I went to Luke’s basketball practice yesterday morning. They were working on their full court press and their press breaker. Honestly, they ran it better than the varsity/junior varsity did at the practice I went to with them. Nice job, youngsters.
After lunch (grilled burgers by Josh) Chris secretly nabbed a great video of Luke dancing to some “in” song. Looked like some kind of ice skating combined with neck stretching, with a little bit of finger puppetry at the end that seemed to be a duck quacking the lyrics. I, for one, was duly impressed.
AnnaGrace invited Nana to accompany her to the costume fitting for her role in The Nutcracker Ballet. Quite a prestigious offer, for sure. Significant enough that Chris agreed to stay behind from the football game. Luke chose the stay behind option as well. He just wasn’t interested in the two and a half hour drive one way to sit in the cold and rain, followed by another two and a half hour drive back around midnight.
So, around two o’clock, Josh, Caleb and I set out on the long trek to the tiny town of Baird, Texas. It was apparently the only town close enough to the midpoint between the team we were playing from Lubbock and Waco that had a six man football field available for the playoffs.
We saw one rather disturbing sight on the road. A dead deer. OK. That’s not so unusual in and of itself. But this one didn’t have a head. It had been cut clean off with an extremely sharp blade. Perfect cut. Someone wanted that trophy. Or perhaps it was done by laser. By aliens? Hmm.
We were on site by 4:30. Josh and I decided it was just too cold to go into the field right away. We stayed in the truck until a little closer to game time.
The game couldn’t have gone any better. The defense (Caleb’s crew) shut down everything the opponents attempted. And the offense was just as effective. They scored every time they had a possession. As a result, the good guys scored their 45th point with less than 2 minutes remaining in the half. All the defense had to do was hold them for one possession. In a nutshell … they did. And with the mercy rule in effect, the game ended at halftime. Good thing. It started a cold rain right about then. Way to go, good guys.
The announcer thanked us for coming, and added this admonition: “Be safe driving home, and watch out for hogs and deer.” Never heard that one.
One final word about the evening. Since Chaselyn was with us (we gave her a ride), of course we told some “interesting” stories about Caleb’s wonderful childhood. Josh had some really funny stuff.
Oh, and many, many kudos to Chaselyn. She was subjected to a flurry of questions on the way home. Some of them were even serious.
John 1:5 says, That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.
Father, thank you for riding with us on that long drive. And thanks for watching over the boots on the field. Amen.
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