Another view of my favorite Still Waters place at Butler...Matt and I arrived a little early, so we sat here and he spent 20 minutes trying to walk me through leaving a message on my cell phone...after 20 minutes, he said, "Give me the phone, Mom." The message on it is the result. I know you will all be amused at my expense. Maybe next weekend.
A weekend of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The Good, of course, were wins on the field by Carmel at sectionals, and IU Football (vs. Ball State). The Bad, although it ended Good, were the Iowa Hawks who took forever and day to rally for a win after a really bad start...have we just given up on post season football bids there in IC or what? And, the truly ugly was the tortuous game Friday night where Guerin went down to the Sheridan Blackhawks 48-7, followed closely by the Colts' loss to the Patriots today.
The best of all, however, was today as the IU Hoos played an exhibition basketball game...and what's not to love about winning 121-76 against North Alabama...exhibition games being our chance to see a bit of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly coming up during hoop season this year. A lot of it looked good...especially the looking fairly quick bit, D.J. White being able to play both ends, and Crawford's three point shooting spree. The bad really only being the injury list at this point. The ugly being, well we won't discuss that here as Mark just goes off on a tangent about the little mess down there with recruiting violations as he has no patience (and why should he?) with things like that...it's not like Sampson is not familiar with the problem...yikes...losing a scholarship, etc. isn't sitting very well here in Hooville. 9th in the country? Hmmm...well, it's early yet, maybe, maybe not, and we take whatever they want to give us at this point, right? It's a start! (Which is more than we can say for that sad exhibition BB game the Hawks put together Thursday night...although they did win...we will give them that.) I think we have to wait until Saturday to check out the Red Raiders and get a look at Bob's team this year...we know Zeno is looking good with his honorable mention in the pre-season Wooden Award Top 50 Candidates List...now if we just got TTTN.
In other Good, Bad, and Ugly news: IYC concert was really good; the swim times were fairly good, a bad one here and there, but it is early in an aging up year, so our expectations are a bit different at this juncture; the weather was absolutely gorgeous all weekend; and the tomato vines were granted a week's stay for Chip, good deal! This weekend went way too fast. How about there?