School is Cool!

Hello~Hello

It's the 15th of the month so it's time for another Duel between the Darlings and Divas. The theme this month is "School Is Cool" and Jamie is our hostess this month with a super cute card kit to play with! I chose to use the super cute bus image, and a coordinating sentiment on the inside of my card. The patterned paper is from DCWV (had to make sure that apple made it in somewhere ~ love it!). I loooove the yellow pom-pom ribbon.  The primary colors used for my card are Real Red, YoYo Yellow, and Bashful Blue (all SU!) Below is the inside of my card. 

As part of this month's challenge, the hostesses asked us if we would share a favorite school memory....I graduated from McFarland High School in 1990.  Go Spartans (we share the same fight song with the University of Michigan, although my mind likes to just think that we share our song with them!) My best times from school were sports related.  I was part of the Boys' High School Baseball Team for 3 seasons. I was team score-keeper. So I kept track of the hits, runs, errors. etc. I also did some pitching charts, keeping track of where the ball was hit by the opposing team so that we could position the defense more accurately the next time the opposing team came to bat. Each hitter has different "tendencies". Some hit the ball to all fields (left right and center) some are dead-pull hitters, some always hit to the opposite field. Anyhow, that was my involvement with the team. I was the only girl on the bus *grin*. Unfortunately we had more losses than wins.....but my time spent with the team and learning with the game were some of the fun times of my teenager years. 

The picture below shows my two letters I earned from high school sports - the left one is a boys' letter from my senior year with the baseball team (at the time ~ it was thought that I was one of the first girls in WIAA state history to letter in boys baseball ~ I never found out if that was really true). The letter on the right is from playing Fall Girl's Tennis ~ something I am also very proud of. It was not until my senior year that I was able to participate as an athlete in sports. I always loved tennis, I'm sure before joining the team I launched more than my share of tennis balls on to the roof of the high-school. My senior year was probably my favorite year of all my school year. 

This year, more school memories are being created as my niece Octavia (Miss Tavi) begins her learning journey, how time flies! :)

Anyhow, if you are still reading this, you've made it through my long blab about my school memories ~ and I will give you all an A+ for bearing with me today...
:-)

I hope you enjoyed my post for today, Please check out the other Darling Diva's as well ~ to see what they have on their blog waiting for you:


Judy, Barb, Laura Jean (me) Judy, Jamie, Kelly Joan and Carol


you can start here, at Jeanette's blog for our friendly duel ~

thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your Thursday!
 

Hugs ~ LJ!