Henry & Friends teach Baseball clinic

Have a 7-12 year old who wants to join a Baseball clinic led by Palo Alto High School baseball players? Follow the link below to register.

Baseball clinic for 7- to 12-year-olds, Dec. 10-11, 2022

Cottage 2.0 project

Haven’t posted in a while. Hopefully friends/family have kept up to date via Facebook. FYI, we’re embarking on a re-boot of our backyard cottage in order to make it a full-fledged modern ADU. We’ll be doing a lot of cleaning-out and selling-off in order to make space for construction. So if you have a need for a replacement grill, basketball hoop, random furniture… please drop a line.

I’ll post items as they get listed and as I think of it. Thanks!

**Updated below**

Basketball hoop (*it sold to a nice family in Half Moon Bay with a 13 year old*)

Lots more still available — Here it is on Craigslist – (*pulled it down – sold or gave away most everything – it was a busy weekend*)

But… The best item that somehow didn’t go – my “hockey gear drying guy” — is still here!?!? I made it myself – Make me an offer and it’s yours! (old smelly gear not included)

Henry’s having a great first season of HS Baseball

Henry’s having a good time as a freshman member of the Paly JV baseball team.

The Vikings are renowned, with the Varsity team ranked 14 in California as of this writing, and with 15 alumni MLB draft picks including Joc Pederson.

As the JV ‘closer’, his pitching stats are towards the top of the chart. So far he’s pitched 6 games in relief, his fastball hits 80, and he’s rung up 15 strike outs. He’s doing a good job shutting down batters in the late innings, with a WHIP of just .346 and a Batting Average Against of only .069.

Isabel gets famous at UCI

Here she is – promoting the joy of being an Anteater!

Isabel Wins Writing Award

Isabel placed second in the Palo Alto Weekly 34th Annual Short Story Contest, for the Young Adult category. Here’s the link to her winning story: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/short_story/short_story_34/ya2.php

Isabel’s an Anteater!

Isabel’s committed to attend University of California, Irvine for Dance!  We’re excited to become an Anteater family.  Zot, Zot, Zot!

Not an April Fools joke

Kids’ schools closed for rest of school year:  https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/04/01/santa-clara-county-schools-will-not-reopen-this-academic-year

Henry’s year in AAA Hockey

Last year’s hockey season was a busy one with travel across the US and even up to Quebec for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Quebec International Pee-Wee Tournament.

It was a trying experience in net, however, with a tough regular season schedule against two top clubs, the LA Jr Kings and the Anaheim Jr Ducks. The regular season itself was only 6 games, with more time spent traveling to tournaments, but those 6 games were busy for the Jr Sharks Pee-Wee AAA’s only net minder, who faced almost half of the shots — 217 of 462 — taken in the entire season by all teams combined!

Source: CAHA.com

Onward and upward: Henry’s skating out this season with the Jr Sharks as a first year Bantam A, and is looking forward to a fun NorCal travel hockey season.

Isabel in the Student Paper

Not sure how I missed this, but Isabel had a great article about her in the high school paper last year.  Oh well.  As Ferris Bueller says, “Life moves pretty fast…”

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The Harding Name

Not sure how much weight to give these Naming sites, like the HouseofNames.com… love the fact that the Hardings go back to 1600’s Boston, that there was a Buster Harding who was a Jazz musician, and of course that we have a former US President named Harding (who’s no longer the worst… we’re #39!)  Troubled that almost all the ‘Historic events for the Harding Family’ involved ship sinkings, including the Titanic.  Probably just as well that I no longer own a boat.