A Hot Saturday

It has been quite a hot and humid day.  Woody, again, got up early and walked...today he walked four miles. Later in the morning he ran an errand and also made his weekly trip to the library.  I have had a "do a little of this and a little of that" kind of day.  I ran the vacuum downstairs in the living room and dining room...still have to hit the high spots in the family room.  Woody finished washing off the porch chairs and got them back on the front porch.  I ran the pillows around in the dryer and then wiped them off with a damp cloth and got them back on the rockers and glider.  I also came up with a pretty dirty rag after wiping off the two table tops and the things that were on the little tables.  The porch is once again welcoming to sit...that is if the temperatures aren't too high.  I just checked and it is 84 degrees right now but the feels-like temperature is 90...an indication of our high humidity.  I imagine that it felt close to 100 after it got into the 90's this afternoon.

The girls had some more tournament games today, but we didn't go...just too hot for me to sit out in the sun for any length of time.  The girls are playing against surrounding area softball teams...these teams are teams that play together all the time plus most of the girls on the other teams seem to be older than our girls.  Our girls are made up of all stars their age (6th-8th grades) from all the different softball teams in Tullahoma.  They have never even practiced together before they played last night.  Plus there are different rules in different areas which made for some confusing plays/calls last night.  And, the pitchers on the other teams really pitch fast compared to our teams.  The team we played last night pretty much ran away with the game and they were supposed to be the weakest team that our girls would play.  So they went into all the games pretty much expecting to be beaten and they were at all three games that they played.  But it was a good experience for all of them.  Nathan said that they did better in the last game this evening...so perhaps they were starting to get the feel of being a team?

Both cars finished getting washed this afternoon.  Esther enjoyed getting wet and thought that she would go to her game in her wet uniform so she could keep cool.  Woody and I watched Joy practice pitching to Nathan for a little while this afternoon.  Their team's coach told them to keep acclimated to the hot temperatures so it wouldn't seem so hot to them at their 5pm game.