Eric Bailey's

Click on the above link and check out some songs by Richard Pepper. Two of his songs were tops on the ranking this week.

This is my first post from my disorganized place in Kenora. We arrived last night. This morning I plugged in the internet stuff and it seemed to work quite easily (imagine that!). I got the boys lunches made, and then I started trying to wake them up for school. I then called for Erica's help. I have a slight disability right now. I strained my knee and I can't walk on it.

The story goes, I was playing football - what else is new, huh, an injury from football, who would have guessed - and we were winning. I was not getting a lot of passes or a lot of looks. I did have their best player covering me, but the quarterback knows him and would like to beat him anyway. I worked hard to get to a couple of deep passes, but one I knocked out of a defenders hands, and the other one some how, I did not quite bring in, I should have though. Mostly I was catching some short passes, and not a lot of those this game (he wasn't throwing as much to me as usual). In the third quarter, he threw an out to me, and I ran hard to catch it, and I had only time for one step before going out of bounds, so I planted my right foot hard and tried to turn all my momentum up field. I immediately fell to the ground, because my knee did not hold. I felt the two separate pieces that join together in the knee move differently. As I am lying on the ground yelling people suddenly realize that something is wrong and come check it out. After a few minutes of yelling the pain seemed to subside enough to let our team paramedic look at things. As they were looking at my knee I finally managed to ask, "Did I score?" "Yes Eric" was the reply. I was finished for the game, but I scored the TD. At the time it put us up 2 TDs, but a few tries later they drove for a TD and we were then only up by one TD - mine. The score card did I saw didn't show it, but I thought we scored one more TD later in the game (one guy had 3 TD's then if I am right). It was one of our better games and we ended this my final season as champions. Unfortunately I am not yet celebrating. Instead I am dragging boxes around the house, and finding ways to move things while I am sitting or hobbling on crutches. Also I get help from Greg whenever I ask.

The boys have been helping me ice my knee, and getting me things when I ask. I sure hope that it becomes useable soon, I am getting tired of moving on crutches already, especially when there are things I want to get done.

If you get a chance, visit my cousin's blog for a tribute to her child who passed away. timeasthis.blogspot.com

Also pray for Kristian as he was still in the hospital last I heard (pics can be seen at reppepper.blogspot.com)