Are You Ready for Some Football?

Thursday - August 19, 2010 vs. Fredericksburg
Landon's first "real" scrimmage (against an opponent) as a high school freshman!

Landon is #45.

'Tis the Season

Football Season, that is.









Landon started 2-a-days this week and had a squad scrimmage on Friday.












 

He played offense and defense, and we heard the coaches yelling at the other players to get more aggressive because "Spruiell is in on every play!"





His first "real" scrimmage is Saturday, August 14th at Hays.

 We tested the urban legend of painting a car with less than $50 of equipment using Rustoleum paint and foam rollers on a fender of Justin's old 1950 Dodge Cornet.

The original idea for this came from a message board post here: moparts: paint job on a budget!? 

We also found some good information at the Instructables website

and an entire forum dedicated to this method - Rolled On.

We mixed Sail Blue and White to get a light blue shade.       

 Next, we sanded the bondo and rusty parts of the fender.

Then, we rolled on the first two coats of paint thinned with mineral spirits.

Here is the final coat before we did the last wetsanding and waxing.  It looks pretty good!

Wild Blue Yonder

Justin Saves!

Justin had a couple of good saves Thursday night during his rec-league soccer game.

Silver and Gold

We're going to the Regional Track Meet!



Landon got a gold medal for his 1st place finish (29 secs) in the 200m at the Lockhart USATF Qualifier track meet on Saturday (June 19, 2010).


He also got a silver medal for the 400m at this meet (time was 1:10).

Update for 2010

Been working on the house a bit since the new year began (the-cowshed.blogspot.com). 

Landon is running track at the Middle School. 

Randy is still working at the bakery and taking classes at night.

Corky and Marci are still stationed in Florida.  He got Technician of the Month last month and got to eat lunch with a 4-star general!

Justin is working and considering some options to finish school this summer.

Jesse is running free poker games downtown on Wednesdays and taking a few online classes.  

Shelli is trying to keep her head above water at school.