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Cross country and autumn

When I first began blogging, I posted about my kids a lot, including bits and pieces of family life.  Then I got a bit leery…there are so many weirdos out there, and sometimes stalkers.   So I quit including stuff about the kids.  I miss that.  So I’m including just a little bit, and definitely blurring out the faces to protect the children!

Autumn is probably my favorite season!  I’m not wild about summer heat, and my birthday is in autumn.  I LOVE the crisp air as it returns, the smell of woodstoves burning, the crisp crackle of the leaves as they turn try on the branches and fall.  I love kicking my feet through the leaves lining the edges of our country roads (what’s a sidewalk?  I know they have them on all 2 1/2 blocks of down town, but really, sidewalks?).  Look at the screaming blue skies in this photo of the Camden boys at the starting line… you can tell from the bystanders wearing long sleeves that crisp air has arrived:

After my wonderful day with the Frayed Edges earlier this month, I drove from Bowdoinham (sorta southern-ish  to us…down south near Freeport, which is home to LL Bean and about 45 minutes north of Portland), I drove north to Searsport for a cross-country meet.  Our younger son is a born athlete as well as scholar…I swear there is not a sport on the face of the earth that he doesn’t want to try. And he is good…sometimes really good…at most of them!   After surprising us in spring with a request to try track, he wanted to do cross country this fall.

The cross country coach for the Camden-Rockport Middle School is Jim Morse, possibly one of the best of the best of teachers.  He teaches 6th grade social studies and, with his partner in excellence CRMS Librarian Kathy Foss, comes up with all sorts of amazing and wonderful ways to teach the kids. Last year Eli not only had Mr. Morse for Social Studies, but was lucky to be in home room with him.  Mr. Morse is also a jock, and on this day (you can see him in the next photo in the plaid shirt talking to the boys before the race beings) he was a bit achy as he had (WAY TO GO JIM!) just completed his first marathon the day before! WOW!  I could maybe bicycle 26 miles, but run it?  EEEEK!

And they’re off!

taken through the chain link fence...Eli took off so fast all you can see on the far right is his elbow!

Once again, the CRMS teams, boys and girls, trounced the competition.  Both teams have come in first in EVERY meet they have run this year!

One Response to “Cross country and autumn”

  1. Maggie Szafranski Says:

    We have had awesome fall weather here! I think it is because we had such a lousy summer! I am totally enjoying all of the fall colors!