Luke’s Notebook

I did a little bit of everything today. In the morning, I went out to our ball field in order to operate a video camera for yet another silent movie. What have Mark and I started?! This is the third silent movie in two weeks. A few days after The Unlikely Chums, Dad directed a flick that starred Uncle Dave, Seth, Jacob, Nathan and Caleb. That movie is still in post-production; it’s not in theaters yet.

The latest movie is centered around a baseball game. I won’t divulge too much yet, but it involves some questionable umpiring, a sneaky pitcher, and an apple and a pumpkin. I think it will turn out pretty well. I’m really excited to start to put it together and see what it becomes.

In the afternoon, I drove over to my Uncle Joe’s house in order to help him move a couple of fallen trees. The work mainly consisted of loading limbs and logs into a trailer and drive the four-wheeler over to a fire pile, where I’d unload them. It took a little over an hour, but we got the job done. Uncle Joe and Aunt Diane have five kids, but the oldest is a 10-year-old (I think) girl. So I was really happy to just be able to help out.

After that, I drove to Sam’s Club in Fairview Heights, where I placed an order for the Christmas cards that we’re getting printed up. Amazingly, they’re supposed to be ready for pick-up tomorrow evening! What speedy service.

This evening, we had an 8:30 softball game. It was quite cold. Thankfully, I was smart enough to bring a sweatshirt, and wearing that made it pretty comfortable being out there. We ended up winning the game, by the way, by a score of 22-20. Jude and Paul each had three home runs. Pretty great playing! I didn’t hit any, but I batted 3-5 with a triple.

I also played three innings at second base and four at third base. Since this game was meaningless as far as the standings went (we already had first place sewn up), we decided to shuffle around the positions a little bit. I actually played pretty well at both positions, which was kind of encouraging. The last time I played third base in the game, I made two big throwing errors which kind of led to us losing the game. So it was nice that such wasn’t the case tonight.

Tomorrow night at 6:30, we have our final softball game(s) as we’re playing the playoffs! If we win at 6:30, we’ll play in the championship at 8:30. After tomorrow, there is no more softball until April, which is when the season usually starts. So we’ll see how we do in our final game(s)!