A day of rest

Day 37, "Every picture has a story"

This is the Letterman's club VIPs(👏) at Sargent Central in the school year of 1964/65.  Mr. Hanson had been our football coach our first 3 years and was a GREAT coach.  He left Sargent Central and Mr. Murry came on to be the football coach.  He knew NOTHING and the year was a disaster..  I, as the captain,  felt a lot of responsibility for the team BUT our coach was awful to say it in a good way. We went on to a 1-6 record and it certainly could have been 0-7.  Here John C, Larry F and myself are officers for the Letterman's club.  At the time of the picture John had a broken arm and that meant he missed most of the football season.  Mr. Murray put in a freshman quarterback and that did not go very well.  However it did NOT diminish the good times of my HS days.

Well tennis went KIND of good but kind of not so good yesterday.  Court #3 lost in a 10 point match tie breaker.  Court #2 lost in 2 straight sets but the second, 4-6 was close.  Karl and I on court #1 played the best we could in the heat.  With temps at 88 I am guessing the court temp was well into the 90s. Karl played at an A- level and I played at a B.  We fell behind in set 1 and then rallied to no avail as we lost a 7 point set tie breaker.  Now we were looking at a match tie breaker if we were to win and we thought we could.  We got off to a strong start in set 2 and led 3-0 before winning 6-3.  From there it was a 10 point match tie breaker.  It almost seems like those match tie breakers are a flip of the coin BUT Karl and I did have a strategy and it worked.  We forged ahead 3-0, allowed them to tie 7-7 but won 10-8.  A good win for sure.  At this point I have maybe 4 players for next week and maybe only 3.  IF I only have 3 I will forfeit the entire match and encourage the players to have a good Holiday on Thursday.  Our matches are on Wednesday.

The rain came early and stayed late.  We had several downpours shortly after 8 last night and as I write it is still raining.  I drove over to the courts in the rain and they look like they are down for the count today.  It will be good for the clay and I am guessing it will also be good for people who play 5-7 days a week.

So it is decision time, what do I do with my time today?  Well there is plenty to do so will sit back and decide soon.  Could mean cleaning up some paper messes, could mean going some places, could mean an afternoon nap(😁), could mean some work on a new calendar book for Terry and I etc.  One can catch the idea, there is plenty to do IF I choose to get myself in gear.  Maybe on a rainy day it should be a refreshing drink and a good book.  Decisions, decisions!!!

My FP seemed to just invite me into a special pleasure this morning, can't ask for more that that!