Fireworks Finale

Tonight wrapped up Valley Center's Fall Festival for 2010. A magic show, a concert by Of The Rescue, good food, seeing old friends and making new ones. The weather was great and the temperature was cool. Cool enough for wearing jackets. I snapped this photo of the fireworks finale. If you look at it right, it looks like a glowing dandelion, don't you think?

Fall Festival

One of the greatest nights of our year! Every year, we look forward to this day. It's so much fun. The morning parade, the delicious food, the carnival, it's all great! But it's the community of people we enjoy more than anything. Still, the food is pretty darn good!

Doin' the Hustle!

Today was a fantastically busy day! It started off with the 1st Annual Hornet Hustle at the Kansas Coliseum. This was a fundraiser for my daughter's school in an effort to raise enough money that we can stop having to sell wrapping paper, cookies, candy, etc. They seemed to have a great turnout with over 300 participants so I hope it did the trick. Stephanie G. did a great job pulling it together with the help of so many others. My brother drove 2 hours to join our family for the event which was great. He's a cross country coach so he gave us some really good advice being this was our first run ever. We also were lucky enough to get to hang out with the Running Lawyer, and we also saw Oz Runner from just up the street. Good people all around us! Everyone did a great job, and I'm proud of the entire group. We're already looking forward to next year's run where we'll all be in better shape and run farther than this year.

After the Hornet Hustle, we hustled out to the farmer's market to buy some sweet corn for my son's birthday next week, but sadly, the season is over and there was none to be found. But we didn't walk away empty handed. Absolutely not! We left with a large jar of honey, a jar of apple butter, a jar of Elderberry jelly, and a jar of Pepsi jelly made with real Pepsi (bought some Diet Pepsi jelly for Mom & Dad). They had Mountain Dew jelly, Code Red jelly, and other flavors that we'll try another time. Before we left, my daughter and I were watching a magician and he gave her the honor of pulling out a LARGE nail he carefully hammered into it. That's something she won't forget, and he let her keep the nail, but only after I insisted he wipe it down first. We grabbed a quick lunch and hustled home to take an afternoon rest.

We wrapped up the day by hustling over to Applebee's then hustled to McLean Park for a free movie in the park. They were showing "The Princess and the Frog". The weather was great and you can't beat free, especially when they throw in free popcorn, free lemonade, free sno-cones, and free popsicles. What a day! One I'd hustle to do all over again.

Scrimmage Tape

Football season has started! Tonight was the scrimmage for the middle school football team. I ran tape on the game as usual and got it ready for coaches to review over the weekend. Here's to a great season!

Through the viewfinder

Another night of recording 7th grade boys basketball. I'm trying to mix it up on the POV with this shot. Tonight was vs. Newton. We lost, but not as bad as last time. I guess we've improved. Hopefully, this 7:15 project will improve my photography, too.

Hornets defeat the Eagles

A cold January night (13º!) and I'm recording video of the 7th grade Valley Center B team game at Maize. The gym was small and cramped so I had to position myself on the corner of the court. Not a great perspective for the coaches to analyze the video. The B team won by 1 point.