Tire & Weather Friday Evening

Friday night was the Bear's first regular game of the season. Our fortunes did not smile on us as the band traveled to Menard. We got as far as Santa Anna when the smaller bus with the junior and senior band girls and the cheerleaders on it developed a large bulge in the right inside back tire. So we unloaded that bus into the bigger one that was newer and the athletics students used without any problems last year.

We got about a mile outside of Brady and our right inside tire blew out. It was quite exciting and scary for those driving the suburban and the band trailer behind us. Mr. Camacho, our superintendent, knows the band director in Mason. He called him and he said that he would get a bus to us. He had a friend in Brady. Since Brady was closer, the Brady bus came out. It was a brand new Mercedes with good working air conditioning.

That gets us back on the road about 7:30 PM when the game was starting. We get most of the way to Brady and we run into a storm with lots of rain and lightning. We drive through it and it seems that it will pass and we won't have any more problems.

As soon as the band got there and settled, they played one song, It began to rain again. Then, lightning strikes causing a lightning delay in the game. Our football team had held them 0-0 until the rain started. The Baird fans were offered a rock building to wait. After about 45 minutes and the band had eaten and the game was back on. The woodwinds put their horns up because the rain continued the rest of the game. Menard pulled ahead and kept going.

Our sophomore quarterback was hurt by the end of the game and Robert has a pulled hamstring. Hopefully, they will be able to work back to full strength in a couple of weeks.

It was 3 AM by the time we got home to Putnam after unloading the trailer and laying everything out to dry. The Bears play Lubbock Christian High School in Cisco this Saturday morning at 10 AM. We don't have any pictures because of the rain. We'll try again next week.

We have not stopped moving since I got up about 7:30 AM Saturday morning. We do have school tomorrow. We opted for a three-day-weekend in October instead of having one so close to when school starts without another student holiday until Thanksgiving.

Stay tuned! More to come.

Take care,
Brad