Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Minnies Last Ball Of The Season!

Janet says my ball seeking skills have dropped off dramatically, and I suppose she is correct.   We like to go to Fire Mans Fire Persons Park at the end of our street, where there are two baseball diamonds.  The upper diamond is for skilled teenagers who are really excellent.  The bottom diamond is for small lame ass children who couldn't throw or hit a baseball if their lives depended on it.  The good news - apparently their ball budget is unlimited as they are not that difficult to find.  Last year, I found more than 50 balls!  Janet dutifully collects them from me and returns them to the park.

This year, the lame ass children must have a newly acquired skill set (or I am getting old!) as I only found about 15 balls all season!  Likely this is last ball of the year!
You can easily tell when September is over - dogs abound on Willows Beach!
Ken and Karen are away in Africa, so Janet sent them an update as to what was going on in their Lulie Street 'hood, which is one block over from our 'hood.

Phil has a new listing on Lulie:
Old house on Lulie torn down and new one going up:

Cops for Cancer!  This is a huge fund raiser every year that Oak Bay High is involved in.
This year at Janet's volunteer job, they had Project Connect.  It is a huge project, offering all kinds of services for attendees - Chiro, Doctor, ID replacement, Portraits, Free reading glasses, Massage, BBQ and so much more!  This is a small sample of the items you could collect in the Chapel for your personal use.
Huge excitement next door!
Janet knew the baby was a boy, prior to delivery, but that is all the info they have.  Young women today don't know what it was like to deliver babies back in the '70's.  You could stay in the hospital for a whole week and didn't have to bust your ass home to care for the newborn and all the other little rug rats that resided there!  Back in the day, you weren't even required to "bond" with your baby all day and night long - they carted them off to the nursery so you could rest and watch the teeny tiny TV attached to the ceiling all day long.  Of course, if your Doctor was a hard ass, there wasn't any medication involved, but it seemed a small price to pay for a free 7 day staycation!
Apparently, Turkey Dins is living the high life in PDX.  Bronwyn and Mike say he and Watty Man kick each others butt 24/7.

Me, I am going to say Good Night!





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