Right Time, Right Place

Have you ever just been in the right place at the right time...and had your camera ready??? I was driving down 53rd South yesterday evening, I had just replaced the batteries in my camera and it was on the seat right beside me when a big white truck pulled up next to me with this in the passenger seat...

I grabbed the camera and snapped the picture just the canine turned slightly my way. What you can't really see in the picture is that the dog is in a "doggie car seat" and is belted in for safety. Looks like he (she?) is one very loved mutt!!

and the T-Shirt Award Winner Is...

While wandering around the USU football stadium a few weeks ago I saw this t-shirt and couldn't resist snapping a picture of it. It made me giggle as I envisioned some kidnappers trying to scoop up this old guy and chuck him into the back of a truck. Somehow I don't think being kidnapped should be on his list of ligitimate fears.
T-shirts are incredible things. I've heard it said that you can get people to do almost anything for a free t-shirt. I know I've participated in lots of activities just to get a t-shirt. At one time I had 12 corporate games shirts in my closet from several years worth of participating in activities from bowling to softball to indoor computer golf. Oh, once I even participated in what I consider to be the WORST corporate games activity of all. No, its not the karaoke contest(which is pretty bad) but the company tug-of-war. Ugh, I HATE that activity. I think I was asked to participate in it because I would be a good anchor. Or in other words, I could legitimatly wear a t-shirt that said, "I'm not fat, I'm just hard to kidnap." Enough said about that.
The favorite t-shirt that I currently own in one that is no longer appropriate to wear outside the walls of my own home. It is the 2002 Olympic shirt I got at the Medals Plaza---long-sleeved and North Carolina blue. Unfortunately, it has been so well loved that it is all stretched out and holey due to the multiple washings it has had to endure over the past 5 years. I heard someone say one time that a t-shirt should never have dates on it; ie. "2002 Winter Olympic Games." On the contrary, I think a t-shirt is a wearable travel log so that others can see where you've been and what you're interested in. For example, my newest t-shirt is from the 2008 "Pirate Run or Walk the Plank" fundraiser, and my oldest t-shirt is from 1997 Chicago Cubs baseball season with a caricature of Harry Caray on the back singing "I'm a Cub Fan and a Bud Man." All of my t-shirts have special sentimental value. In fact, when I sort through my clothes to make a DI run I have to put the t-shirts in a pile and wait for a few months to see if I really am ready to part with them.
And that's how I feel about t-shirts.

Recreational Volleyball

In 1977 I played on the Cyprus High School volleyball team. We took our region title, then went on to the State Finals held that year at BYU. Unfortunately, we lost the state title to a far less talented team from Box Elder High School. (Not that I'm still bitter about it, but...)
My friend Katie is playing on a recreational league for 5th and 6th graders in Murray. They were looking for a coach and I have no life...so, what could I do? I'm excited to play with the kids. We had our first games already and we won our first 2 matches without losing game. The girls were so excited. We'll see how the rest of the season goes, but for now you can just call me "Coach."