Cottonwood

Baby sitting rat dogs is the mission.  Kadizzle has been assigned to watch the three rat dogs of his sister while she attends a wedding in Chicago.  Last night Kadizzle learned on PBS there are 2,000 Coyotes living in Chicago.  Apparently dogs are taking over the world. No doubt there are about as many dogs as people in this country.  Kadizzle likes dogs and hates cats,  rat dogs fall somewhere in between.  The damn things bark and are suitable for hunting nothing by insects.

Yesterday Kadizzle went with brother in law Ned to watch a girls basketball game.  Sister Patty has taken Sidney under her wing to help her through her athletic career and school.  Sidney is the new Arizona State Tia Quon Do champion.  However,  Sidney and her team have a long way to go in basketball.  Until yesterday it never occurred to Kadizzle that he rarely sees young girls of the 7th, and 8th grade age.  One in awhile you might spot some wandering in a mall, but Kadizzle has not been in a junior high basketball court for a thousand years.  On one end of the court were the little cheerleaders jumping around proudly cheering on their team.  In the stands was a mixture of everyone.  The opponent school had a large population of Apache, and some other tribe.

The game itself was like watching atoms move with no apparent organization.  Passes were made to invisible people,  and most of the shooting resembled what you might get using a shot gun.  Two girls on Sidney's team were little super charged bumble bees that were fun to watch, but they were so small they could not make much happen.  All things considered it was fun to watch.  Totally unpredictable and the girls played pretty rough at times.   The most common play seemed to be a mugging.   Someone would catch a pass and stand there clueless.  Meanwhile they would be swarmed by the other team that would try to rip the ball from their hands.  Prior to the game Ned said Sidney would score all the points for her team.  Ned was not far wrong.  Sidney's team lost by a score of 20 to 4 and Sidney scored three of the four points.   Had Sidney's team just continuously shot the ball at random they would have done better.   It seems that basketball at this level is mostly a game of random events and that the more you put the ball in the air the more likely it is to go through that steel hoop.