Well, I got an extra day handed to me this afternoon: our girls crashed and burned in the first two rounds of a double elimination tourney. Two games back to back, the second one immediately after the first, against a fresh team, in 90 plus degree heat and dry wind. They were good games, though; ten - eleven year old girls can sometimes do some pretty amazing things with a softball and an aluminum bat; if only they were consistent. It will come with experience, though. So, their season is over; they will start back again in August as 12 - 13 year old section of the league. During the summer off season, a bunch of us parents/grandparents have arranged for batting cage sessions for those who want to participate individually, and will work on their conditioning and skills with them; they can't practice formally as a team according to league by-laws, but this will keep most of them sort of on and in their game. This is a pretty hard on me now, with my granddaughter, but I still am enjoying it. Thirty years ago, with her dad and uncle, it didn't even faze me, but age and fast, hard living do ultimately take their toll on a body, and i can't do anything with her as it relates to softball that requires me to move very much; i walk with a cane, now, and shagging balls or doing anything that will throw me off balance is simply out of the question. But I can feed a pitching machine, and sit on a stool behind a net and pitch, and I can throw, so I suppose I can get her some workouts in.