Rain Rain Go Away

A week ago I got up to beautiful sunshine and thought "Damn". The dry spell had not broken and the ground continued to get parched as the moisture evaporated out of it. We spent the weekend in Kingston where they were in worse shape then Carleton Place, with yellow grass everywhere.

This morning I woke up to the sound of rain and I'm thinking "Enough already!" The past week has seen copious amounts of rain sprayed on Ontario and its getting to the point where we need some sunshine to help the plants process the moisture and nutrients and grow.

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Fortunately yesterday was dry enough to allow Andrew and I to get our weekly tennis game in. (Note to Shannon: if he doesn't exist, I'm having a hell of a time beating a fictional character.) I'm proud to say I came out on top in the main set this week but lost in the second mini-set which was the opposite result of last week. We are pretty evenly matched right now: he's a slightly better player but he's often trying to make more difficult returns with the end result being as long as I get it back to him, its 50-50 whether or not he'll smoke it past me or hit it wild. I'm getting a slightly better first serve hit rate but he is more capable of returning them back to me so that balances out too.

Fortunately, we seem to be improving at the same rate. My control of returns has greatly improved that past two weeks and I started working on getting more power into them last night. I fondly remember one or two shots where I hit it hard enough to force the error on Andrew rather than waiting for him to make it.

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Its Kim's birthday tomorrow and she'll be 31 (shhhhh!). We are having her immediate family and her best friend and kids out for a small party in the afternoon. Hopefully the rain holds off and lets us have our BBQ. Tonight Kim and her mother are have a girl's movie night (ick!) so I might rent some stupid horror/sci fi/action flick to watch in the basement. Any recommendations?