Well it’s been a while, but here we go. Isaiah and Josiah are playing baseball this year. Isaiah’s stats are a little easier to calculate since they actually use most of the real baseball rules in his league. The T-ball league Josiah is in doesn’t really make a lot of sense. So far this season Isaiah is 10 for 12 with 6 singles (w/4RBI) 2 doubles (w/2RBI), a triple (w/3RBI), a home run (w/4RBI) slam – total of 13 RBI), 8 runs scored and 2 SO. BA is .833, SP is 1.417. He is doing well at the plate. If he gets a more solid stance, grip, and swing he could be devastating. His fielding (as can be expected) needs a lot of work as it is not instinctual enough for him to know what to do with the ball once he actually gets it.
The wildlife her is great. We saw a couple of cow moose on the drive back from baseball eating along side the road recently and I did see a couple of young black bears playing by Ship Creek on base. I have not seen any bears since but did see my second Fox (while not on Shemya).
The sun has been setting just before midnight recently and on my drive in to work at 0315 a few days ago I could tell that even though it was dark the sky was not really as dark as it got in the winter. By mid June I guess the light nevcer really goes away. Most people are asleep by the time the darkness finally comes and awake long after the sun rises (it seems to rise about 0430). The long daylight periods are not hard to get used to though. The only problem recently has been getting the kids in bed before 2200. Well, I have to go. I’ll talk to you all again soon I hope. My job has been keeping me extremely busy. I am done taking Master’s courses until September though. I am 33% complete with the program and with my promotion board meeting 14 months earlier than anticipated I see no more reason to rush. Just trying to avoid falling further behind in work related activities has me working 50-60 hours per week. I managed to squeeze about 55 hours into what was supposed to be a 4 day week. I had to work on my day off and Elisabeth was fairly upset (with good reason). I guess I view my days off sort of like a lunch break (which I rarely get anyway). The mission comes first and my time off comes when possible. If the DoD got more funding we probably wouldn’t be in such bad shape, but I wouldn’t want a tax increase just to work fewer hours. OK, my kids are quiet, I better go check on things.