Timmy the catcher…again. His new coach’s son is also a catcher and his coach works hard on training them on techniques.
Yep, I’ve been scarce. I’ve been spending more time on my Facebook fan page than here, because I can pop up quick discussion items and engage with friends and fans that way.
That’s because baseball has started at the Vollmer house. And as the boys get older, their practice schedules become more intense. And as the practice becomes more intense, we are making more investments of time and protective equipment for them: new slider pants for Jacob, impact-resistant sports goggles for Timmy, a new catcher’s mitt for Timmy, a wheeled baseball bag for Jacob…
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum is in the old El Paso County Courthouse. This museum reminded me of the Old Florida State Capitol.
For a Cub Scout field trip, in mid-September our family visited the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum in the heart of downtown. The museum is free of charge (donations are always welcome), and has numerous artifacts from Colorado Springs’ past and current histories.
The interior of the museum is beautifully maintained, and most of the courthouse rooms have been repurposed into individual exhibit spaces. A couple of the rooms are still in tact as courtrooms and are used as multi-purpose auditoriums. During our visit we saw exhibits about the Waldo Canyon Fire of June 2012, the city’s Native American heritage, the history of the Colorado Springs area being used as a popular location for sanatoria, as well as a history of the city as told through photographs taken at the time.
The museum is located at 215 South Tejon St. in downtown Colorado Springs. Museum admission is free, but you have to pay to park either at the parking meters immediately surrounding the property, or else at the public parking garages nearby. Enjoy a few pictures from our visit.
Like a heel, I forgot to bring our good camera, but I was able to get a bunch of nice iPhone pictures of Pack 105’s participation in the Pensacola Veteran’s Day Parade. First I have to show off these two pictures because they melted my heart! Now for this year’s event. I was the coordinator … Read more
Just before I took my October trip to Nebraska the family did a Cub Scout Family Camping Event near Defuniak Springs. This is our 3rd time going to a Fam Camp event, so this time around the family could be more laid back. The Cub Scout family camp experience includes the same activities: fishing, swimming, … Read more
Pensacola went without a minor league baseball team for a season while this ballpark was under construction. This the Blue Wahoos' inaugural season.
After a day of the boys playing baseball, we headed out to downtown Pensacola for an evening with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos — the city’s brand new AA Minor League baseball team. They had a team called the Pelicans until 2010, but for summer 2011, there was no professional baseball in the area. We’re excited to have a team to watch locally now.
There was a Scout parade at 6pm but we didn’t get to the park in time. Instead, we chose to stop for dinner.
The park isn’t that big, it seats 5,000 people, so there weren’t really poor seats anywhere. We were at the very end of the first base line…which still gave us a good view of the game itself, but we could barely see the scoreboard. Jacob, our statistics boy, was trying to track the speeds of the pitches.
The USS Alabama trip is truly one of the highlights of the scout year for my boys’ pack. I was the coordinator for the trip this year, even though females aren’t allowed to remain on the ship if it’s a male-booking. Everything went surprisingly well; the kids and male chaperones seemed to have a great time!
Hello friends! I have a lot to talk about — but I need time to sit down and just do it. Things have gotten pretty busy here…between my involvement in the base Spouses’ Club and Cub Scouts, I’ve been spending more time with community work than ever before! The boys started baseball a couple weeks … Read more
Why I FAILED to post yesterday, and thus FAILED at the NaBloPoMo contest for this year. 1.) I was playing Glitch quite a bit on Sunday. I was trying to earn enough money for a super-big new house and that took about 3 hours of my day. 2.) I was busy with Cub Scouts. Timmy’s … Read more
There are so many skills to be learned when cooking: math, nutrition, chemistry, physics! Dave Update: We had a rough couple of days. Incidentally, we had read another Axia-LIF patient’s online blog/diary/series of forum posts that read rather similarly. At about the one-week point, the patient was feeling better, he thought he could move around … Read more
You know that picture from yesterday where I showed the kids getting interviewed for the Pensacola News Journal? They led off on a small online story today! Here’s the picture below, and here’s the story! Enjoy! And yes, the title really does say “Pensacola parade attracts hundreds.” Hundreds. Small town living we have here. 🙂 … Read more
