At the beginning of the year I mentioned that i was trying to read one book per month, and I have done a good job to keep that goal intact. However, with the summer I have been getting a little slack, and haven’t read much at all in July. The other day we were at our good friends Scott and Deb Smith’s…really they are good friends because they have an in-ground pool. I told Jenn 3 years ago when we met them that we needed to be nice because one day they were going to have a pool and we wanted to be able to swim and pee in it…LOL. This summer all that phony niceness finally PAID OFF!!!!
So we are sitting around the pool and Scott told me about this book he read called, “The Art of Racing in the Rain”. The title was not interesting at all…I heard the word “art” and stopped listening. LOL It’s about a dog named “Enzo” and the book is actually written from his perspective…he is reflecting on his life. Being a dog lover I was intrigued by it, and took it home and read it in 3 days.
Once I picked it up I couldn’t put it down…I found myself laughing, pondering, and even crying (I told Jenn I cried…hoping I get to cash that in tonight) as Enzo talks you through his adoption, his journey with his family that includes the death of his owners wife (brain cancer) and the ensuing custody battle between his owner and his wife’s parents, and how every step of the way they needed him and he was a rock to support them…
I don’t want to give too much away…just look it up. The Art of Racing in the Rain.
We got some great news from Jenn’s sister Sara about the cancer. 2 of the lumps are gone, and the biggest one is still there but has shrunk a lot…from 3 centimeters to 5 millimeters. Also her lymph nodes are half the size they were. That is AWESOME. We are continuing to pray.
The Loser is…
Tim Horton’s running out of an ingredient needed to make Iced Coffee…what??? That’s like McDonald’s running out of burgers, KFC running out of chicken, or the movie theatre running out of movies. Get your act together Timmy’s…LOL.
Big Papi winning the home run derby on Monday night. It was a great performance by him, and I was glad to see it come down to him and Hanley Ramirez. Way to go Ortiz…and some people said you had nothing left in the tank.
The Loser is…
Tuesday night at ball I was playing short stop, and a guy on the other team was stretching a single into a double, and as I was catching the ball from the outfield, I also caught a cleat from the guy sliding in “man town”…seriously. I am just glad I was wearing a cup. The best part was the guy jumping up and saying it was a clean slide. I guess the way to slide nowadays is to have your feet 3 feet off the ground.
Clearly our trip to Connecticut to see Jenn’s family and Rhode Island to spend some time with mine. In CT I let Sara shave my head so we would match, had a great time at Jenn’s mom’s 60th b-day party, saw “Grown-Ups” with my brother in law Rich, and had some great food and time with Jenn’s fam. Then in RI we spent more time in my parents pool than any human being should…I think we grew gills. Also hit the beach for a day in Newport. It was an awesome time.
The Loser is…
Trips are always a blast, but coming home to mounds of laundry is NOT. We are cleaning up and getting back to life as normal.
