The house that built me and Gold Cup Soccer

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I've kept up running and steps mostly for the last couple weeks.  I missed a few June 6-23  at 9Round due to having a mole removed from my back.  The extra week was due to being out of town back home in Murphy for the kids to go to Folk School.  It was good to visit with family and friends.

Before we left last Saturday we took the drone out to my mom's house and the barn by grandfather built.

The House that built me!




This barn didn't have enclosed walls or the rolling doors when I was a kid.  I have so many memories from the barn.  We briefly met the man that now owns it.  He seemed nice and was pretty patient given we were definitely trespassing! 



This side was where we fed the cows the lean too and trough are long gone.  The manure here was always at least ankle deep back then.  



 Sunday afternoon we went to the Gold Cup games in Charlotte again.  Below is a picture of us from July 2016 at an ICC game and then this past weekend.  Amazing the difference in myself and my son.  He's basically grown at this point, maybe he's got a few more inches to grow over the next year.  Got a chance at the game to meet the founding CAD, which is cool because CAD has been a great outlet for me and our family over the years.



 He still likes his crazy hair!

We have a 5k race coming up this weekend, I'm not sure I'll make a PR or my under 35 min goal, but I hope to endure at 7:30 am sat race in the 80s!  Maybe it'll just be High 70s.  And I'm sure next week the kids will want to swim Tubbs Inlet at low tide!  Seems to be an annual thing now.

Next committed update 7/10

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