holiday weekend update

the technology took a bit of figuring out, so we haven't gotten the turkey pics up yet; in the meantime, terri and emma found a good price on plane tix and decided to take a last-minute holiday weekend trip out to LA to see the swartz family. doug and ben played golf this morning, and spent some time at the ball field seeing if ben might have a few pitches up his sleeve if needed in the upcoming playoffs (they begin the tuesday after next; he played short stop a few innings this last week and did well). the old ball team hasn't had a great summer (2-7 right now) but a lot of close games, everyone in the playoffs, and a couple of key kids supposed to be back next week. other big news for the week was the start of summer music lessons--emma's doing her usual drums, and ben started bass lessons (one of his birthday presents).