Today is the last day for junior cricket signups and my last free Saturday morning for a while to come. Every year it's the same thing, and as much as I love the kid's sport, I also love my days at home. Alex will only be allowed to play another year in junior cricket so I go along knowing that next year I might have my Saturday mornings to myself. Alex is pretty excited about the season starting, he has a new helmet this year to go with the kit that I bought him last year, and his batting has improved considerably. Their school cricket team has won every game so far and they've been all over playing one school after another. Alex started one game as their opening batter and scored 22 runs, his best score yet, and he stayed in for most of the game. He was rapt.
Touch football has been going for about 5 weeks now and that's held in Wagga on a Saturday afternoon. In past years we've had to rush from cricket over to touch but as the kids get older the games are played later in the day so we don't have to rush any more.
We've been very lucky with the weather, there's been no rain to spoil any sporting events. The local farmers wouldn't call it luck though, they're losing crops all over and would dearly love to see some rain, and my gardens are screaming out for some too. We've also had water restrictions and the back lawn is looking brown and sad. They haven't had a good soaking for some time.
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