the in the first 3 of them. Last nights game was quite an improvement. The other team wasn't twice the size of our team. Canton loses a ton of kids to wrestling. We even had a lead going into the fourth quarter. Matthew has played great in every game, without exception. He leads the team in scoring, rebounds and fouls. He leads the team in scoring despite the fact that he only had one point in the second game of the year. But, he had 10 rebounds, or 12, I can't remember.
Last night they played North Penn, or Blossberg. Must be a consolidated school. Matt had 9 points, could have had 20. 8 rebounds, he got everything he was close to, he's a real scrapper. Or, as they say here, he's one rowdy boy out there. 4 fouls, almost got the fifth, but they just wouldn't call it for him. 3 blocked shots, 2 assists, a steal and a partridge in a pear tree. Nobody has taken a rebound away, that he's touched, yet, unless its been a team mate and he let go. He's actually quite a bit stronger than I gave him credit for being. And he just doesn't quit. Hard headed little (6' 1 1/2") shit. It's been one of my greatest joys, just being able to watch him play. I've only watched him play once before this year. Now 4 times in less than a week. They play Monday, Wednesday and Friday, every week, almost without fail. During the Christmas break, they have a tournament that mom, James and Brayden will get to watch.
Matthew's stats for the year are, 24 points, 30 rebounds, 18 fouls, 4 blocks, 4 assists and 1 steal, through 4 games. Averaging 6 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4.25 fouls, 1 block, 1 assist and .25 steals. The points are skewed by a 1 point game. Everything else is about right.
I mentioned mom getting to watch Matt play. Yep, her and James are coming up and bringing Bug, Brayden, with them. They get here the 23rd and leave the 29th, taking Matthew with them for his Christmas with Angie's family. Aiden will be here in 4 days, on the 19th and Arron on the 22nd, so we should have a blast for Christmas. Natalie opted out, choosing the flight money over coming up, she's saving for a car..... Either way, I'll see her on her birthday at the end of January.
Oh, and tomorrow, 12-16, is our anniversary. We will have been married for 2 years. We've talked about it and agree that it seems like 10, in mostly good ways. We've had our struggles, for sure, but things seem to be looking up. We don't have to work together any more, so we get a little separation. That's helped a lot. We have a dog now. We live in a modest house on an incredible private lake. Yes, you've heard that before, but I wake up amazed every damn day. Today it's 3/4 iced over. I'm just waiting for it to thaw so I can check my fishing poles.
Matthew and I are trying to provide all the meat, except for the pulled pork I'm gonna do, for the week of Christmas. We, he, has gotten us a couple pheasants that were gonna do cacciatore style. Cacciatore means hunter in Italian, so it's fitting. He's also killed us a nice, fat, doe, so we'll be having deer tenderloin one day. I'm trying to haul a few fishies out of the lake for us. We're also working to get a few ducks and a couple of geese to the table. That's not going so well, because the ponds are LAKES up here, but we're trying. I'm wondering how rabbit will go over...... Might slip that in there too, but I promise NO SQUIRREL! Those suckers are a lot of work for just a little meat, and its hard to keep the hair off the meat, but they taste really good.
I guess that's about it for today. Hope everyone is ok. Maybe more tomorrow, but Monday or Tuesday for sure.
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