Mudding and Tee ball and Oxiclean!

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. ~Author Unknown



Interesting Weekend...Busy Weekend...Until last night it had been 10 days since I/we had been home at night. I spent my Saturday evening judging a Beauty Pageant...excuse me a Scholarship Pageant. It was really a lot of fun. I was the only non-professional judge there. I have a background in fashion, apparel and textile design, I guess that is why I was chosen. I would like to do more of the pageant judging. One thing I found interesting...We were given a resume with the contestants activities, achievement, honors, etc for the interview section. More than one girl wrote mudding as an activity. What? These lovely young ladies...are doing what...



This is what I found...Thanks to Wiki...

"Mud bogging, also known as mud racing, mud running, mud drags, or simply mudding; is a form of off-road motorsport popular in Canada and the United States in which the goal is to drive a vehicle through a pit of mud of a set length. Winners are determined by the distance traveled through the pit or, if several vehicles are able to travel the entire length, the time taken to traverse the pit. Typically, vehicles competing in mud bogs are four-wheel drives."



I was afraid of that... Why on earth would these young ladies entered in a beauty pageant want me to think of them in a mud pit? Immediately that's how I saw them, covered head to toe in mud, beautiful eyes sparkling and brilliant white teeth glowing. What happened to beauty queen contestants longing for world peace? Nope now they are all in mud pit in their jacked up 4X4's.



I am generalizing there, but it still makes me laugh. Most of the girls were polite, well groomed, politely polished, well spoken and talented. It takes tons of guts to get out there and put yourself out like that. I admire them for that. The top three contestants left with over 5000 dollars in college scholarships. It was a great experience! And I brought something back for my classes to learn. "When filling out resumes, always make sure the event or activity makes you shine in the best light."



On the tee ball home front... My little boy's team is the youngest of all 7 teams. In this league returning members are placed on the same team as the year before. So many signed up this year that a new team was formed, my sons team. Therefore their are no returning members. So it is made up of all 4 and 5 year olds. Most of the other team members are already 6 years old. I'm not sure this is the best way to go about choosing up teams, but we love it and we are going with it. His team is just figuring out the basics...where is first base? ... How to put your glove on your hand, not on your head...Where the bathrooms are two innings into the game... you know the important stuff...Other teams are using strategy and getting double plays. So needless to say we have not won a game. We did have one tie, it was so darn cold half the kids were crying and the game was called at a tie 20 minutes into it. It is a learning experience and they all seem to love it. and HEHEHEH next year we will be the team to beat because we have the bigger/older/2nd year players.



BTW: OXICLEAN



This stuff works. I have always been apprehensive of purchasing the stuff. BUY IT! Here are a couple of the nonscientific test I have run on Oxiclean.



1. A Easter egg purple size 4T Polo (yes, little horse and everything) shirt: a little person used a red pen as a back scratcher and somehow red scribbles appeared in a...lets call it, a 2"x5" area. I used hottest tap water I could, put it in a large bowl, don't fill with water too high...when you add the Oxyiclean to the hot water it bubbles...a lot. Put the shirt in and left it to soak for about 30 minutes. After the 30 minutes most all of the ink was gone. I used an old toothbrush I have around for cleaning odd things and scrubbed the remaining ink. Most of the remaining came out. I left it to soak again for about 15 minutes. When I returned it was completely gone. I washed in the washing machine as usual.



2. Grass stains on baseball pants: I boiled water in a large pot about half full with water. Turned off the heat and added the Oxiclean. It bubbled again...a lot. As soon as I added the badly grass stained pants there were green particles left on the top of the bubbles. It worked that fast. Leave the pants to soak for about 30 minutes, scrub with brush, leave to soak, scrubb with brush...repeat till clean. I think I scrubbed and soaked three times. Most of it came out the first time. Then I washed as normal and the pants were good as new.



I have also used the Oxiclean just in the washing machine and mild grass stains came out, as well.



Have a great Wednesday...Enjoy...TK