Today... As Chris would would said, It was like Herding Cats...

Today was an interesting day.
Chris' oldest son David was with me, and we went to see Chris' younger son Max play basketball in a local Church league.

Max is now eight years old, and is an aggressive (in a good way) and competetive little guy.

His little sister Bella, now 6 1/2 is a cheerleader for Max's team, so it was like a double header.

At one time, there two short basket ball courts with two opposing teams competing on each. Additionally the stands were full on both sides, and the cheerleaders were cheering.

Max and Belle actually got the Church after David and I had arrived, and she informed her mother that Grandpa is here, there is his car.   She knows my Hemi Orange Challenger and often to refers to me as Grandpa with the car.

Well, when the courts were filled with kids with absolutely no basketball skills, and the crowds were cheering, and little brothers and little sisters running amuck around the court and in the stands...

I loved Max's energy and competiveness, he actually scored twice. And Bella was terrific as she waved the Pom Poms and jumped and cheered....

But the whole experience, which Chris would have loved to see, because he loved his kids so much, would have quickly been labled by him, as Herding Cats...... a term he often used when the kids being ........kids.

David and I are spending the evening playing around wth the same computers, that Chris and I played around with back in the late 70s, a old S100 computer called an IMSAI, with a Lear Seigler ADM - 3A connected to it.   And just like when Chris was young, and I was younger, it is not at all without adventure...

I just wanted to share that picture with you, and my son would have used to characterize the situation...and I always enjoyed his colorful descriptions of situations...maybe because he got a lot of that from me.

It is new year.. and who knows what it holds?

But I thank God for life, and for time with my grandchildren. And today was a particularly rich experience.

Good Bless, and Race Safely

David