26 thoughts on “May 29, 2017: Memorial Day”

  2. Two of my favorite baseball names right now are Buck Farmer and Jesus Sucre (in translation).

  3. Joe Mauer's numbers for May are reminiscent of his All-Star years, but he sucked so bad in April his overall numbers still seem fairly unimpressive. I hope this is a sign of good things to come, though. It would be great to see Joe perform up to his contract.

    1. Split G PA BA OBP SLG OPS
      April/March 21 85 .225 .271 .275 .546
      May 20 86 .347 .453 .556 1.009

  4. My house/yard finally has an informal yet pretentious name, the kind I've been hoping to arrive at for years.
    My family estate is "Mittenwood". Named by the third child because she stuck her mitten on a stick last winter. It's stuck.

    2. I call my yard the DMZ because I have a back fence neighbor who never mows and we call his yard Vietnam. Creeping Charlie incursions across the border are a big problem.

            1. Speaking of hops... I'm going to have a bumper crop this year. I just strung my lines to grow the bines horizontally down the side of my fence. I'll report on the beer after the growing season ends.

      3. Yes, frustrating to put time and energy into a nice green lawn then have neighbors who don't care. I have it coming at me on all 3 sides and Creeping Charlie in the mix. To top it off, we had an empty lot behind us that allowed me to watch golfers tee off on a par 5 of the local course. Manufactured home just got dropped off last week on that lot. So now, my morning coffee view if far diminished.

        1. I keep my lawn mowed and dandelions picked, but I also won't put chemicals on my lawn to get rid of every single non-grass living thing. I have a neighbor who literally mows his lawn twice per week even if it hasn't rained and every blade of grass looks like a work of art. I don't feel bad if a clover or two from my lawn gets over there.

        2. That was one thing when we were looking at houses: will those open spaces be developed? We bought a place with a park on one side and a small city lot for a storm sewer retention pond on another. I'm satisfied that those will never be built up.

            1. TBH, I don't know if either of those is exactly accurate.
              "Retention Pond sensu lato"

              1. I was (incorrectly) corrected on this once in the past; most sub(urban) areas require these only to temporarily detain excess water, not to retain it for a length of time

                1. Well, it's never been dry since we've been here, but it has been very low.
                  Even then, it was maybe 2 ft deep at the deepest spot. Hard to be sure where the suspended organic matter ends and the sediment begins.

  6. back from an early matinee of Snatched. Entertaining (adult) summer flick. Not as funny as Trainwreck, but we (the Boy, Mrs and me) all had a good time.

      1. I should mention that I'm the fool in the foolproof...

        I've been smoking meats and salmons (and the occasional whitefish) for years, but ... I'm kind of ashamed to admit ... I don't really know how to 'grill' fish. I've screwed it up so many times that I've almost given up.

        1. I had a large number of good-enough-but-not-that-great results before I really got it down.

          I think tonight was about the best cooked rockfish I've ever made. Just a little crispy on the edges, but still soft in the middle. I think the difference this time was that I added a bit of melted butter, garlic powder, and lemon juice on them right before putting them on the grill (rather than my usual olive oil only), and was paying more attention than usual, so that I didn't over cook it and lose a bunch stuck to the grill. Cooking temps worked well, too. I preheated the (gas) grill on high first to get the grate super hot, then cooked on low once I put the fish on; that also seems to have helped.

          I think I let it sit at room temperature longer than usual this time, too, though that was more because I got distracted than any sort of plan.

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