Niece Weekend

Wow, wasn’t that a weekend? I will try and keep from going on and on like usual.

Lets see, I ended up going down to the Detroit area Saturday morning returning on Sunday evening. I saw several basketball games and celebrated my Sisters birthday ... THE END.

OK, maybe that is a little to condensed.

My nieces first game was actually their third game. They had won to games last weekend to qualify for the semi finals. They were playing a very dirt team and the rat bastards that were calling their game referees were obviously payed off by the other team, they just had to be. I mean the calls were very one sided.

Our main points scorer was off her game something terrible although she still scored the most points for the day. She hit her first basket and the was the last time we saw the lead throughout almost the entire game. We came down to seconds left on the clock and they were losing 13 to 12. Yes this is a very low scoring game. They were matching up pretty well with out team playing the other team and the referees. If only our first string could hit the basket or, more importantly rebound something, ANYTHING.

The ball was in position for a win on our part but we could not sink a basket for anything. I had my eye buried in my camera viewfinder so I saw the ball go up and heard the buzzer sound and then it happened. I heard the old familiar sound of a basketball swishing the net and our team won 14 to 13. Not that I would know because missed seeing it looking through the view finder.

Day two brought our rivals that we had won several times this year but they have always been the competition. They play a hard dirty game. Nothing changed there but this time our first string were was on. The final score does not reveal it but this was a nail biter throughout. In the end we pulled off a victory 28 to 24 and took fist place.

I also was able to see my niece cheer for the sixth grade basketball team. They did pretty good and so did the boys as they won their game against the same school that my nieces team had won against earlier. I was very proud of my niece this weekend.

We managed to celebrate my Sisters birthday in there somewhere and that was nice. We made pizza for the first time in years and you know what, I will take one of the pizza’s we make over a store bought one any day of the week. There were no left overs that day. We did a little activity and jabber jawed a little played a game called Apples to Apples. OK, I love this game now. I think I need to go out and buy the game.

Over the weekend I was burning up my camera. I have never taken so many pictures in ... well ever. Lets just say that if I were taking film pictures I would have spent over $350 in film, processing and printing and would have changed out almost 50 rolls of 36 exposure film. Yikes once again I got a bit carried away. I have seen two thirds of the pictures and most turned out well. Two pictures in the cheerleading series I absolutely love. Many more I think are sharp. The first set I was not paying attention to but was looking for a certain situation. Still I can see I am improving at shooting basketball.

Surprise, I could not figure out why the camera did not seem to be focusing properly and yet the pictures where turning out. Turns out that there is an adjustment called the diopter adjustment to adjust the camera view finder to your eye and I guess I must have been playing with it. That explains so much. It has been like that for a while. I am so glad I finally figured that out.

Well that was my weekend, a very exciting and fun one at that. Time to head into work. Happy Monday...


The only good Monday is a Monday in bed. –Dark Season