No I did not go back to Africa. We had a wonderful weekend. Saturday, I got to hang with my home boys at the club. We enjoyed watching Tim T figure out his new distance measuring tool. Not to pick on Tim, but with a little work, he could become a Luddite. After the breakfast, Devin, (oops sorry Devin does not want to be mentioned in the blog anymore so I will say gorgeous brunette and we will know who I am talking about.) this gorgeous brunette and I donned our walking shoes and went on a nice walk. It was 3.8 miles above a local campground and you actually felt like you were out in the woods. It was a great morning. Then we went to the home improvement store and bought sanding blocks and Thompson's water seal. The project for the day was to sand down this gorgeous brunette's work bench (made by her father many years ago) and move it to the back yard and use it for an herb ranch. Yes I was sanding and painting while she tore bushes out of the ground and worked on the sprinklers.

All of this was going on while we supervised Man Child's valiant attempt to get caught up on all of his work he missed last week. He got a lot done on Saturday, but by dinner time were all a we bit tired. I enjoyed and nice bottle of 2006 Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve Colli della Toscana Centrale IGT with a reasonably sized pan fried steak and salad.

The bottle from Tuscany was great after about 30 minutes. It had some nice fruits like currant, rhasberries, blackberry working. On the nose we got some herbs like rosemary and flowers. It had a nice smooth finish, but should shape up nicely over the next few years. We have 7 of them left.

We slept in a bit on Sunday, but still had not read Barron's or even looked at the market since Friday afternoon. We decided we would get as much done as possible on Jack's Homework before the big game. I assisted with the copious amount of religion homework. The Topic was the Pauline Letters. Now for you non Catholics and or agnostics and or atheist or people of another faith. The Pauline letters were not from some Biblical Babe named Pauline. They are the letter attributed to St. Paul. He did a lot of blogging and even some things he did not blog were attributed to his hand. We were focusing on 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, but my favorite (because it was the shortest)was his letter to Philemon. I liked it because it brings up that age old question which all of us ask, was the imprisoned St. Paul actually asking Philemon for the release of all of the slaves under his ownership or was he just seeking permission from Philemon to allow this one slave Onesimus to join him in spreading the Good word of our Lord? But I digress.

We all enjoyed the Super Bowl and despite me choosing the wrong team, came in second place in the season long football pool.

That right, out of thousands of contestants, I came in second place winning a fortune. Ok maybe it was not thousands, or even hundreds. Actually by the time the season was over I think we had about 23 people in the pool. I will still take second place and the cash and the bragging rights as I am a basically insecure person.

We also enjoyed good all American Superbowl Food, a big plate of Nacho's. Then after the game it was homework wrap up, pack the bags for school, and let the games begin. Basketball practice begins at 6:00 AM tomorrow for his last three days of practice, the last game on Thursday, and then next weekend he starts conditioning for football next year.