Big Game

Linda had been asked to work for FRYSC in town, so she left early for that job. Stacey went with me in the Mule across the creek. I had picked out a tree to cut down for firewood and we took the chainsaws along. I drove the Mule up close to the tree and unloaded the saw, then had Stacey back away far enough the tree could not hit her in the Mule. I notched the tree and knocked out the triangle shaped piece, then cut the tree from the opposite side just above the notch. It fell with a giant thud just about where I had wanted it to fall. I was lucky that time. I sawed off several pieces of the trunk and then needed a break. I restarted the saw and cut a few more pieces and then we quit. I drove the Mule back across the creek, to the hay shed and unloaded the saws. It was probably a record temperature for the day as it was nearly 76 degrees on the back porch thermometer when Stacey and I went inside. I took a shower and dressed to go to the ball game later on. We drove to the after school day care and found Linda working with the kids. She had been wrapping Christmas presents from the Angel Tree organization in town. Stacey and I went on and ate and drank a malt at the Tastee Freeze. We went to the school and went inside to watch the basket ball game. Cumberland County was playing Clinton County. I guess it's a big rivalry so the gym was packed on both sides. Jason came in right before the game started and Stacey had saved him a seat next to her. The Cumberland girls had a fairly easy first game and beat Clinton County's girls by about 20 points or more. I walked across the gym at a break in the action and talked to Guy and Tony Boils from Clinton County. They're the contractors that built our home. The boys game was hotly contested the entire game with Clinton taking a 9 point lead in the first half to be trimmed down to 2 points at half time. In the second half, Cumberland's boys fought back and took a lead, then lost it, then took another lead of about 6 points with about 2 minutes to go in the game. Clinton County's coach started taking the players in and out, using one group to foul and another group to try to score, but Cumberland's boys were able to hit enough free throws to win the game by about 8 points. Of course, there were different times during the game when each coach was jumping up and down and hollering at the referees. I guess it isn't a close game if that doesn't happen. With the home team winning both games, most of the crowd went away happy.