Monday, October 27, 2014

For What It's Worth                                                                                      64 Days and Counting

Baseball in October

Last night the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals 5-0 to move to a 3-2 lead in the Major League Baseball World Series Finals.  The outstanding pitching from Madison Bumgarner was an historical event as he shutout the Royals throwing 84 strikes in 117 total pitches, the first shutout in the World Series Final since 2003.  The series moves back to Kansas City for the remainder of the Fall Classic series and Game 6 is scheduled for Tuesday night at 5PM Pacific time.  You know where we will be at game time! :)

Autumn Colors

Living in California near the beach does has it disadvantages such as no color changing of leaves into their autumn splendor.  You need to go inland such as to the foothills just before you get into the mountains to see indigenous trees such as oak, maple and the such.  It is a nice excuse to get out for a day trip to enjoy the scenery.  It usually is a annual trek for us but I am doubting it happening this year due to certain financial constraints.  Maybe in early December we can have a short road trip out that way just to enjoy the autumn colors for the day.  We are hoping to be in New England next year at this time to see what all the commotion is about regarding Vermont and the autumn color show.  I am dreading the automobile gridlock that I have heard so much about.

Halloween

Since moving into my current flat (apartment) 2 years ago, I have never been home on Halloween to hand out candy.  When we had our house in El Segundo we looked forward to doing so because all of the kids were always so polite.  They all would say thank you as there parents waited anxiously at the sidewalk for their little ghouls and goblins to do their routine of saying, “Trick or Treat” and hold out their little plastic Jack-O-Lanterns.  Sometimes the little ones would freeze at the door and not say a thing, so I would just stand there and look at them and tell them, “What do you say?”  If they were still frozen in their tracks I would tell them, “You’re supposed to say Trick or Treat.  You could always tell the rookies looking a bit lost for words but they were all so cute, the little ones especially were adorable.  I don’t anticipate being home this year again since it falls on a Friday this year.  I did think about getting Snoopy a little prison outfit for the little fugitive, but she does not go for too much of the costume wearing.  She just isn’t that kind of pooch, but you never know?  :)

Famous Quotes and Words of Wisdom

My boss hates it when I shorten his name to Dick,

Especially when his name is Joe.

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Snoopy asks that you please… “Bark Less and Wag More!”

Until next time… Be Good!

- cb