Marshall Invitational
On Saturday, the Marshall varsity volleyball team hosted an invitational tournament. Thinking that it might take all day and cut into the Wisconsin football game or the Brewers second last regular season game, I was a little worried. Thankfully, there were only 5 teams and everybody played everybody in a two-game match. After a mere [...]
Heads up
I drive to Belleville, WI for the Marshall vs. Belleville volleyball match last night (thank you to Jill, the voice on our Garmin Nuvi, for taking me right to the front door). I park my vehicle near a football field and track and field area. I get out and see this sign. I MUST take [...]
Varsity volleyball action
In addition to her current stint on JV, Hannah has been fortunate enough to suit up a few times for the Marshall Varsity volleyball team. In case it’s been a while since you’ve seen high school volleyball, the Varsity teams play 4-game matches. She has seen minimal time with the regular team (usually in game [...]
One year of posts
The start of the school year has kept us in a constant state of hyper-activity. I’ve been so busy that I completely missed the one-year anniversary of this blog which happened the other day. Hip hip, hooray! Yes, it’s true. On September 14, 2007, the first post went up with absolutely NO fanfare. Some stats [...]
JV volleyball action
Now that the HD video is flowing, I get to sit through lots of volleyball action multiple times: once in real time as a fan in the stands, and once back on the computer during editing. Sitting through the clips the second time is where the fun is…NOT! You know those videos where the serve [...]
Where’s the video?
Believe me, I’m working on it. My new HD camera has been causing me fits as I try to get the video off and into an editor. The format of the file is relatively new so there aren’t many options for converting it into something usable. I think I finally found something that will work, [...]
First day of school, 2008
Tuesday was the first day of school for those in the area. As is our first day tradition, we took a picture of the schoolgirls on the porch of the house. I even got up on a ladder this year so the photos would be taken at eye level. (There were complaints in the past [...]












