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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Down River Days
Nakusp Music Festival
Our next adventure this summer was our annual pilgrimage to the Nakusp Music Festival. It was a very good lineup this year. There was Bachman & Turner, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Corb Lund and the Hurtin Albertans, The Mudmen, Doc Walker, Bif Naked and my new favorite band Delhi 2 Dublin.
Delhi 2 Dublin is a Vancouver based band that combines Celtic such a fun band to watch and very original. Bachman & Turner were also very good. It is such a nice relaxing weekend. Len and I take our lawn chairs and get to the front gate and as soon as it opens we head to our usual location and proceed to stay there for the day, until the last acts ends for the night, then we walk back to our room at the Leland Hotel. Luckily the weather was good again. We had a few showers but overall we were fine, it wasn’t too hot this year.
Our friends Bob
Summer Slow Pitch
Len played slow pitch this year with two teams. He was in the A division with the U-Betchas and the C division with the Coffin Dodgers. It was pretty busy for June and July between practices and games. He had at least two games per week and the Coffin dodgers practice twice a week. He usually pitches but sometimes he played in the outfield
The pictures are of Lenny pitching, umping and my favorite of him running the bases. He tried to tell me that the ball was in his way and he was jumping over it but I think he just runs the bases funny. He is known for running them very quickly, he is known for taking a double and extending it into a triple. A lot of times once he gets running it is difficult for him to stop so it is easier for him just to keep running. Usually it works for him.
On the July 8 weekend he had the A division tournament, they unfortunately lost the first game, so the second game was out in Canyon. I didn’t get to see the whole game because one of the female players took a ball to the face and I had to take her to the hospital emergency room for stitches, by the time we got back to the field the game was over and they had lost. This however this wasn’t surprising considering that the team didn’t win a game all year. The team is hoping to get moved down a division next year because the A division was not for them.
I did get to play a game during the tournament because they were short handed. I actually managed to hit the ball, catch it and not make a fool out of myself. However the next day my butt was so sore. I think my sciatic nerve was acting up. I have played a couple more fun games during the summer, it is actually quite fun. Len almost has me convinced to play next year. Not sure what team I will play for, but it does mean that I am going to have to get in better shape. I might also have do some more practicing, I haven’t really played since high school.
Thompson Mountain
The beginning of the summer seemed to start when Tanis and Adrianne arrived from Virginia. They came for two weeks and we started off their vacation by taking the Jeep up to Thompson Mt. We were lucky that it was only slightly hazy so we could see for miles. Of course I had to take my GPS with me to see if there was a geocache at the top. No sense going all the way up there and finding out later that there was one there. Actually you can get to a couple from up that way but we didn’t feel like walking the long trails. It was a fun drive up only a few muddy areas because there was still snow up there.