Monthly Archives: May 2011

Tough Stuff

I’ve never considered myself to be a tough chick.

Sure, I don’t mind getting dirty, I’ve summited some pretty serious mountains, and my husband likes to brag that I guided the Upper Gauley when I was just a mere 1st year river guide.

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I’m not a tough girl but Saturday night I watched some seriously tough chicks, er, be tough.

It was wild.  It was crazy.   It was the Brawl on the Mall!

Those dames are tough and so is their audience!

“Oh, so body slamming is legal but elbowing’s not?”

The half-time show lite up the arena!

Best part?  All the shoving is for a good cause.  The team is not-for-profit and picks a charity to donate the proceeds from each game.  Saturday nights recipient was the Virginia Discovery Museum.  $7 well spent.

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Thanks


Thanks for the flowers!  I love them!

Were they a “congratulations” because I covered 150 running/walking miles in April?

But how did you know that alliums and irises are my favorites?

And that I love the colors purple and yellow together?

Whoever you are, you made my Sunday morning!  Should I just leave your milk bottle on the back porch?

P.S. If these flowers were intended for Tate please don’t tell me!  Let me go on believing some sweet soul out there wanted my birthday month to start with a thoughtful little gesture meant just for me.  Or at least both of us.

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