Hoping I'm not popping any bubbles but summer is on the way out. Who's got what going on before then?
28 thoughts on “August 11, 2018: Post Solstice”
Happy Great Taste of the Midwest day! I've got about four hours left of coherencey.
I've been told my niece won "Tastiest in Iowa" for her tomato at the state fair.
Noice!
How’s the day going? Tasty?
It went quite tasty. This year's theme was apparently sours, so it was a bit of a palette wrecking experience.
Today's edition of "Minor Details" will be the last for about ten days or so. I will be leaving town Sunday evening and will not be back until the following Monday evening. My plan is not to try to make up the games I'll miss, but to simply do another "Where They Stand" post and then resume daily reports. The birthday list should appear every day, unless I get the dreaded "missed schedule". If someone would like to fill in reporting on the Twins' minor league teams in my absence, you have my blessing.
Summer is already at least part-way over for us, since our now-2nd-grader has already been back to school for a week. We did a last hurrah at the beach and Legoland last weekend.
Preschooler has a bit more time; he starts a week from Monday, and I start the week after that.
Of course there is. I make sure to get my Mauer card at the local card shop each year.
Saw the MLB article on the best cards from 50's till Oughts. 2 Twin in the bag (Carew, Pucks). How can they ignore the profile of the MLB (Harms), and TonyO? Answer - stuff in 5 Mantles.
Company outing coming up on Wednesday afternoon: Twins game!
I just had a “...big ole pot a coffee and ain’t got no cream” moment. Couple of beautiful brats laid out on fresh buns w/ ketchup, mustard, sauerkraut and deli-style relish. Apply condiments in that order. Get to opening the still mostly full jar of relish and find mold. Damn. Still good, but coulda been great.
*Sees the mention of ketchup, shakes head, tsk-tsks.*
I didn't know you were from chicago, doc.
Ketchup. No mustard unless it's horseradish or very, very brown.
I'm a simple man and just go with spicy brown and sauerkraut. But then, I never don't have spicy brown mustard on hand. I've got a shelf in my fridge dedicated to various mustards.
An additional new garage door opener note: besides the Wi-Fi control, the Homelink button on the Accord overhead actually programmed correctly as well, so don't need the control there anymore.
I guess it's better to "hit" dingers than to "have" dingers, which is what I heard originally. I was trying to figure out what disease "dingers" was.
For those of you on the bookface, see my share if Brad Zellar's post. Baseball books and memorabilia on sale in Stillwater. Including a copy of Danny Thompson's book, special for Bootsy!
Happy Great Taste of the Midwest day! I've got about four hours left of coherencey.
I've been told my niece won "Tastiest in Iowa" for her tomato at the state fair.
Noice!
How’s the day going? Tasty?
It went quite tasty. This year's theme was apparently sours, so it was a bit of a palette wrecking experience.
Today's edition of "Minor Details" will be the last for about ten days or so. I will be leaving town Sunday evening and will not be back until the following Monday evening. My plan is not to try to make up the games I'll miss, but to simply do another "Where They Stand" post and then resume daily reports. The birthday list should appear every day, unless I get the dreaded "missed schedule". If someone would like to fill in reporting on the Twins' minor league teams in my absence, you have my blessing.
Godspeed.
Minor league pitcher has a two-pitch inning.
Summer is already at least part-way over for us, since our now-2nd-grader has already been back to school for a week. We did a last hurrah at the beach and Legoland last weekend.
Preschooler has a bit more time; he starts a week from Monday, and I start the week after that.
There's a National Baseball Card Day???
Of course there is. I make sure to get my Mauer card at the local card shop each year.
Saw the MLB article on the best cards from 50's till Oughts. 2 Twin in the bag (Carew, Pucks). How can they ignore the profile of the MLB (Harms), and TonyO? Answer - stuff in 5 Mantles.
Also Mantle, the Sachin Tendulkar of baseball. At least it wasn't Cap'n O.
My top 10 Topps list would have included this.
Company outing coming up on Wednesday afternoon: Twins game!
I just had a “...big ole pot a coffee and ain’t got no cream” moment. Couple of beautiful brats laid out on fresh buns w/ ketchup, mustard, sauerkraut and deli-style relish. Apply condiments in that order. Get to opening the still mostly full jar of relish and find mold. Damn. Still good, but coulda been great.
*Sees the mention of ketchup, shakes head, tsk-tsks.*
I didn't know you were from chicago, doc.
Ketchup. No mustard unless it's horseradish or very, very brown.
Ooh yeah, I do like some spicy brown mustard too.
It’s a bratwurst man! Start slinging opinions about what goes on it and what doesn’t and I think to myself, “Why in the h-e-double-hockey-sticks would I want to limit the choices !?!” I’m an equal opportunity topper. If all I have Plochmans, that’s fine. Spicy brown mustard is great too. I do like a bit of ketchup (but never catsup ...) Give me the full slate of Red Hot excellence too, that s finer still: “chopped white onions, bright green sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices or wedges, pickled sport peppers and a dash of celery salt, ” yup.
I'm a simple man and just go with spicy brown and sauerkraut. But then, I never don't have spicy brown mustard on hand. I've got a shelf in my fridge dedicated to various mustards.
An additional new garage door opener note: besides the Wi-Fi control, the Homelink button on the Accord overhead actually programmed correctly as well, so don't need the control there anymore.
Alfred, I am with you, my man.
I guess it's better to "hit" dingers than to "have" dingers, which is what I heard originally. I was trying to figure out what disease "dingers" was.
For those of you on the bookface, see my share if Brad Zellar's post. Baseball books and memorabilia on sale in Stillwater. Including a copy of Danny Thompson's book, special for Bootsy!
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Some pretty terroble baserunning on display there, but yeah, that was a toss.