2025 Life Logs, Day 307: Soccer Sadness
Date: Monday, November 3, 2025
Weather: Overcast, Windy, and Rain; High Temp 54, Low 44 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
After a Monday morning walk with Shadow, Archie, and Archie’s mother, my friend Joanie Thompson, I returned home and tuned in a little late for a Falmouth Immigrant Rights Coalition meeting on Zoom. Then I switched gears. I stepped away from work for a couple of hours to dig up plants outside to bring them inside for the winter. It had already started raining by the time I got outside, but it was a gentle rain, so I didn’t mind. I got the parsley, the sage, and the rosemary potted and brought inside, as well as a poinsettia plant. I also potted a Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia sequine) house plant and delivered it to a neighbor. This is a plant I have had since the early 1970’s. It just grows and grows, and I cut off pieces and root them and give them away. By the time I got that done, it was time to have a late lunch and go pick Ollie up after school to take him to his horseback riding lesson. Unfortunately, there was another mix up and the lesson didn’t happen. Due to the rain, I texted the instructor to make sure there was going to be a lesson. She got back to me apologizing that for the second week in a row, she was going to be a no-show due to a change in her work schedule. I can understand that, but it would have nice if she had let us know. So, I just took Ollie home after school and I went home to prep for a taco dinner with Ollie and Jonah after Jonah’s soccer game.
Tonight’s soccer game was a quarter finals game for the state championship and Falmouth lost 0-1. I rained off and on during the entire game. Falmouth played hard, did a great job on defense, but just couldn’t get the ball in the net. They were visibly shaken by the loss, but I know Jonah and his good friends Kaiden and Jean Luc will soon be looking forward to giving it another go next year.
