Congratulations to Clay who earned his Green Belt in karate last week-end! I'm really proud of you, Clay! If I ever need a bodyguard, I know who to call. Here's the latest from Tampa, thanks to Rick:

Clay earned his third stripe as a Gold Belt last week and was eligible to graduate to Green Belt this past Saturday. He did great during his trials and graduation. Now as a Green Belt, he'll be sparring with "light" contact.
Cooper was "Super Dooper" on the mound again last night. He entered last night's game against the 2nd place Giants in the second inning. The starting pitcher struggled and gave up six runs in the first inning. Cooper pitched 4 and 1/3 innings before reaching the maximum Little League pitch count limit of 75 pitches in the 6th (and final) inning. When he left the game, his team (the Devil Rays) had come back to go ahead 15-8. The relief pitcher got the last two outs after walking the bases loaded. Cooper got the Win with 9 Ks, 1 BB, Faced 17 batters, and gave up only 1 Earned Run. That was the last regular season game for the Devil Rays who finished with an 8-10 record. The LL tournament starts this coming weekend.

The puppies born last Wednesday continue to get bigger and Ginny (originally called Fluffy) is still being bottle fed but seems to be doing fine - just small (7.5 ounces). Hagrid is still the "Big One" weighing in at 19 ounces! The vet looked them all over yesterday and gave them all good grades. :-)

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Mary Ann's band (Mosaic) spent 5 hours in the recording studio last night and recorded 2 songs. They need to record 2 more songs for the demo disc to be complete and ready for distribution. They have booked their first engagement with "Proverbs 31 Woman" conference which is going to be here in Tampa on Oct. 6th (Mary Ann's birthday)!