6th, first Friday in September!

I think I am allowed to reminisce on weekends and here we are at Friday, the end of the first week of school this year for many.  Those thoughts bring me back to the many school teams I coached during my 38 years in education.  The list goes something like this:

• assist football coach at the School for the Deaf in Devils Lake
• 7/8 grade basketball coach at the School for the Deaf in Devils Lake
• baseball coach at Highland Junior
• boys soccer coach at Highland Junior
• girls soccer coach at Highland Junior
• boys soccer coach at Highland Catholic 
• girls soccer coach at Highland Catholic
• girls soccer coach at Trinity

Perhaps the most hectic time was when I coached soccer at Highland Junior and soccer at Trinity both in the fall of the same year.  That was a bit crazy.  Hands down the most athletic youth I ever coached was Drexel Lawson at the School for the Deaf.  I coached him as a 7th and 8th grade basketball player BUT his sport was track.  While a senior he won the state track championship for the school by winning the 100, 200, 400 and the long jump!  I have never seen a track athlete do what he did.  In the 200 and 400 he would come around the last bend and be about even but then he put it into overdrive and would pull away with ease.  

I need to over seed part of the front yard lawn today.  I think I will cut it low and then spread seed as it is supposed to rain Sunday and Monday.  The second bid I received for re sodding part of the front lawn was $6100+.  Don't think I need nor want to go there.  For that money I could catch a first class flight to Hawaii, stop at Costco and buy 164 pounds of Kona coffee and fly home and the money would have been better spent!!!  Of course I will do neither!

Cool weather stays with us.  Seventy-five today but then 6 of the next 9 days we will have highs in the 60s.  In Naples that is often the low in January!

With 4 pounds of Kona coffee burning a hole in the basement shelf I HAD to open one and grind a pound.  Oh my to put fresh ground Kona in the stainless steel FP pot and wait for 10 minutes is almost heaven!  I would say coffee for this morning and no need for food!