I haven't vanished off the face of the earth. But it's been hectically crazy these last few days with all the high school spring sports finals I've been trying to cover. The final one was today, the U.P. Finals track meet. I started there about 9 a.m. and it finally ended about 5 p.m. I won't even estimate how many miles I walked, except to note that the distance from A to B was never a straight line.
Often, the shortest path from one event to another was shaped like a "W," and each leg of the W was about 100 yards long. Back and forth all day, trying to keep up with events here and there. My legs are tired.
It was mostly cloudy and muggy, but the sun popped out at times--long enough for me to get my first sunburn of the year.
Tomorrow (Sunday) I've got to write everything up and go through all the photos I took so we can put the paper together on Monday.
But that's the last really crazy week now until the fall sports start in late August. We'll have things like the rodeo and county fair and other events during the summer, but that coverage won't have to be as intense. But we had a good track team this spring, and they wound up in second place as a team--probably their best finish ever.
When I got home, I took everyone out for a pizza, and now I'm trying to catch up with what's happened during the day.
What's happening now is that there's some storms moving north through Wisconsin and up toward us. We've got a tornado watch until late tonight, and it's supposed to be stormy tomorrow.
Nonetheless, I enjoy thunderstorms. They're fun--especially when they move through during the night. The light flashing. The thunder rumbling. Mind you, I'm not talking about the scary storms, but rather the garden variety storms, which don't come around here that often. If we do get storms, they will be our first for this year--and it's already early June.
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