My Homer Moment of Today

After making a sandwich for lunch today, I decide to go outside and eat it in the car and do a little reading. Feeling more like catching a quick nap after the sandwich and chips I crawl into the backseat and start to doze off. I am suddenly awakened a few moments later by a firetruck pulling into our parking lot. I raise my head to look out the windows and all of our employees are milling around outside. Apparently we had a fire on one of our pieces of equipment. Some metallic dust ignited on a "downdraft table" and flames ensued quickly, but were confined to that one piece of equipment. It's a difficult fire to put out because a majority of the dust came from aluminum and if you put water on it, it is like throwing on gasoline. A special retardent was used. However thick smoke was generated and we were outside for about two and a half hours.

You can see our Pathfinder in the right side of the photo with windows down to let air in so I can breath during the nap.

Four firetrucks, an EMS unit, several sheriffs, and possibly a hazardous material truck arrived for our fire. However only the 24 local news station so no links yet.

Number 5 on the scorecard, #1 in your heart

Samantha is now into girls fast pitch softball. She is shown here playing second base. Last night she was positioned at short stop.

Sam led off the home half of the first inning hitting a 3-1 pitch, lining a clean single over the second baseman into right center. The next batter hit the ball about 6 feet up the third base line, but the catcher threw the ball into the outfield behind first base - Sam scored all the way from first.

On defense in the second inning, Samantha has been moved to shortstop, a runner tried to steal second. The catcher throws down, Sam takes the throw, catches the ball, and tags the runner out. Well, the runner kind of runs into the tag, but Sam gets her out. A nice play.

At her last at bat Samantha strikes out swinging.

She seems to be having a great time. So far she's taken a ground ball in the kisser, shins, and various other body parts and is still unafraid. She's even talked to me about learning to pitch.