Reunited, progressive, and undefeated

Two weeks after the saga began, I was finally reunited with my shotgun, the first time I held it in my hands in fifteen months. It's clearly been through a lot in that time. There were a number of knicks and scrapes on the wood that weren't there before. AND, it had clearly been fired since it was taken from me. When I first arrived to pick it up, I was quite weary about walking out of building and in front of the OKC PD HQ with a firearm in plain view. I inquired about that and felt better about it when they assured me they'd wrap it up. And wrap it up they did. In butcher-paper-like wrapping. So instead of walking around with a shotgun in plain view, I looked like I was walking around with a 2-foot sub. Perhaps just as bad an idea in front of the PD HQ.


After I picked up the recovered firearm, I went to the remainder of Shelby's fencing practice, where Shelby won all three of her practice bouts. She's making much improvement and getting more aggressive, which is good.


Speaking of improvement, the girls got their progress reports today. Shelby had a C, but that's an improvement over last quarter's 2 Cs and a D. Darby managed to bring her math grade up to an A, the first time it has been better than a B in a couple grade-levels, though she dropped her English grade down from an A to a B. So the trick is, can I get her English grade back up to an A while keeping the math an A?