After enjoying the James Patterson golf novel Miracle on the 17th Green, I needed another book to read. I placed on hold the sequel on hold (Miracle at St. Andrews) and picked out a book at sounded familiar – Sundays at Tiffanys. Guess I got it confused with Breakfast at Tiffanys. Didn’t realize Sundays at Tiffanys was a “romantic novel” – but it’s great, about a girl that reunites with her childhood imaginary friend in adulthood. Loving the premise. In the book there are many of these people/angels/beings whose job it is to serve as imaginary friends until the child’s 9th birthday. Soon the child completely forgets about the imaginary friend and moves on. The novel was made into a Lifetime movie, starring Mia Sovino, with a slightly different ending.
James Patterson recently partnered with Bill Clinton on the novel “The President is Missing.” I have that one on hold as well.
Read a Sports Illustrated article about tennis player Renee Richards, now 84 years old. She can’t play tennis any more but plays golf instead. Has shot her age a couple of times. When she joined the pro tennis tour she was a 43 year old playing against 20 year olds. Before her surgery in high school Richards also played baseball and football. The Yankees wanted to sign Richards, who went to an Ivy League school instead, and became a noted eye surgeon.
Sunday after the on field parade we went back underneath the stadium and the Tomahawk Team (the girls who toss the t-shirts) were there ready to go out. Some parents had their kids pose for pictures with them. I figured I better not take pictures of the girls.
Left work at 5:30 Thursday and drove my old route through Alpharetta and Crabapple past my kids’ old Living Science school, then on through downtown Woodstock to deliver a bobblehead. Was almost 7:30 by the time I got home. C and M were making Mexican, using fresh tomatoes picked earlier in the day at M’s farm. Grilled chicken, homemade refried beans, rice, guacamole, cheese, homemade salsa – even homemade corm tortillas.
Helped clean up the kitchen, took out the trash to the street, watered my grass seedlings, packaged an eBay shipment, took Barney outside. Not much else.
No one is eating the homemade ice cream from the fourth of July, so I am slowly eating it. Got a little strawberry left and a huge Braves cup full of peach.
The son of Ceil’s friend Dawn stopped by to visit with W&MC. Kirk is a professor at Virgina Tech, working on his PHD (I think that’s right).
Six hours at a water park is pretty good. He must’ve packed some snacks or something. When we used to go to those water parks I loved them and wanted to stay as long as possible to get my money’s worth. Didn’t leave there early. Tried to go when it opened before the crowds got too thick. That’s a place like putt putt where it can get real crowded and you have to wait in line more than actually riding the rides.
WADE BOGGS [SABR Bio] is the first player in history to have four straight 200-hit seasons in which he also got walked 100 times in each of those years - 200H + 100BB = 1986-89 Only he and Ty Cobb have pitched in a major league game before getting 3,000 hits and then also pitched after hitting that milestone. He once said of his teammates, “I didn't know if the guys on the team wanted to hug me or slug me.” The occasion of his remark was the longest documented professional baseball game ever between the Rochester Red Wings and Boggs’s Pawtucket Red Sox played over 18/19-Apr-1981. It lasted 33 innings, 8 hours and 25 minutes. His sentiment about his teammates came about when Boggs drove in the tying run in the bottom of the 21st inning to prolong the proceedings. Because of Boggs’s highly-disciplined, insanely regimented pre-game chicken meal, he was eventually nicknamed “Chicken Man”. During that time, SDP had a guy, Ted Giannoulas, as their semi-official mascot. He was their chicken man as he dressed in an elaborate chicken costume for games and even community activities.
First pitched 3,000th H Pitched again
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