10:30am - Well, the Flyers came up short last night. I'm a little nervous to be honest. They lost 4-2. It seemed like the Flyers came out trying the same game plan that had gotten them to this point - offense first and then rely on the defense and Brion to pick up the slack. Well it was obvious that didn't work last night. The Flyers were playing well but the Pens put in an early goal. The Flyers then answered with two of their own to take a 2-1 lead. It was all Pens from then on. Game 2 is tomorrow night. Let's hope for a different outcome. I'm really thinking Stevens should try Kapanen back on the blueline. He's done it before. Modry only looked bad on the first goal though...other than that he was pretty solid. I think the Pens just showed they really came to play.

Toward the end of the game the boys asked if they could work on their stories. I'm oncall this week so I had the oncall laptop and my regular laptop so each was working on their stories while we watched the end of the game. They're not getting that far but they're trying!

11:00am - I'm about to take the boys out for breakfast and then to the fish hatchery. Something we did when they were younger, partly as a good-will gesture to Christl. It gives her a little time to herself which we all need.

9:15pm - Nana and PopPop came up for dinner tonight. We played street hockey for a little while. Both JT and Dylan took turns in goal. Christl is going over to Keith and Sue's house to watch a movie so the boys have the house to ourselves!!! Now Jt and Dylan have asked to create their very own website so I'm going to help them work on that. You can check out their handywork at http://johntfritsch.googlepages.com and http://dylanmfritsch.googlepages.com. Needless to say it's a little confusing for them but it's good exposure to some of the things they can do with computers. I had a moment when I was in the middle of helping them and JT shook his head and expressed how he was confused by the whole process. I thought back to my early days with computers. There was no internet, no World Wide Web. No tools to automatically create web pages for you - even if there were tools it would take forever to upload them at 300bps! Kind of funny. Maybe one day he'll read this in some kind of archive and point out to his kids that waaaay back we used to use a thing called the Internet. Who knows what my grandkids will have in place of it.

I have barely started my garden this year - right now I have a whole three rows of radishes planted. The kids have 1 each of watermelon, sunflower and pumpkin plants growing inside. We'll plant them outside pretty soon.

We (I) planted a silver maple tree not too far from the well. It was started naturally from a seed that fell into the garden last year. It came from Skip's tree between our house and the pond. It's real close to about 4ft tall now. I think it would be growing even quicker if the crab apple tree next to it were gone......I wonder how well crab apple wood burns? :)