Weekend Report by the numbers

• Number of soccer tournaments in Snohomish in the rain: 1. Number of games played in the rain: 2. Total number of hours driven in the rain: approximately 5. Score at the end of regulation time in the first game: 3 - 3. Number of scoreless overtime periods: 2. Number of goals shot by our team in the shoot-out: 5; number of goals shot by the other team in the shoot-out: 4. Number of incredibly happy girls on our team: 14.
• Number of birthdays celebrated: 1. Margaritas consumed: 10. Glasses of wine consumed: unknown. Pieces of homemade blueberry pie eaten: 10. Homemade rhubarb coffee cakes consumed: 1. (editor's note: Not my birthday, and there were 6 adults at the party, so it wasn't just me doing all that consuming. I'm just sayin.)
• Segments of fence painted in the back yard after returning home: 3. Number of children painting: 2. Hours spent: nearly 2. Number of times parents were asked whether children could be done painting: 0, after parents explained that requests to stop before the agreed-upon number of segments were finished would be treated as requests to not be allowed to participate in after-school sports for the final week of school.
• Number of mountains to be climbed at the end of July: 1 -- Mt. Rainier. Number of backpacks pulled down from the attic: 2. Pounds of training weight loaded in my backpack: 25. Number of training hikes this weekend: 0. No comment from the margaritas.

And how was your weekend?