Solar System Survey

It has been extraordinarily busy here for the last few months. It was thus that we found ourselves coming up on the end of the school year and having not yet written a song for Katie's teacher, Mrs. Sharko. We knew what we wanted to write, but actually putting pen to paper was being challenging. We had had discussion on the subject with Katie and Julie. We had nothing actually written down.

And then on Thursday night, I started my vacation.

And at 3 AM I woke up Gretchen and rapped out a verse to her.

"Can I go back to sleep now?"

"Yes. Yes, you can."

Not much later, but much more awake, we managed to finish pulling everything together. While performing the song as a rap was a possibility, setting a tune to it was going to be a better choice. :)

And today, Katie was able to take the recording of the song to Mrs. Sharko, who likes it.

It is only deadline that would get me to record something with this case of bronchitis... :)

Anyway, here are the lyrics:
( Lyrics inside... )

Meanwhile, Back on the Softball Field

Katie's team met the team from Norwood Park today at Chippewa, which is our home field.

It was an unusually close and low-scoring game which Katie's team won by the final score of 2-1, with Katie driving in both runs with a first inning double. And she got the game ball, which made her very happy!

And I'll just say that the Norwood Park manager was everything that I like to see in a manager at this level.