Wednesday

So I missed the All Star game telecast last night.  The media stories today seemed to give it favorable reviews.  Mariano Rivera, the Yankee reliever who was given the game's MVP award, has been a class act for a long time.  He gets the MVP award for throwing 16 pitches in a three-up, three-down appearance in the eight inning.  Basically, a lifetime achievement award.  He will be in the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.  No quarrel from LtPC on that one.

Hard to believe with so much rain here this Spring and early Summer, but we're kinda dry right now.  The parking portion of my front yard (the grass between the sidewalk and the street) is showing some brown-ness, and I see splotches of browning grass off the fairways at the Duck Creek and Palmer Hills golf courses that I pass daily on my way to the office.  The field crops are not showing stress at this point, but they'll need rain within the next week or two.  Feast and famine.

The red-winged blackbirds are in attack-mode again on our country cycling roads.  It must be nesting season.  I've been dive-bombed each of the last two days by the same bird on Forest Grove road at 0530. This is a new spot for the attacks from prior years.  It seems like a single biker is the prime target.  For whatever reason, they don't go after us when @bcbison and I are together.  Don't fool with Mother Nature.

(It looks like I have a fully functional Blogger program today.  No clue on the correction that seems to have occurred.)

My favorite "hot days of Summer" drink is a rum/lemonade icy. 

Today is definitely a day for an icy.  (I seem to recall telling the story here on the blog from our Chicago days when the rum/lemonade icy was the drink of choice when we packed for Wrigley.  Can you believe that in the late '70's they allowed you to take your own coolers into the stadium?  With a couple of cans of beer also in the cooler?  Heck, today, you can't even carry an open beer on the street around the ballpark.)

All for now.  Stay cool and hydrated!

BCOT