Fun Day in Willcox
October 5, 2008
Yesterday being Saturday meant another day on the road for a football game. Sean’s game yesterday was in Willcox, AZ. Willcox is about 75 minutes away, so we planned make it most of a day trip to Willcox, which is another small rural town in SE Arizona and beloved home of deceased cowboy Rex Allen.
Willcox is also the location of Apple Annie’s orchard and vegetable farm. During football season, we usually make a trek out to Apple Annies after the football game and pick our own pumpkins for Halloween. We usually walk the farm too and pick our vegetables. If time permits, we also head over to their orchard and pick our own apples and pears. It makes for a fun day.
This year, however, the game coincided with Rex Allen Days festivities in Willcox, so our game was scheduled to be played at 3:00 pm. This kind of messed with our plans. So instead, we just made plans to go to the orchard, get some fruit and have some lunch. Apple Annie’s has a little shack they call the Burger Barn where the cook some nice burgers over apple wood. They are delicious. Plus, you get a slice of fresh home made pie and ice cream.
We got some apples (golden delicious, granny smith and fiji) and some pears (bartlett and asian). The burgers were delicious and the Apple Crumb Pie was heavenly. The weather was nearly perfect as the temperatures were only in the 70′s and the sun was hidden behind clouds – are rare treat this time of the year in Arizona.
As to the football, game it was a match up of win less teams in the league. Unfortunately, the result was the same as we lost 34 – 0. The game was never close. Sean played his best game of the year. He had many good tackles and forced the Willcox team to run the ball the other direction. On offense, he had the other team’s biggest kid – yes, outsized by at least 30 lbs – line up against him. Sean did a great job of keeping him out of the plays. The other kid was involved in maybe two tackles all day.
I think we have three games remaining this season. I don’t think we will win a game, but none the less will still have fun.
Halloween and NutriSystem Update
October 30, 2006
Our little rural community of Sonoita celebrated Halloween this weekend. Living in the country, there is no real way for the kids to trick or treat. They might walk two miles and only visit 4 houses.� Instead, the community gets together at the county fairgrounds and holds a Halloween carnival.
The chamber of commerce sponsors the event. They have booths set up for the kids to visit to simulate trick or treating. Local residents bring candy to hand out to the kids also. In addition, they supply hot dogs and snacks for anyone who attends.
The local volunteer fire department set up a haunted house for the kids to go through. It was a big hit! :devil: There was also a cake walk which is a lot like musical chairs except you walk around and have to end up on a pumpkin tile on the floor. A number is randomly drawn and the person is removed from the game. The last person in the game gets a cake. Sean was able to win once. His cake was actually six cupcakes. Savannah never did win despite trying many, many times. She had lots of fun trying. There was also a sack race. Sean did very well in the sack race. The only person who could beat him was a girl that was just out of this world. She is the same age as Sean and I think he kinda likes her which was why he was trying so hard. Or was he letting her win? :wub:
The whole family, except for Mr Papa, was dressed in a costume. Savannah went as a Geisha girl. Sean had a unique costume as he was dressed up as a football player riding on the back of Frankenstein. Suzanne’s was a bit wimply, but at least she dressed up. She was a flamenco dancer. Nobody in the family won any of the costume contests.
The festivities lasted for us for about 2.5 hours though it was still going when we left. A lot of the town attended and fun was had by all.
On the NutriSystem front, I finally weighed myself after my business trip to Germany. I wasn’t expecting good news and I didn’t get any.� Actually, it might have been better than I was expecting. On the trip, and the bit of a cheat week after, I gained five pounds. That means I am still down 13 pounds. I so enjoyed the German Beer while on the trip, that I picked up some more for the past weekend. I am back at this week and suspect I will be able to lose those five pounds this week to get back to where I was at.
My aggressive goal is to be down 25 lb by the time of the cruise at Thanksgiving and then to hold that weight for the cruise. That should be doable as I have done it before.
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