Apples, Football, and Movies
The year is rolling along, and here we are at our apples, football, and movies issue again.
I will sadly have to miss the Lewistown Homecoming football game against West Hancock High School this weekend. I have a performance of Vintage Hitchcock that night at Richmond Hill Players.
Normally I would have kept my schedule clear for the fall. But I auditioned for Vintage Hitchcock on February 8th, 2020. It was to have been the July show for that Richmond Hill season. As it was, it was preempted by COVID. I found myself spending that summer at home, watching movies and picking up hours at Arc where I could.
Now we have an embarrassment of riches in 2022. Theatre is back with a vengeance. Football is back with a vengeance. The Handel Oratorio Society working with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra is back with a vengeance.
And everything is converging upon itself in this weekend of Sept. 29th, Sept. 30th, Oct. 1, and Oct. 2!
The Lewistown football team has entered a CO-OP with Cuba High School and Valley High School to form the LVC Miners. We are 0-5 so far for this season, starting with a 26-6 loss to Havana. But QB for the Miners, Blayne Clary, did punch in a beautiful touchdown with about six minutes to go in the first half. This brought the scoe, at that poit, to 6-6. It is the one time this season that we have at least tied with an opponent in a varsity game. So for a moment, at least, it seemed like it was anyone's game to lose. It was followed by a 34-8 loss to Carthage. But Blayne Clary and Ethan Shields completed some beautiful passes and slant plays on a touchdown drive between 6:53 and about 6:00 in the second quarter. And we got the two point conversion in as well. Next, Lewistown sustained a 54-6 loss to Rushville, a 38-12 loss to South Fulton, and most recently, a 52-6 loss to Princeville.
I want to talk for a moment about the Rushville game. How come they didn't get flags for false starts when they kept flinching at their kickoff returns? They'd gear up to kick off, and then they'd halt. It was as if to trip us up. It was as if the refs were in on the joke. And it was as if they were letting it slide.
And it was as if every tiny movement a Lewistown lineman made when we assembled at the line of scrimmage was analyzed by the refs, and they were only too happy to throw out the yellow flags whensoever they caught us moving the least bit before the snap and hike.
Phil has had a bit more luck with the University of Iowa. His team has had victories against South Dakota State University and Rutgers. Yeah, I'll allow the team did suffer a defeat at the hands of Iowa State University. But hey, they showed up ready to play.
As for my nephew, Mason, I watched his team log a victory against Independence, Iowa in a Week 0 match up (they had a bi week on week 1, as Alleman backed out of playing against Assumption.) Assumption won, 26-7. Mason is third string. So he didn't see any playing time in this particular match up. But he was dressed and on the sidelines, waiting to go. At the point when I arrived at the stadium, I believe Assumption was up about 14-7. And they scored two touchdowns more pretty late in the contest. I think they attempted to make two point conversions but couldn't get them in. That being said, by the final minutes of the game, once the Assumption Knights had fairly well iced the victory, Mason still wasn't put in as a Wide Receiver. That being said, the starting wide receiver for Assumption is very good, and is signed to a D-1 school, or so I am told.
I am told Mason was out on the field in the last game, when the team faced DeWitt Central. I am happy that Mason got to play, because I assume that it was Homecoming. And I'm told he got a tackle.
Now onto apples.
Sara got me some big round apples from Aldi. They're not as juicy as the smaller Aldi apples I got over the summer. So maybe the dry spell has affected the new crop of apples. I got some excellent apples, however, when I made my last trip to the Hy Vee in Rock Island. I went to get a flu-shot upon taking a sick day off from school, and using the rest of the day to attend the funeral for Rich Petkunas at Our Lady of Victory in Bettendorf. Those apples were awesome. I think they were honeycrisp, but they may have been gala. At some point, I made my way to the Hy Vee in Davenport on one of the days I was checking in on Alaina and Mason, and they had a good bumper crop of apples too.
I also picked up some apples at the County Markets in Lewistown and in Havana. They are fine. They do get oxidated very fast, so they're not quite as crispy as I expected. But again, we could stand for a little more rain.
As for true orchard apples, I am planning to take my parents and Jen on a mystery trip to Tanner's Orchard, not far outside of Speer, Illinois. This would be either Saturday, October 22nd, or Saturday, November 5th.
I believe that I am getting my induction into the Alleman High School Drama Club Hall of Fame at some point over the weekend of November 12th. So that weekend would be out for such a trip.
If everything goes according to plan, the trip to Tanner's Orchard would be the date of the long awaited, long anticipated release of Greatest Hits Volume 48. I have a lot of work to do between now and then.
Now, here are the movies that I am looking forward to seeing coming up through the fall and early winter of 2022:
The Fabelmans
Devotion (different from the Italian series Devotion: A Story of Love and Desire on Netflix, this one is about black pilots in the Korean War with Jonathan Majors)
Avatar: The Way of Water
Triangle of Sadness
Causeway
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story
Thirteen Lives (already released on Amazon, I will get around to this one)
Bros
The Woman King
The Banshees of Inisherin
Pinnocchio
Amsterdam
The Gray Man (already released on Netflix, but want to see it)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hocus Pocus 2
I will sadly have to miss the Lewistown Homecoming football game against West Hancock High School this weekend. I have a performance of Vintage Hitchcock that night at Richmond Hill Players.
Normally I would have kept my schedule clear for the fall. But I auditioned for Vintage Hitchcock on February 8th, 2020. It was to have been the July show for that Richmond Hill season. As it was, it was preempted by COVID. I found myself spending that summer at home, watching movies and picking up hours at Arc where I could.
Now we have an embarrassment of riches in 2022. Theatre is back with a vengeance. Football is back with a vengeance. The Handel Oratorio Society working with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra is back with a vengeance.
And everything is converging upon itself in this weekend of Sept. 29th, Sept. 30th, Oct. 1, and Oct. 2!
The Lewistown football team has entered a CO-OP with Cuba High School and Valley High School to form the LVC Miners. We are 0-5 so far for this season, starting with a 26-6 loss to Havana. But QB for the Miners, Blayne Clary, did punch in a beautiful touchdown with about six minutes to go in the first half. This brought the scoe, at that poit, to 6-6. It is the one time this season that we have at least tied with an opponent in a varsity game. So for a moment, at least, it seemed like it was anyone's game to lose. It was followed by a 34-8 loss to Carthage. But Blayne Clary and Ethan Shields completed some beautiful passes and slant plays on a touchdown drive between 6:53 and about 6:00 in the second quarter. And we got the two point conversion in as well. Next, Lewistown sustained a 54-6 loss to Rushville, a 38-12 loss to South Fulton, and most recently, a 52-6 loss to Princeville.
I want to talk for a moment about the Rushville game. How come they didn't get flags for false starts when they kept flinching at their kickoff returns? They'd gear up to kick off, and then they'd halt. It was as if to trip us up. It was as if the refs were in on the joke. And it was as if they were letting it slide.
And it was as if every tiny movement a Lewistown lineman made when we assembled at the line of scrimmage was analyzed by the refs, and they were only too happy to throw out the yellow flags whensoever they caught us moving the least bit before the snap and hike.
Phil has had a bit more luck with the University of Iowa. His team has had victories against South Dakota State University and Rutgers. Yeah, I'll allow the team did suffer a defeat at the hands of Iowa State University. But hey, they showed up ready to play.
As for my nephew, Mason, I watched his team log a victory against Independence, Iowa in a Week 0 match up (they had a bi week on week 1, as Alleman backed out of playing against Assumption.) Assumption won, 26-7. Mason is third string. So he didn't see any playing time in this particular match up. But he was dressed and on the sidelines, waiting to go. At the point when I arrived at the stadium, I believe Assumption was up about 14-7. And they scored two touchdowns more pretty late in the contest. I think they attempted to make two point conversions but couldn't get them in. That being said, by the final minutes of the game, once the Assumption Knights had fairly well iced the victory, Mason still wasn't put in as a Wide Receiver. That being said, the starting wide receiver for Assumption is very good, and is signed to a D-1 school, or so I am told.
I am told Mason was out on the field in the last game, when the team faced DeWitt Central. I am happy that Mason got to play, because I assume that it was Homecoming. And I'm told he got a tackle.
Now onto apples.
Sara got me some big round apples from Aldi. They're not as juicy as the smaller Aldi apples I got over the summer. So maybe the dry spell has affected the new crop of apples. I got some excellent apples, however, when I made my last trip to the Hy Vee in Rock Island. I went to get a flu-shot upon taking a sick day off from school, and using the rest of the day to attend the funeral for Rich Petkunas at Our Lady of Victory in Bettendorf. Those apples were awesome. I think they were honeycrisp, but they may have been gala. At some point, I made my way to the Hy Vee in Davenport on one of the days I was checking in on Alaina and Mason, and they had a good bumper crop of apples too.
I also picked up some apples at the County Markets in Lewistown and in Havana. They are fine. They do get oxidated very fast, so they're not quite as crispy as I expected. But again, we could stand for a little more rain.
As for true orchard apples, I am planning to take my parents and Jen on a mystery trip to Tanner's Orchard, not far outside of Speer, Illinois. This would be either Saturday, October 22nd, or Saturday, November 5th.
I believe that I am getting my induction into the Alleman High School Drama Club Hall of Fame at some point over the weekend of November 12th. So that weekend would be out for such a trip.
If everything goes according to plan, the trip to Tanner's Orchard would be the date of the long awaited, long anticipated release of Greatest Hits Volume 48. I have a lot of work to do between now and then.
Now, here are the movies that I am looking forward to seeing coming up through the fall and early winter of 2022:
The Fabelmans
Devotion (different from the Italian series Devotion: A Story of Love and Desire on Netflix, this one is about black pilots in the Korean War with Jonathan Majors)
Avatar: The Way of Water
Triangle of Sadness
Causeway
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story
Thirteen Lives (already released on Amazon, I will get around to this one)
Bros
The Woman King
The Banshees of Inisherin
Pinnocchio
Amsterdam
The Gray Man (already released on Netflix, but want to see it)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hocus Pocus 2