Seeing Double

You're not seeing double but the kids are definitely beside themselves.  Titus' first crazy cart stopped working.  Razor tried to trouble shoot over the phone and sent some replacement parts but nothing got it working again.  They then suggested taking it to a repair shop but the local shop was closed, so they decided to just send us a new cart.  Pretty awesome customer service if you ask me.  They didn't want the old cart back, so we let Titus loose on it to see if he could fix it.  He took it all apart and found out it was a wire from the motor that was pinched and severed.  He removed the motor brought the part and wire to lance to solder back together, re-engineered the wire location so it didn't get severed again and poof we now have two working crazy carts.  This is definitely twice the fun!

Thankfully, the crazy carts (or anything else) wasn't in the court when this 95 ft tree (kids measured it) suddenly fell into the court.  Chris and I were just coming home from our walk when it fell in front of us.   It is truly miraculous it didn't hurt anything but a mailbox, even the FedEx truck was a few feet from making the turn in the cul-du-sac and could have been under the tree.  Needless to say this threw off our school groove for a bit that day, especially when the tree removal service came.  I mean who doesn't want to touch the top of a really tall tree?

With the focus thrown off we went ahead and went to our favorite baseball shop (where Lance gets all his mitts) and found him a new catcher mitt.  Rob (who runs the place) saw us coming and put off lunch to help us out.  He's used to me after all these years and before I could ask, he said "Will this price work?".  He knows I never pay full price, its fun to dicker.  Now he sort-of has two broken mitts, one old and truly broken and one new and not broken in yet.  However, he's stronger than he was when he got the last one six years ago so the break-in process should go quicker.

 

Lance, Titus and his friend Carson became real "Rail Fans" today.  I dropped them off near the local CSX depot and they went to work.  The boys were thrilled to see three separate trains work the area that day.  The crews working the trains enjoyed seeing the excited boys as well.  This gentlemen even stopped for a short talk and wished them a good day.  They even brought home some old rail spikes as souvenirs.