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A person's mood can often fluctuate throughout the day, sometimes without any awareness at all for what emotional triggers could have potentially set your mood into a tailspin. The Finding Optimism app is designed to uncover such moments and help users to track their mental health throughout the day.
The Finding Optimism app is a great intuitive tool to use to help you understand what might trigger a mood swing or what sorts of environments, people or settings set you off. The app is organized into four tabs that help you rate your daily habits. The first is called core data and it asks about your mood and habits with questions about your sleeping and wellbeing. The second is Stay Well Strategies looking into ways the user maintains a healthy lifestyle. The third and fourth tabs are called Triggers and Symptoms. Each tab is easy to use and relies on simple yes/no questions and scoring that is then tracked into graphs for you to see.
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When opportunity knocks...
This month we had a guest speaker named Doug Addison. When Doug spoke here last, it was 11/11. In the middle of his meeting last November, he stopped midstream because he and Director Cal Pierce both recognized that the Angel of Opportunity had entered into our meeting. Doug then led us all to receive "opportunity" from this Angel.
In his sharing this time about what has transpired since November, he really focused on the "opportunity" that has come in many ways to his ministry and his life. He has great testimony to the favor he is experiencing. When he left here last November he activated this in his life by simply stating what he wanted. When someone would ask him a question like "What do you need?", he would reply "$50,000 to start to begin the reality show that the Lord has revealed to me." In the last 3 months he has received $30,000 of it. He has many other examples of doors swinging wide open, things that don't happen naturally.
Speaking out transparently really struck me as an important key that we all can collect on. We can be an active player in accessing favor. So to start we can all learn to correct our speech to speak that which we desire and not anything that tears down.
1 Corinthians 10:23 NAS
All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.
To activate this personally and corporately, Before the Partners department prayed for our Partners this week, each one of us closed our eyes and spoke out declarations about ourselves truths that we know from God. We spoke decrees over our families. We spoke out the prophetic words we have been given. We spoke out our desires. We spoke out our dreams. We spoke out over the Body. We just kept taking turns speaking things out. When someone's declaration was so good we borrowed it for ourselves, too! This was so fulfilling and spirit rich! By the time we went to pray for Partners, we were so full and had so much to pour into the prayer requests that we want to do this often. I encourage each of you to take the time to enjoy and release all the good that God has stored up inside you and declare it out of your mouth. I believe God is "all in" to fulfill the good work He has started in you. He just needs your agreement!
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Classroom Resources
Bugs and Insects
Writing Prompt
A bug's life can be really interesting if you take a closer look at one. Have students go outside and find a bug. Have them observe its features, surroundings, and fellow friends. Then have students write a story about where the bug is coming from and where it's going.
Grades Pre-K–2: Science
Butterfly and Chrysalis
With this activity, you can give your students a better understanding of what happens when a butterfly emerges from its cocoon.
- Where Do Butterflies Come From?
- http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html
Grades Pre-K–2: Art
Color On!
Let students create bug works of art by coloring pictures online.
- Bugalizer Studio
- http://www.orkin.com/learning_center/kids_and_teachers_games.aspx
Grades Pre-K–8: Science
Have students watch a butterfly, a cicada, water bugs, and a dragonfly evolve into new forms.
- Animal Transformations
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/satoyama/transform.html
Grades K–1: Art
Stained Glass Butterflies
Using tissue paper, your students can create butterflies that look as if they were made of stained glass.
- Beautiful Butterflies
- http://www.eduplace.com/activity/butterfly.html
Grades K–3: Art
Create an Insect
Insects have been considered some of Mother Nature's finest works of art. Students will enjoy using common materials and a little imagination to create stunning insect ornaments and artwork.
- Insect Art and Ornaments
- http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/allyr/yf805.htm
Grades K–3
Ants on Logs
Have your students make some bug-inspired dishes.
- Bugfood I: Insect-themed Food
- http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/bugfood/bugfood1.htm
Grades K–8: Science
3-D Bugs
Have students take a closer look at insects such as the praying mantis, ant, termite, mosquito, black widow spider, and many more.
- Virtual Insects and a Spider
- http://www.ento.vt.edu/~sharov/3d/virtual.html
Grades K–8: Science/Language Arts
Pretty As a Picture
Students can send their friends and relatives a beautiful butterfly e-card.
- Surfnetkids Butterfly Postcard
- http://www.surfnetkids.com/postcards/butterfly-pc.htm
Grades 1–2: Science
Activity Bug Book
This activity book from Orkin has games, puzzles, lessons, and even a section for students to create their own bug!
- Orkin Activity Book
- http://www.orkin.com/media/downloads/Orkin%20Activity%20Book.pdf
Grades 1–8: Language Arts
Word Scrambles
Can your students unscramble these creepy crawly words?
- Creepy Crawly Word Scramble (grades 1–2) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_easy_scr.pdf
- Creepy Crawly Word Scramble Answer Key (grades 1–2) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_easy_scr_key.pdf
- Buggy Word Scramble (grades 3–5) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_med_scr.pdf
- Buggy Word Scramble Answer Key (grades 3–5) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_med_scr_key.pdf
- Bugs and Insects Word Scramble (grades 6–8) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_hard_scr.pdf
- Bugs and Insects Word Scramble Answer Key(grades 6–8) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_hard_scr_key.pdf
Grades 1–8: Science
Test students' knowledge about bugs and insects.
- Creepy Crawlies (grades 1–2) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_1-2_quiz.pdf
- Creepy Crawlies Answer Key (grades 1–2) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_1-2_quiz_key.pdf
- Bug Out! (grades 3–5) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_3-5_quiz.pdf
- Bug Out! Answer Key (grades 3–5) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_3-5_quiz_key.pdf
- Insect Lives (grades 6–8) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_6-8_quiz.pdf
- Insect Lives Answer Key (grades 6–8) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_6-8_quiz_key.pdf
Grades 2–8: Science
Name That Bug
Students can see how well they know their insects by trying to identify bugs with just four clues.
- Name That Bug
- http://www.orkin.com/learning_center/kids_and_teachers_games.aspx
Grades 2–8: Language Arts
Word Finds
Have students find words related to bugs and insects hidden in a puzzle.
- Bugs and Insects (grades 2–3) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_easy_wf.pdf
- Bugs and Insects Answer Key (grades 2–3) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_easy_wf_key.pdf
- Bugs and Insects (grades 4–5) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_med_wf.pdf
- Bugs and Insects Answer Key (grades 4–5) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_med_wf_key.pdf
- Bugs and Insects (grades 6–8) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_hard_wf.pdf
- Bugs and Insects Answer Key (grades 6–8) (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_hard_wf_key.pdf
Grades 3–4: Language Arts
Leapin' Ladybugs!
Have students create advertisements for ladybugs.
- Leapin' Ladybugs!
- http://www.eduplace.com/activity/leapin_ladybugs.html
Grades 3–5: Science/Language Arts
Bugs-Eye View
What would it be like to have six legs and to scuttle? Have each of your students research a bug or an insect and then write a letter from the insect to humankind.
- Bugs-Eye View
- http://www.eduplace.com/activity/bugseye.html
Grades 3–5: Science
Collectors Cards
Have your students make trading cards about bugs.
- Exchangeable Insects
- http://www.eduplace.com/activity/bug_tradecard.html
Grades 3–5: Science
Bug Match
Do you know that some bugs are very beneficial to us? Have students find out which bugs help us and what they do for us.
- Insects...What Good Are They Anyway?
- http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/education/kids/insects_test.aspx
Grades 3–6: Science
Life As a Bug
What do roaches think about as they scuttle around? Do they have a plan? Kids can find out by being the roach in this online game.
- Be the Roach
- http://www.sun-sentinel.com/broadband/theedge/sfl-edge-a-roachgame,0,6048115.flash
Grades 3–8: Science
No Place Like Home
Help your students make a livable home for a pet insect by creating a class aquarium terrarium.
- Build an Aquarium Terrarium
- http://fun.familyeducation.com/ecological-habitats/plants/35165.html
Grades 4–6: Science
Butterfly Jigsaw
Your students can put together this butterfly jigsaw picture online.
- Monarch Butterfly Jigsaw Puzzle
- http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/butterfly-js.htm
Grades 4–8: Science
Match Up
See if your students know the scientific names for these common bugs and insects.
- Insect Matchup (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_match.pdf
- Insect Matchup Answer Key (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_match_key.pdf
Grades 4–8: Science
What's the Buzz?
Your students can click on this animated picture of a fly to learn all about how it functions.
- Fly Physics
- http://www.sun-sentinel.com/broadband/theedge/sfl-edge-t-flyphysics,0,996193.flash
Grades 5–6: Science
Slug Fun
Have students rearrange pieces of a puzzle to reveal a picture of a slimy slug.
- Silly Slug Scramble
- http://www.redscarf.com/slime/slugfun.shtml
Grades 5–8: Science/Language Arts
The Buzz-Puzz
Have students test their knowledge of bugs and insects.
- Bugs and Insects (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_xword.pdf
- Bugs and Insects Answer Key (PDF file)
- http://www.eduplace.com/monthlytheme/october/pdf/bugs_xword_key.pdf
Grades 5–8: Science
The Cricket and the Butterfly
Have students make cricket and butterfly masks and use them in a short play about insects.
- Make an Insect Mask!
- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/maskindex.html
Grades 5–8: Science
Ladybug Jumble
Challenge your students to unscramble this picture of ladybugs.
- NATURE: Alien Empire - Insect Scramble
- http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/voyagers.html


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Judith Duffy's Cabled Edging
Talk about something I wish I had invented, but didn't! I LOVE this edging/Bind Off/trim and have used it for all kinds of things over the years. With Judith Duffy's kind permission, it appeared in Hand-Manipulated Stitches for Machine Knitters (page 183) and there was even a hand-knit version of it in Knitters' Magazine to accompany the machine knit pattern I did for the gold sweater that appeared in the blog post of March 7, 2016 – and again here (below).
I first saw this edging when I was a contributing editor for Threads Magazine (in the earliest years of the magazine) and they were doing a feature article on fiber artist Judith Duffy's work. They asked me to choose one of her textures to reproduce for the article and I spent some time figuring out machine knit directions for the cabled edging. Do you remember the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing garment that graced a back cover in those early years? It was a stunning piece by Duffy and unlike anything I have seen before or since, hand or machine knitted.
The gold sweater at left is a twisted stitch and latched up tuck stitch pattern (see previous blog 3/7/16), but take a close look at the edge of the ribbing. I started all the garment pieces on waste yarn and went back later to work the ribs. Instead of a conventional rib bind off, I worked the Duffy Cabled Edging to trim and bind off the ribs all at once.
Most of all, I think I have used it to bind off neckline stitches when shaping a neckline with short rows, preserving live stitches. On a standard gauge machine it produces a lovely, delicate neckline finish.
You can also use this edging to join two garment or afghan sections together by rehanging them on the machine with the wrong sides facing each other and then working the edging. As with the I-cord join (blog 4/8/16), make sure you always hang the pieces the same way as there is a right and wrong side to the way the edging joins the base fabric.
The method is quite simple. Hang the work on the machine with the right side (whatever that is) facing you – live stitches or selvage edges (whole stitches are best). All of the needles except the first 3 on the carriage side are in holding position and the carriage must be set to hold needles in HP. Knit 12 rows over the 3 working needles and then remove those stitches on a 3-prong tool and pass the tool under the adjacent 3 needles and re-hang the stitches on the 4th, 5th and 6th needles from the edge.Place the empty needles in NWP. Repeat till you either reach a corner or the end. If you want to turn a corner, add two more rows to the last two groups on each side to help make the corner so that it doesn't flatten out. You'll also find that you can't easily hang the next side of an afghan until you get right to the corner. At that point, you might want to remove those last few stitches and re-hang them on the far right end of the bed to give you lots of needles to re-hang the next side.
I almost always work with 3 stitches and knit 12 rows for each spiral, but you can certainly work with more stitches if you have a tool to handle them. Twelve rows almost always works out right, but you might find that 10 or 14 are better so work the edging on your gauge swatch to find out before you begin. You might also find that you want to adjust your stitch size a bit smaller or larger – sampling always pays off.
As I said in the tutorial, the float that passes underneath the first 3 needles always gets hidden inside the spiral, but you can certainly opt to knit those needles back and eliminate the float if – for some unforeseen reason – it shows. Also, by way of variation, I have seen students work this trim in two colors, which is very cool. In that case, it might be best to knit back the float of at least one of the colors.
When you reach the end, you want the trim to end quickly and neatly. What I have always done is to knit half as many rows on the second to last group and then immediately reduce those 3 stitches to a single stitch. Move that single stitch to the last needle at left, knit 1 row over the last 3 needles and then reduce those stitches to a single stitch and pull the yarn tail through to secure.
I think there are all kinds of creative possibilities for this edging – I love the cabled effect and the fact that it also binds off stitches. Lately I have been playing with a cabled cord effect by e-wrapping, knitting 1 row over all needles and then working the JDCE. I think it still needs a little work and then I will share it with you! What other ways can you think to use this trim?
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Susan, I can't tell you how many times I've used this edging in the 22 (!) years since you taught it to us at The Yarn Garden in Hawaii! I have so many fond memories of that time! I think I even completed one neckline edging using THREE colors, but I only tried that once—too much cussing involved! I'm so glad to be following your blog, and I am still enjoying machine knitting after all these years!
Many thanks for sharing this. I'm ready to try it now!!
Love the edging! Will certainly try it. Now, what is JDCE?
A favorite of mine also.
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my comment didn't show up. Grrrr… well I'm not
writing all that over again. Anyways, just wanted to say superb blog!


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June 2005
time to make some moves?
We're still a ways a way from the July 31st trade deadline but I'm starting to think the time might be right for the Pirates to begin making moves now.
The Bucs were given a second chance to make amends with their fans when MLB named Pittsburgh the host city for the 2006 All Star Game. The Pirates blew it the first time when they opened up PNC Park and went on to lose 100 games. The five-year plan was a flop and the team has been trying to recover ever since.
The organization appears to be in a "must-win" mode. The string of consecutive losing seasons has reached an almost unthinkable 12 straight years. The club has to move forward with the idea that victories will outnumber losses by 2006. There can be no excuses.
In order for the Pirates to reach that goal, it seems to me, they must make some difficult decisions.
On his Sunday radio show on June 25th, Dave Littlefield presented us with "locks" at only a few positions for 2006.
Shortstop Jack Wilson and second baseman Jose Castillo are set as the double play combination. Littlefield said the club is happy with the job Humberto Cota has done behind the plate. Jason Bay is certainly the leftfielder for the foreseeable future. Firstbaseman Darlye Ward's contract is up after this season; as is Matt Lawton's.
Third baseman Ty Wigginton has not produced like the team had hoped and in center field the club has used both Tike Redman and Rob Mackowiak.
The rotation for 2006 will start with Oliver Perez and the remaining four will probably be chosen from among Kip Wells, Josh Fogg, Dave Williams, Ian Snell, Zach Duke, Sean Burnett and John Van Benschoten.
I have left out Mark Redman because there doesn't seem to be a reasonable scenario which would bring him back for 2006. The monkey wrench is the mutual option between Redman and the Pirates. Both parties would have to agree on the team picking up the some $4.5 million dollars for 2006. However, if Redman continues to pitch the way he did for most of his first 15 starts, his agent knows full well that a lefthander with great numbers could land twice as much on the open market than that which is called for in the option year of his contract.
On the flip-side, if Redman does not pitch well and has more games like his first two starts against the Cardinals, the Pirates aren't going to be willing to pay that same sum for another season. It appears as though the best option for the Pirates would be to deal the lefthander to a contending team before the deadline and receive some value in return for Redman. If that were to occur, a spot in the rotation would open up for lefthander Zach Duke who leads the AAA level in wins this season for the Pirates International League affiliate, the Indianapolis Indians.
Duke in the rotation for an entire half of a major league season would give him and the Pirates a jump-start on the '06 campaign. He's certain to experience a few bumps in the road while pitching in the big leagues but wouldn't it serve the club better in the long run to have their top lefthanded pitching prospect getting his feet wet THIS season? It might cost Duke and the Pirates some wins this year but I would bet most fans would take the trade-off for the benefit of next year's club.
In that regard, perhaps a couple of wholesale changes in the outfield would pay huge dividends for the 2006 Pirates. It's becoming more and more apparent that the team is not sold on Tike Redman as their "answer" in centerfield and that Rob Mackowiak's best role might be as a "super-sub" for the time being.
Between now and the July 31st trade deadline, one must wonder if a club might like to have an experienced left-handed hitter in the person of Matt Lawton. If the Bucs were to move Lawton, they would then be able to get Ryan Doumit the at-bats they so desparately want him to get at the major league level. Who knows? With a short porch in right field, Doumit might be able to adapt to the outfield while providing the Pirates with some offensive punch from both sides of the plate.
There seems to be little doubt that the only pure centerfielder in the offing for the Pirates is playing at AAA Indianapolis in the person of Chris Duffy. He put on quite a show in spring training down in Bradenton but the Pirates made a mistake by bringing him to the big leagues earlier this year and not playing him. The lack of playing time hurt his progress when he was returned to Indy and got off to a very slow start. By all accounts, he's playing some of the best centerfield in the minor leagues these days and his average has been around .300 for over the past several weeks.
Two months (August and September) isn't much time to allow rookies to adjust to the major leagues but, in my opinion, it's a whole lot better than asking them to perform at a high level when a club leaves their spring training site and begins the regular season. The quicker these moves are made, the better off the Pirates will be in 2006.
While we're making big (and exciting) changes to the 2005 Bucs, let's start grooming a closer for next year! Jose Mesa has been nothing short of spectacular in his two seasons as the Pirates stopper. However, at some point, a successor needs to be thrown into the fire. Contending clubs will be looking for an inexpensive closer soon. It's possible they'll be calling Pittsburgh to inquire of Mesa's availability.
It's becoming more and more apparant in baseball that there are plenty of closers out there…. you just have to find them. The Brewers discoverd Dan Kolb a couple of years ago. This season, Derrek Turnbow has come out of nowhere. The Cubs tried a handful before settling on Ryan Dempster. The Nationals have the top closer in the league right now in Chad Cordero. How about B.J.Ryan? You can name a dozen closers who have only recently come on the scene and have enjoyed much success.
The Pirates have that new closer somewhere. Is it Mike Gonzalez? Perhaps. Perhaps not. He didn't look nearly as unhittable when put in pressure set-up roles this season but that might be due to his sore knee. What about Rick White? He's done it before on a handful of occasions with other clubs and, though he doesn't seem to be your protype closer, he just might be your guy. Perhaps he's somewhere else. Sometimes clubs have to get creative in these situations. Maybe a guy like Ryan Vogelsong (who has struggled mightily in the starters role and surely doesn't seem to have the command necessary to pull of the role as stopper) would rise to the challenge and turn into one of the league's best closers if given that chance. How about Ian Snell? They say his stuff is electric and he certainly has the demeanor for the job with an air of cockiness and confidence that would fit the mold.
All this is to say that the Pirates look to be at a crossroads. They don't seem to have what it takes to challenge for a playoff spot this year and, in order to be ready to contend for something next year (which the fans are practically demanding), some bold moves just might need to be made in the coming weeks or even days.
That's my two cents on the state-of-the-Bucs. What say you???????
Remembering Dad
I wouldn't be writing this blog if it weren't for Dad. It was he who introduced me to major league baseball. I think about him every day wishing he had gotten a chance to see his son broadcasting for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Dad was a Pirates fan growing up in Connellsville, PA just an hours drive east of Pittsburgh. His mother and father and all four siblings grew up big Buccos fans, attending games at Forbes Field and listening to Rosey Roswell and Bob Prince on KDKA radio during the days of Pie Traynor and Max Carey and Paul and LLoyd Waner.
Dad married a girl from nearby Greensburg, PA and, after spending time as a writer for a national sports publication in Chicago, he and Mom eventually moved to Washington D.C. where she could be closer to her family(Mom's dad was a congressman).
Dad would go on to become a top lobbyist for the coal industry and though he enjoyed the opportunity to meet often with the country's top politicians on capitol hill, he became weary of the disturbances around the D.C. area and decided our nations' capital was no place to raise seven children.
I was eight years old when the family moved to the Harrisburg, PA area. I loved playing sports with my five older brothers and neighborhood buddies but hadn't found an allegiance toward any professional sports team until one weekend, Dad brought me along on a business trip to Pittsburgh. We stayed at the Hilton hotel and the Golden Triangle in downtown Pittsburgh and we attended a game at the brand new Three Rivers Stadium in the summer of 1970. I was hooked!
For the next seven years, I'd make one trip to Pittsburgh spending time chasing down visiting major leaguers for autographs at the Hilton or the William Penn Hotel and attending a Pirates game at night at Three Rivers Stadium.
Dad loved asking me about the players from whom I had received autographs; and about what I liked best about the game. He would ask me about my favorite Pirates players (Parker, Moreno, Stargell) and I would recite their statistics and accomplishments.
Dad was pretty excited when, out of high school, I received an internship to work in the Pirates front office. Though he never admitted it to me, I think it surprised him and the rest of my family that this kid from Mechanicsburg, PA would wind up working for a major league baseball team.
I spent ten years in the Pirates front office working in various capacities. Mom and Dad would visit a couple of times each summer. I'd show them around the offices, take them down on the field, and introduce them to various members of the organization. Dad wasn't one for showing his emotions but I think he got a kick out of it all!
Later, I'd land a job broadcasting play-by-play for the minor league team in Buffalo, NY. Over a five year span, I'd eventually broadcast Buffalo Bills football, college hockey and basketball, and host a sports talk show; all the while giving Dad almost daily updates and sending along tapes that would allow him to listen to his son and provide critiques when neccesarry (Dad was a stickler for proper grammar.)
In the summer of 1992, Dad fell ill. It was most difficult on my mother. She knew he wasn't well but he had always refused to see doctors. He never wanted to be a burden. She was worried. I was never aware of the seriousness of his poor health because Dad would always put up a strong front during our phone conversations.
I'll never forget election night in November of 1992. We would often discuss politics. Dad had an amazing knowledge of world events and history and national issues. He was a long-time speechwriter for a handful of congressional leaders in the '60's and '70's and I was so proud of his association with some of the top politicians of our time.
It was with great interest that I called on election night to get his thoughts on Bill Clinton's victory over George Bush 41. I was so anxious to talk to him about where the country was now headed under a new leader.
But our conversation on this night was unusually brief. Dad was having some trouble talking and would try to suppress a cough before handing the phone back over to Mom. It was our last conversation together. I was in the room with Mom when Dad passed away on December 9, 1992.
During the last couple of hours at his bedside, Mom told me how proud Dad was of my accomplishments. Dad had never been one to express his emotions to his kids. He didn't have to say anything…we knew it. And I hope he knew how proud I was of him.
Just a year after his death, I was hired to broadcast major league baseball games for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Dad wasn't around when I made the call to Mom to give her the news. She was so excited….. she said Dad was too!
To Bunt or Not to Bunt!
Over the last several days, the bunt debate has arisen in Pittsburgh as the Pirates continue to hover near the bottom of the National League in sacrifice hits.
Veteran baseball fans harken back to the "old days" when every player in the lineup knew how to drop down a bunt to move a runner. "Why can't these guys bunt anymore?" is the question that pops up time and again on the talk shows and in the stands.
I'm a firm believer in bunting a runner over when the opportunity presents itself but only when the opportunity is there for a player who CAN bunt! Power hitters and RBI men are NOT bunters despite what some would have you believe.
I did some research on some former Pirates to find out how often they bunted to prove my point.
Roberto Clemente played 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He amasssed 3,000 hits and was inducted into Baseball's Hall Of Fame in 1973. He successfully dropped down a sac bunt 36 times over his brilliant career but 12 of those bunts came in his first two years in the major leagues, before he had established himself as real RBI threat. In fact, Clemente was credited with only two sacrifice hits over his last six seasons in the big leagues!
I was also curious to see what Willie Stargell did over his Hall of Fame career. Captain Willie is the Pirates all-time leader in home runs with 475. He actually was asked to bunt nine times over his 21 seasons in the majors but not once did he advance a runner via the bunt over his last 14 years with the Bucs!
Dave Parker's career numbers stunned me. I figured, before the Cobra became one of the most feared hitters in baseball, that he would have bunted a few runners over in his early Pirates days but, incredibly, Dave Parker was credited with exactly one sacrifice bunt over his entire 19-year major league career…and that bunt came in his very first season in the big leagues, 1973.
It seems apparent that over the last several decades not a whole lot has changed when it comes to the bunt. Players who could handle the bat and COULD bunt, were asked to perform that task. Those who were considered the run producers and RBI guys were not.
Former Pirates shortstop, Tim Foli, who helped lead the Pirates to the 1979 World Series Championship, sacrifice bunted 169 times over his 16-year major league career. Jay Bell, who followed Foli as one the Pirates most dependable shortstops, dropped down 159 sac bunts over his 18 seasons in the big leagues.
Bill Mazeroski, best remembered for the game-winning home run in 1960 to beat the Yankees and for his unparalleled defense at second base, had 87 sacrifice hits over 17 years. Al Oliver, a doubles machine over his years as an outfielder/first baseman covering 18 years in the majors bunted 17 times but only twice over his last five years!
How about one of the great power-hitters in Pirates history, Ralph Kiner? Kiner spent ten seasons in the major leagues, eight with the Buccos, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1975. He ranks second on the Pirates all-time home run list. Kiner sacrifice bunted nine times (interestingly enough, five of those nine bunts came in one season: 1954 with the Chicago Cubs, his second-to-last season in the majors.)
Since the current Pirates manager, Lloyd McClendon has what appears to be a more "American League" philosophy about the sacrifice bunt (don't give up an out unless it is absolutley necessary) I thought it might be interesting to see how often Mac bunted over his eight seasons in the big leagues…how about FOUR! Once each in 1988, 1989, 1992 and 1993.
So, what do you think about the sacrifice bunt? Is it used enough "these days?" Do the players who should know how to bunt, succeed?
To bunt or not to bunt… THAT is the question!!


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What a beautiful space! All the more so for having made it all yourselves. I can hear you humming as you work in there....ReplyDelete
Oh, Maria! You know how much I love your creative space! How marvelous that your hubby can build and fixed this up just like you wanted it to be! I've looked at almost all of the studios on Karen's list and yours is the one I love the most! :)ReplyDelete
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
So organized and I love the red and white gingham.ReplyDelete
I absolutely love your creative space as I have told you before!! I am envious at the size of the room! And i totally am in love with what you did with the closet!! I hope to do that in 2 years when Joe retires and I can get rid of all his postal uniforms and move my clothes back into our bedroom closet!!
Thanks for the inspiration!!
I LOVE your space! Clean, bright, airy, cheerful! And very good use of your closet space.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tour ~
I'd say it was definitely worth the wait! So pretty and functional and I love that it's all homemade!ReplyDelete
Your room is lovely. Truly a labor of love. It is so cheery and sunny, it would be hard to leave.thank you for sharing with us and may God bless your family for it's service to our country. It is nice to see you rewarded for your sacrifice.ReplyDelete
This is such a gorgeous and bright, cheerful room. Wow! To have everything handmade is a true labor of love. And your closet space is so well organized.ReplyDelete
This is a studio of my dreams:-)ReplyDelete
It's so clear, neat and bright. Creating for you must be just a pure pleasure:-)
What a wonderful creative space! You and your husband did a great job with all of the building projects and in setting it up to create in.ReplyDelete
Happy Creating ~ FlowerLady
You've really taken advantage of all usable space in the room and I like the running counter that allows for several workstations.ReplyDelete
Happy Crafting.
This space is sheer perfection! I love the red, white, and aqua color scheme, you have done a beautiful job designing and styling your studio to be effective and efficient. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
This pretty, lively, space is a credit to you.So glad you have a place to call your own now. Bet this is heaven for you after the long wait.New follower.ReplyDelete
Oh sweetie. First I got distracted and looked at your Christmas tour. I am sure your crafting etc space is lovely. I loved the home tour. I added you toReplyDelete
my favorites so I could come back by. Now I am off to read the post I came by form LOL. XXOO
Oh my goodness. I am so glad I am not a 'mean girl' ! I would be so jealous. I want to live in your space. It is so amazing. You are oneReplyDelete
blessed sister. I love the colors. And the way you used the different containers. Everything coordinates perfectly. I am going to definately have
to come back by. Thanks for sharing your space.
This is a well deserved beautifully designed creative space. Love it! Thank you and your family for serving in the military and giving so much for all those years, I know sacrifices are made, and I thank and honor your family! Happy Creating, CindyReplyDelete
It is always so much fun to see your creative space -- great colors, beautiful cabinetry & adorable vignettes!ReplyDelete
Wow, that is one incredible studio! I love the top shelves. I was considering doing that but wasn't sure how it would look. Thanks for giving me a visual to show my hubby :) The lighting to show off your pieces is the cherry on top. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Maria your studio is wonderful! The fact it was all hand built is really cool. I'm sure it makes it that much more special to you now that you have it. :) Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I hope you will do it again next year!!ReplyDelete
It's obvious I'm running late to the party, but I am so glad to be here now. I couldn't miss this opportunity to see your incredible studio. I was really impressed that you and hubby made it all yourselves. Of course, when you do that, you get exactly what you want. And knowing what you want and what works must have been on your mind through all those moves you made over the years. I adore the colorful and cheery room, and the new addition is awesome, too. It didn't take much to convince me how happy you are in this beautiful crafting space. There's so much to see here, I may take a few more minutes to check everything out.ReplyDelete
Welcome to the party and thanks for sharing this beauty for the first, but hopefully NOT the last, time.
I love your space. It is so organized at begs for creativity to happen. I love the blue pegboard and your sitting area.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on creating and building a beautiful room. I can't imagine anyone who deserves it more than a military wife. Thank you and your husband for you service on behalf of our country and freedom. I hope you have many happy and healthy years of crafting in this lovely space!ReplyDelete
Wow Maria, it's fabulous! Love all the work space you have and your storage space is amazing! Beautifully decorated!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing!
Hello Maria, I am so happy for you, that you finally have your dream space. I feel that way about mine, too. You are so organized, a place for everything and everything in it's place. I love all the details and the red gingham curtains . . . so pretty:) I am you newest follower and I would love to invite you over to visit and see my space. I'm also going to add you to my favorites list. I don't want to miss a single post.ReplyDelete
Your new blogging sister, Connie :)
P.S. tell your husband that we truly appreciate his service to this country that we love.
I am in awe of your amazing creative space.ReplyDelete
Brilliant space, so well organized and really well laid out everything.ReplyDelete
Really fun to see how you did everything from scratch and that you build it all on your own, that's amazing.
Very happy for you that you finally have a space to call your own. I really enjoyed this tour, glad you shared with us all :)
Big thank you also to your husband for his time he gave serving, and of course all the sacrifices you and your children gave along side him.
Happy retirement and creating!
(I'm now off to check your other posts and etsy shop)
Such a great crafting space! It's so neat and tidy! I really like the window on the wall in your sitting area. Pretty!ReplyDelete
Your room is cute as ever, Maria Elena! We are so lucky to have our own dedicated spaces!ReplyDelete
Such a Happy Room! Really like your color scheme!ReplyDelete
Fabulous, Marie Elena! You sure one lucky Lady, your room is to die for!ReplyDelete
It is so bright and cheery and all your storage WoW!
Thanks for sharing your incredible space!
Have a great weekend!
OMG, how fabulous! You and your hubster are very creative and handy to build everything yourselves. Well done and well deserved!ReplyDelete
I know I commented last year BUT I just had to comment again!! LOVE this space!! One question: What are you uising for lighting on the shelf along the ceiling? Just curious! And I so LOVE that closet!! Joe will be retiring soon and I am hoping that when he gets rid of all his postal clothes, I may be able to do this to the closet in my craft room. Thanks for sharing again! It is always a treat for the eyes!!
Gorgeous room. And you did it all yourselves! LOVE your bright happy organized creative place to play. Keep smiling and creating.ReplyDelete
What an amazing room! Just seeing it makes the crafter in me want to get in there and create something! Everything was so beautifully, and I'm so impressed with the building work you did! So bright and cheerful!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful space to create in. I love how you transformed your room into such a cheery place.ReplyDelete
everything is so well organized. You must love to go in there all the time.
Delightful area. Thanks for sharing some of the process on how you got there. LOVE that you have an island and with storage under as well as 'clean' work surface on top. Light airy and so tidy! Keep smiling and creating.ReplyDelete


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|Forests Around the Camp, The Wilderness
This forest is a mingling of hardwoods and temperate evergreens, with towering oaks and cedars mixed with slender alders. The ground is covered in grassy mosses and thick ferns — some with sharp, sword-like leaves and others with tight spiraled stems that unfurl toward the crowded canopy. Beyond the trees and ferns, the forest also hosts arching, moss-draped vine maples and flowering blackberry bushes as just some of its flora occupants.
Toward the west, the forest begins to break as the mountains climb, revealing meadow balds and the broad web of the divided Potomac.
|21 Days After Landing
It's not hard to find Kai. The wall's got eyes on her at least half the time, and indeed the female ex-C is currently taking a break from her digging up against her tree. Expertly watching the field.. with her eyes closed. Okay, so more like she's been running on fumes for two days and the food break she was clearly taking became somewhat of a nap break, propped up against a tree with her rifle across her knee's.
Grey shouldn't be up and walking around in the slightest. Since he left on the morning of the 18th, he's taken exactly three breaks, to sleep a few hours and then get up and start walking or jogging again. Still, despite the lure of his bed (and perhaps with the knowledge that he may well be giving up another tent in the near future), he's changed into his armored Grounder jacket — left open to appease the med-techs — and now carries a rifle openly, barrel-down across his chest in a ready sling. He asks a few workers here and there, and finds himself limping up to Kai in a minute or two. "Adams." He speaks once, then moves carefully away from the barrel end of her rifle and gives her nearest foot a nudge with his toe, repeating himself a little louder, "Adams."
Kai's eyes flutter open with a groan,"I'm up." the first words uttered as she endeavors to open her eyes wider than strictly necessary and wipe her hands over her face, adding a,"Fuck." onto that when it sinks in where she is. There's a glance up at him before she slides her rifle about her and dredges herself up from her spot with a sigh,"Grey." she acknowledges, then after another moment elects to add,"It is good to see you and the others back. For the record. I hope like hell you're well enough to aim though."
"Bullshit." The assessment to her claim to be up is given with a snorting sort of laugh. "Stay down though." Grey painfully unslings his own rifle before lowering himself carefully down to his knees, and then rolling into a sitting position alongside her, his rifle braced across his own knees so that the barrel points in the opposite direction. "Ow, shit. Ow." He grunts, letting his head rest back against the rough bark of the tree, "Yeah. We pushed hard to come back after that Trikru rage-bitch," apparently he's not so soft on all Grounders, "said the camp was already under attack. But Lip and I were slowin' things down." He rubs the heels of his hands against his temples for a moment, despite the pain lifting his right arm causes, and for a moment, Kai gets to see something that Gray simply didn't show up on the Ark, weakness. "It's all gone. Seven hundred people, plus however many hundreds of our own were on the ship. Just… gone."
He's coming down, so she stops, sinking back into her spot again with a wry smirk at his 'ows' that fades away before giving a nod,"I heard." she confirms quietly,"They tortured Cass and Asher.. infected them with this blood fever shit, and left them in the woods for us to find. To pass on the message we're all fucked." she drags a knee up to rest an elbow on,"We got lucky. Some of the guys from that village managed to call them off, but that was the small party. Tomorrow, day after at the latest.. hundreds of them are coming here."
Grey looks around the hilly area that the dropship came down into, grimacing sharply, "Don't know if it's better to try to clear the bushes, or use 'em to hide all the nasty booms Cole's going on about." He sighs heavily, patting the receiver of the rifle across his knees, "I'd been hoping to use these as a bargaining chip. Like, 'back the hell off or we open fire so much that the Mountain'll definitely notice, and then you're screwed too.' Guess I shoulda shared that plan." His fingers caress the sharp lines of machine-stamped steel on the rifle, "Way I hear it, unless the order to stop comes from the Heda, their sort of Chancellor, the kruheda, their Councilor, she's got free rein to do whatever she wants. So we either gotta convince the kruheda or the Heda to back off, or we've gotta stack so much Trikru cordwood around the walls that they pull back. And I don't think we've got the ammo for that, especially not with untrained shooters."
"So we'll do what we do and survive. Always so negative, Kai." Words so rough and gravelly they sound like stones rolling down a mountain across each other, once rich an resonant and pleasant. A voice belonging to the monstrously big ex-C who caught an arrow in the throat yesterday on the front line of the fight and who is now slipping quietly out from some trees in that damnably sneaky way he has for someone so big. Billy Boy Scout Stone shouldn't be up and walking any more than Grey, with his throat newly stitched up and Morgan likely to have an apoplexy if he tears it, but here is the big guy, bare torso doing a Mummy impression with all the bandages, a cargo vest slung loosely over it, a rifle carried openly, sling over less damaged shoulder. As he's slowly striding in, an upnod given to Grey with easy grin, he's answering the man's last comment. "We don't have the ammo. Me an' others been crankin' through it and we're comin' up with more duds than I like and gonna be done sooner than I like too. We've still got a pretty decent stack, but not enough for any more full auto. Was wasted effort anyways. I only went that route for the first shot in the battle, hopin' it'd scare them off. Didn't even pause 'em."
"'scuse me while I find my happy face." Kai snarks for Stone without even pausing to add,"Holes." Kai and Grey are against the tree, and the worn out looking female ex-C gestures out into the tree-line,"Inner ring of spikes.. gopher holes.. outer ring of caltrops. Any mine's they get finished can go in the holes I've already made as an extra little fuck you." she opines,"And we tried that.. rather, Stone did that. We didn't open fire until it was fucking obvious they weren't going to listen. I remember the warning about not using them.. but bluntly, we're all already dead. These might keep us alive a little longer, I'm not going to die to the Grounders for what the Mountain /might/ do." she grunts a nod,"Yeh.. they were.. sort of trying to take me through that shit when Wren and his friends showed up. And man what I wouldn't do for a lot more trained shooters right now. But I figure you and Stone, and a few others if they can fit.. up in the sniper nest.." formerly known as the top of the dropship,"The rest of the untrained and whatever others of us are still mobile will be on the ground. Hopefully the techs can get us a few bombs and this shit.." she gestures out at her field,"might stop them from pulling down the wall again. At least short term. Any non-com's we need in the dropship and we just.. try to make it as costly as possible in the hopes they back the fuck off. Single-shots for the newbs. Controlled groups from you lot. The longer we can hold them on this side of the wall, the better our chances are.. but bluntly I figure anyone on the ground is dead."
Grey nods upward to Stone in greeting, "Yeah. I promised Greery," That would be Faolan, who has been doing a lot of the rifle-and-ammo-guarding lately, "that I'd come up and help sort rounds too." He shrugs slightly at the reports of the battle, "But how many people were firin'? If it'd been…" and then he shakes his head, "Nevermind. Too late for that now anyway." Letting out a little breath, he listens to Kai's report, "I'd assume that the Trikru're watchin' just about everything we do. So anything we want to be a surprise, it's gonna have to be behind the wall, or somethin' like that." He grunts thoughtfully, "What about… uh… shit…" he's looking for the right word now, "Bunkers? Foxholes, whatever. Outside the wall? Some way to keep 'em away from the wall without leaning over like a big target. Oh, and screw you, Adams. I'm still mobile." Ish. "I'm gonna be right on the front lines, where I belong."
"Happy face, Kai. Happy face." Stone quips in that horror-voice with a shit-eating grin for the girl, moving to lean his bulk against a tree across from the pair stiffly, a hand reaching up to scratch at a bandaged shoulder already healing well. Grey's talk of the number firing, brings a small shrug from the big guy, but he doesn't interrupt to justify their wasting that particular element of surprise just yet. The talk of bunkers earns a thoughtful arch of thick brow, but he's shakin' his head a bit. The last bit about being on the front lines earns the man a grin and a raspy snort and Stone's finally replying in that terrible voice. "I haven't decided if I'm gonna be up there again or if I'd just manage better sniping for now. Not much use to anyone when a single stitch pop and I bleed to death shortly after. An' trust me, it hurts my male pride like a mother fluffer havin' to admit that." Another snort and he's adding. "The bunkers I think might be nasty. I saw them puttin' arrows through half-foot firing slits in our wall at 30 yards. Bein' trapped in a little box with about the same hole, no one's gonna be able to dodge. As to the numbers of guns…eh, we still can make a grand show of noise-makin'. For now all they know is we got two functional and a couple guns that they never saw fire a bullet. But I get what you were gettin' at."
"Me and him." Kai chins in Stone's direction,"Bonheur had a rifle, next time she doesn't get one. She can't follow orders for shit. Morgan and Elias focused more on keeping people like Fi alive. We'd have won if there had been more of us." at least, that's her opinion on it. She makes a handwave gesture,"Thought about it, but that's definitely a death warrant. Outside of our lines in the middle of an army that has been doing this shit since they were old enough to hold a spear." she rolls her eyes in Grey's direction,"You and that lunk there are some of the best shooters we have. You're already fucking injured, and right now you're more useful putting bullets in people from a spot they're going to have trouble reaching. You want to think with your dick, you go right on ahead cowboy, doesn't change that you and him." she nods in Stone's direction,"Are more useful raining death from on high than you're going to be on the ground. You run out of bullets and decide that you want to play pincushion by all means, be my guest.. this aint about keeping your ass safe. That spot worked. It needs to be manned by people who know what the fuck they're doing." the grey-eyed girl growls for both of them with a shake of her head, shoving herself forward so she can grab her shovel and move to start digging more holes as they talk simply because 'awake' right now for her amounts to 'get back to work'.
"You did win." Grey gestures back to the camp, "Everyone in there's still alive, and we got the time to fix the wall. That's a win, even if the Trikru from C-Bur helped." He shakes his head a little at Kai's mention of thinking with his dick, although he waits until she's done before responding, "I promised people that I'd be there if they were in trouble. I'm not gonna hide my ass away while they're standin' on the walls takin' arrows." The idea of bunkers is apparently shrugged off, although he does note to both of the other ex-Cs, "If they can get up to the base of the wall without trouble, we're kinda screwed."
Stone, for his part, takes Kai's rant with an easy grin and relaxed acceptance he's known for, even the language that he's long since given up on trying to lecture her about. At the end of it though, he can't help but quip aside to Grey in that gravelly voice from hell. "Reminds me of her dad when she gets all feisty and foul-mouthed like that." Unlike most of the ex-C's though, Stone says that with surprising admiration rather than as mockery of her father and her in turn, even if he couldn't resist the teasing. "I think that long-haired guy, Jumar, was gonna come lookin' for you after finishing up helpin' with the bullets, by the way. He had some ideas about some trickier traps out here for Operation Pigsticker usin' the powah of physics or somethin'." The powah of physics is given with a little 'jazz hands' gesture and a lopsided smirk. "Told him to ping you about it. Had a couple people already ping about Operation Madness too, so hopefully we'll have some bodies there with some degree of sense." He shuts up after that, taking in Grey's talk, nodding minimally (and even that causing an ugly wincing) in agreement with him, respect even as well, though he probably won't be following suit this once. To the end part though, he's frowning, offering up in rough perplexity. "They didn't even really try the wall it seemed like. Weirdest thing. The melee mostly jus' ran from tree cover to tree cover while the archers picked us apart. Probably tryin' to draw fire an' didn't expect to take hits until my first stream caught one in the face and another's hand. Those archer's though were freakin' vicious good shots." A hand unconsciously reaches up to very, very tenderly touch the blood-soaked bandages at his throat, memory clear.
"And you will be there. By protecting them from above." Kai argues, ignoring the 'won' entirely,"And that's sort of why I'm busting my ass planting these things. They used horses to pull it down. Found the tracks out there. So holes to break ankles. Caltrops so that if they bring the horses in again it'll fuck them up. We're already stripping as many branches from the trees as possible for this project for better sight-lines. If we have the time and people I'm going to sabotage other ones to give them less places to freaking hide and more ways of hurting themselves." hissed lowly with her back to the woods as if that might help keep any listeners from hearing, the grey-eyed girl squatting down again,"We're screwed no matter what. Most of what I'm trying to create out here makes it a risk to our people, not just theirs, but what it does is provide ways for them to hurt themselves before they even get close to the damned camp." Stone's words about daddy dearest strike a nerve, clearly given the sudden scowl that crosses her face, a muscle in her jaw twitching as she squints at her feet and counts to ten in her head,"Whatever they can build fast. The more that we can take out without the risk of lives, the better."
Grey nods at Stone's commentary, "Except without quite so much ramrod up the ass." Beat pause, and he looks to Kai, "That's a compliment. But you can give me all the orders you want, Adams, I'm gonna be on the wall with everyone else." He grunts at the mention of Operation Madness, "A whole lotta people want rifles. I think half of them are scared of bein' without when we have 'em, and don't give a shit about the Grounders. Wouldn't be surprised if some of them are plannin' on shootin' other Arkers if they make it down." He frowns in thought at the description of the battle though, nodding his agreement, "Makin' us burn ammo, although they probably just expected arrows and spears." Kai's fatalism causes him to shake his head, "Screw that. I'm not ready to die just yet." Arrow through the ribs not-withstanding, apparently, "I'm not plannin' ways to make more of them die. I'm tryin' to plan ways that we live. That's why I want to try to take a shot at Sonia if someone can point her out. Maybe put Cassandra up in the nest as a spotter? Indra too if it comes to that. Kill the most-pissed-off, maybe we can talk to the rest."
Stone looks a little guilty at that tension in Kai about the dad, but doesn't make things worse by apologizing. He just looks down at the ground more like his old shy self and holds his tongue to take in the words of her preparations. Grey's lack of nihilism brings dark eyes back up and a big grin to follow it. "That's the spirit. I'm all for it. Heh, I even had the stupid idea that if it comes down to it, I wonder how they'd take me backtrackin' their camp, sneakin' in and tryin' to pop the witch in the nose and challenge her to a duel. They want their 'blood will have blood', they could have mine…but only if she beat me." Yeah, cause he totally looks like he's in a state to do _that_ right now. Still, it's a pretty little fantasy to go try, even if he knows it's a stupid one.
Kai gives Grey a flat-eyed look,"Aint an order, Grey. It's trying to make use of what resources we have in the best way I can. And yes, a whole lot do. And yes, most of them cannot be trusted with the damned things, and yes, we are likely to have to pry them from their hands afterwards at gunpoint. But as long as they can do what needs doing in the short-term, that's a risk I'm willing to take. Specifically because I'm not about to lay down and die for them either." there's a slow, sardonic smile from her,"Wanna know who is going to be the best couple of people to /make/ that shot if she spots them?" and out her hands go in gesture towards them both,"Like seriously guys. We have a couple dozen murderers.. doesn't mean they know how to fight a war. If we cannot work together, we have no hope of making them work together."
"Don't know if they go in for single combat." Grey frowns thoughtfully, "Could ask Gideon. But if they do, I bet you wouldn't have to get to their camp, just call her out." His fingers tap against the body of the rifle across his knees, "Gotta be careful with that though. They have been learning to fight their whole lives, and not with firearms." There's a pause, and he shrugs a little uncomfortably, "Besides, I already told Oxfor that I'd pay the price for folks if the crash was intentional." The question of who the best shot is causes Grey to point a finger across to Stone, shrugging slightly, "Me, I was always more comfortable with a shock baton." That's verging on awkward reminders to those around him of his own crime, "None of us know how to fight a war, Adams. But the Trikru does. We're gonna have to hope to tech, to tricks, or to talkin' if we want to get outta this alive."
"Speakin' of the new resident Trikru hotty…" Stone gravel-rasps onward, maybe trying to change the subject since this argument's one he doesn't think Kai's going to win. "I was thinkin' of inviting her to the gun trainin' to watch if she wanted. Worst case, she see's how terribad most of our shooters are and tells the enemy. Best case, she sees how many guns we have and how many are ready to use them and tells the enemy and they rethink things." Or maybe it's just cause she's hot. One can never trust teenage males when it comes to females after all.
"Ask her." Kai suggests to Grey,"But if so.. me and the other uninjured will draw lots or something to work out who gets to play pincushion." she wipes her hands through her hair,"Know? No. But tactics was one of the few things my father and I actually agree on. It's why I'm perfectly okay with that girl.. Gideon? Being here. It's why I've been trying to get Wren to give me more information. The better we understand the way they fight, the better we can prepare for it. I'd freaking love to pick Kane's brain right now, but instead I'm working off of what I remember and making a bunch of shit up in the hopes that it'll keep us alive a little longer."
<FS3> Grey rolls Deception: Success.
<FS3> Stone rolls Alertness: Good Success.
<FS3> Kai rolls Alertness: Good Success.
Grey shifts in his seat at Stone calls Gideon a hotty, "Better not to." He looks down at where his fingers trace patterns on the side of the rifle, "She's jumpy around rifles, like most'a the Trikru." Drawing in a breath, he lets it out in a slow hiss, "But she's not gonna tell the enemy anything. She's givin' up everything she ever knew to be here." No, you can't trust teenage males with hot females, provided their inclinations are in that direction. Clearing his throat, he half-turns with a grimace of pain, pushing his way up the treetrunk to stand again, "But she's gonna be back soon. I got a set of fatigues waitin' for her."
Well _that_ got another arched brow from the gigantic ex-C, and even a little raising of hands in a 'I give' sort of gesture of a man backing off that idea on more than one level. "K then. Anyways, I was actually wanderin' out here for a reason before you two distracted me. Was gonna check to make sure both of you had the cycled in good mags. I'm huntin' down the last of our unchecked sets to go through before the training." Stone seems content with leaving that whole matter be and moving on it seems, so hormones don't trump loyalty.
"She's already back. She came in when Wren and I were talking. I gave her my granddad's Devil's tee." Kai notes as she gets to her feet, apparently she don't swing that way given the girl doesn't have any reaction with regards to the idea of Gideon being hot,"But Grey's right. She's as dead as the rest of us if she gets caught here. That makes her okay in my book." she dusts her hands off on her pants,"But speaking of training, maybe we should see who we can gather and give rifle 101, yeh?" there's a nod from her to Stone,"Oh I made sure I was on the first rotation of that, yeh. Sure as shit not interested in having another dud round."
Grey's shoulders tighten at Stone's gesture, as if to protest, but he just shakes his head, patting his mag, "Yeah. Got good ones. The few we got. Figured we wouldn't do any live-fire training. no ammo for it." He looks back to the camp at Kai's note, frowning in thought, then nods, "Yeah. Tell you what. Gimme a couple-ten minutes to get her settled in, then we can start drawing people around for some training."


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My dad is not doing well again, now my sister is having some health issues and our oldest son is struggling with some personal issues. I ask that you remember all 3 in your prayers. We are thankful that we can be here for all of them.
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