Gratuitous Domestic Posting - Girls of Summer Division

The eldest Llama-ette has been bitten recently by an urge to learn to play softball. (One of the tell-tale signs is that she's wearing her Nats hat a lot these days.) To this end, she's asked me if I'd teach her to throw, catch and hit. And she wants to watch ballgames with me when the season starts (19 days!).

It so happens that Sunday is the gel's ninth birthday. Present from Dad? Why a new glove, ball and bat, of course. I've been daydreaming recently of lazy summer evenings playing catch in the backyard, with occassional trips through the woods to the large field in our neighborhood for batting practice, the younger gels being dragooned to shag hits for me.

How cool is that?