Soccer

It's that time of year. That's right ...Soccer time. Here we see Ryan on a break away that he would score on. He had 2 other chances at goals but pulled up a little short. Great job Ryan.
Then we visited Cassie's game. Now you have to understand that the older kids play the more conventional style. Cassie playing defence today done a fine job.

Maybe the next games won't be at the same time ?

The ride home

Well if you have looked at Caulkboys blog I'm sure you are wondering what this story is all about. Grab a beer and let me tell you all about it. We are coming home from Greeneville Sunday afternoon and we are talking about what went on at the Trials and what we could have done better and what not. Then I feel a vibration in the truck. When I looked in the mirror I see that a tire on the trailer has blown out. No big deal we are at an exit so we pull over take a leak and change the tire ( or tyre for you F1 fans ). We are back on the road in about 30 minutes. About 10 miles down the road I feel another vibration , the other trailer tire blows out. Shit!! Now what? I see a big open spot where I can get clear off the road and change the tire. Now I'm going to have to drop the trailer and go find someone to put a new one on bring it back put it on the trailer and head on home. Not so lucky , when I pulled over and got out to inspect the damage Barry notices that the truck tires are going flat also. We look and find a 3 inch gash in both of the right side tires. I didn't know what I run over but it took out all 3 tires on the right side.

Now we are in a pickle. 3 flats and one spare. What to do? I call my insurance company . They give me some numbers of towing company's. Sunday night at 7 .... no answer. We done this about 3 times before Barry said lets call the THP. I was not in favor of this since I've been drinking all day , but we were f#*%ed. So we give them a call and guess what , it takes 3 calls to get the right county since I didn't have a clue where we were at. I was glad to see the officer pull up.

So that leads to this picture. This is Trooper David Jones. This man was cool as hell. He got me a wrecker in about 20 minutes. He also messed with me like I mess with everybody I meet. I told him that I blew a tire and when I pulled over I run over a road sign that had been cut off , but they left the post sticking up about 4 inches out of the ground and when I pulled off the road I run over the post and took out both tires on the truck. Well the wrecker shows up and I tell the driver to take this thing to Smyrna cause there is no where open to get a tire changed. He said no problem. Now this guy weighs about 350 and his wife is with him and shes just about one bag of M&M's shy of her husband. We all pile into the cab and guess what happens to the 160 pound guy. Well I'm jambed in there like a sardine , but happy to be headed home. At one time I looked at the speedometer and we were going 85 mph. I'm thinking cool were going to get home faster than if I would be driving. Until we met up with THP PRICK. After getting a $200 ticket we were back on the road. Finally getting home the tow bill was $425 and the new tires came to $350 , but I won the trials after damn near killing my self doing a Superman down a hill. What a good week end. Thanks to Bob for stopping and checking on me.

Greeneville Trials

Starting from the beginning. When you go to a Trial in the rugged woods with terrain that you can barely walk on you have to find a spot some what level to set up your tent. We thought that this spot next to the tennis court would be the ticket.
After a hard and hot day of setting up the sections it was time to sit around the camp fire and drink a few and play a few tunes. The camp fire ended up being a Colman lanturn due to the heat , but thats all right.

Here is Malcolm playing while one of 3 Great Danes gets into the music. The dogs were cool and had a great time hanging with a cool bunch of Trials riders.

OK here is the first picture of Barry in his first section at his first Trials. Sorry about the blurred photo's but I was as nervous as he was.

This hill was kicking his ass all day , but he did manage to get it on the last loop. I was pretty proud of the way that he rode because he had never been on any terrain like this. Steep hills , loose leaves , loose dirt , but handled it well. Check out his blog here for more imformation.

More golf

Here's the latest golf scores for you to look at until we get back from Greeneville Tn. We played pretty good considering it was 110 degrees. We didn't have any crazy par's or funny off the tree in the hole par's. It was just a good old golf game.
I will have a full report from the Trial when we get back on Monday.

Virgen Trials

This Sunday will not only mark the First Trails for the I.T.S.A. group at Geeneville Tn. , it will be the maiden voyage of Barry . Barry has practiced hard and I think is ready for the task at hand. We will be going to Greeneville Friday night so we can help setup Saturday. When you make a effort to help in laying out the Trial you tend to have a lot more fun because you have had a hand in what you have to ride.
I've been waiting a long time for this weekend and I'm sure I won't be disappointed. The only thing that is going to be better is going to be when Troy and Barry ride together.

It's hot

What would you give for this right now?

PeeWee and I went fishin last Sunday and its so hot and dry that the only fish we caught had a tick on it. Now that's dry. The weather service has posted 107 degrees at Smyrna at this time. I don't think I've ever seen it that high.

Hardly football weather , but the Titans open this weekend against Washington. I wonder how many beers I will have to drink to stay hydrated?