Happy Birthday to us

It was two years ago that the Life in Corydon website went public. We thought that the county fair would be a good week's worth of pictures to get us going. So we're still going two years later. If anyone actually reads this and if you have any suggestions, let me know. I'd like to start thinking about a military section devoted to the men and women who're off in a strange land serving our country. In the meantime, we'll keep doing what we're doing.

"The conscious part of me interferes as little as possible."
--Roger Waters, Pink Floyd

Today I'm finally posting the 8U softball pictures from last weekend. They're worth waiting for. Zachary did a great job. I feel a bit bad that it's taken so long, but we had a few things pile up this week and we prefer to space them out a bit so there's something new as often as possible.

So while we were at the Vanguard's band camp week-ending performance last night, those pictures probably won't be posted until Monday or Tuesday. Then it's almost county fair week. Then school starts. Amazing how fast that happens.


"I have found my subjects within sixty yards of my door."

--Alfred Steiglitz

The big baseball weekend

We'll start with softball (it makes sense, honest.) Corydon's 8U softball girls won only one of three games at the state tournament in Salem and bowed out Saturday, but we'll post some pictures of their play in a day or so. In the spirit of full disclosure, I should note that my granddaughter Emily was one of the Corydon 8U All-Stars. I didn't get to go watch since I was at home trying to sit very still after medical stuff the day before, but Emily's brother Zachary went to take pictures for us.

Meanwhile, here in Corydon, the 13U Corydon All-Stars whipped North Harrison, 25-15 for the district championship. More like a football score, as one coach noted, a TD and a field goal difference. We don't have pictures of this past weekend's 13U games because I was sitting still and Zachary was busy with the 8U softball and also the 11U state championships. The 13Us play in the state championship here this weekend, though. We'll cover that tournament.

But we do have pictures of the 11U state tourney, where Corydon's team unexpectedly made it to the final game and captured runner-up honors for themselves. Their best effort was probably the championship game of the losers' bracket, when they beat N.Harrison 9-6. We're posting pictures of that game today. The Corydon boys did not finish first or second in the district tourney, but got to be in this weekend's tournament as the host team. Floyds Knobs won the district and North Harrison was runner-up. After Sunday's win over N.Harrison, Corydon lost the state championship, 14-5, to Floyds Knobs. Corydon players and coaches seemed to be disappointed, but state runner-up is an achievement to be proud of, particularly when you do better than expected.

The blog, resumed

The last blog entry hinted that we might give up doing the blog. After all, the most important communication at Life in Corydon is the pictures, and I've tried to keep words to a minimum. But there is usually more to be said than can fit into the little word boxes on the front page, or in the headlines and captions. So beginning now, we'll try to keep the blog updated often enough to make it worth your while to check it regularly. That implies that there will be anything worth reading, of course, but you can decide about that.

I'm going into the hospital Friday to zap a pesky kidney stone, so updates on the website may be a little slow coming for a few days, but Zachary and Meredith will be out this weekend while I'm taking it easy.

Stay tuned.

--bryan


"Gramma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you find; that way the good spreads out no telling where it will go.

Which is right."

-Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree