411 The Walters Bunch

L and T had a snowball fight....kind of. More like an ice patty fight!  This year when we heard that snow and ice was expected, we reacted the way every other Texan reacted after last year's debacle. We made all the preparations beforehand as if the electricity was going to be out for days again. We filled up about 40 gallons of fresh water jugs, brought the camping toilet in from the shed (remember no electric means we have NO water AND NO sewage), bought extra gas for the generator (which would not start in the freezing weather last year), brought in the propane stove, and preemptively put the chickens in the garage. It was horrible last year to discover we had needed to have done all these things beforehand, but that we hadn't. This year we had power the entire time the weather was bad and it made all the difference in the world. We could snuggle, watch movies, make hot chocolate, and have hot showers. All the extra time spent preparing for the worst wasn't needed, but I

T's spot is always under the basket. We actually played 2 different tournaments in 4 days! The first tournament that T had was in Sherman and the coaches tried to rest T a lot so he would not be too tired for our other tournament. He is by far the top scorer on the team and generally averages at least 50% of the over all points in the game. This game he only played about 9 minutes total, but scored 24 points! The coaches kind of send him in to run up the score and then the secondaries come out and get to play a little. There have been a few games that the secondaries don't get to play at all and the starters play the whole time. I feel bad for them and their parents to do all that driving and then not even get to play! Even though we won that game, we let our opponent advance in our place because the next round interfered with a bigger tournament we had in Mansfield.  Fun fact: Mansfield is about 80 miles from my house and we had an 8 am game AFTER having a 6:00pm game the nigh