April 9, 2010
Oh well, still no fishing...............
But it was a big week. Jay, Holly and Cooper (and everyone else in NC based on the traffic we saw) came to see us for Easter weekend and we all had a big time. Although still a little cool, Cooper managed to get checked out as a skipper in training on the yellow boat Saturday afternoon.
Here is a picture of the young trainee

Guess who this is...................twenty guesses and the winner gets to pay for a year in college. She'll be ready in just a few weeks, so be on alert!

This is for you Nephew Kevin, we stopped him and told him he was needed for an emergency call to Fairbanks, AK but he wasn't buying into our ruse. We did try; wonder where he was going to eat lunch?

Sunday afternoon we went to Richmond, then on to Hampden-Sydney early Monday morning for a full day on campus. After meeting with deans, financial officers (BTW, who is going to pay for all of this?), the ROTC liaison (no, not his freshman year) and a football coach, Jackson signed on the dotted line to become a member of the class of 2014. We're really proud of him and helping us by winning a Patrick Henry Scholarship.

The bypass is now open around Chockowinity and Little Washington. It takes 10 minutes off the ride to Rocky Mount; which will come in handy when and if we get the chance to watch Jackson play ball in the fall. There is a good chance he might start at punter as a freshman.
Did my first bike ride of the year, and walked 9 holes of golf Thursday.

Got a little bit of vacation left, maybe we'll have a chance to get out on the boat some this weekend along with all the dingbatters.

In the office all next week

Oh yeah, I saw somewhere on the back pages of the newspaper that Duke won the national championship; great year of getting the most of his players' talents. Picked as co-leaders of the ACC (not going to mention with whom) and ended up winning it all. The unexpectedness was pretty neat.