Totally missed the boat on this one

[susandennis]

Eons ago ljtourist asked me if I had any interest in going to Oregon to see the eclipse. I had so little interest, I didn't even ask any questions.

But, this morning, I discovered the viewing brass ring... a special morning minor league eclipse baseball game. The Volcanos (a Class A farm team for the San Francisco Giants) in Kaiser, OR are doing it up completely right. And I am so sorry to be missing it. I could have gone to Portland and gone to the fabric shop I've been wanting to visit forever. There's another shop there, too, that I want to take in and an art gallery that I love to visit. And then I could have wandered down to Kaiser and seen morning eclipse baseball.

The reality is that likely I would have had to have nailed plans for this long before even Frank mentioned it and the roads would be crowded and I hate driving and 56 other reasons why not going was fine but still... minor league eclipse baseball?! wow.

My ear was so much better this morning. Not even tender at all. I dried it out carefully after my swim and used the drops. I think maybe i have dodged a bullet here.

My arm, however, is exhausted after all that stress knitting of yesterday. I used an ice pack on it last night but, I'm afraid, when I pick up the needles today, it will scream at me.

I think I'm going to make nightgown today. I have an idea in mind and a knit sheet to use. I don't normally wear nightgowns but nothing says I can't start. I don't plan on making a pattern, just kind of free-handing the cut out and seat-of-the-pants-ing the sew up. Worst case, I ruin a not even very perfectly fine used sheet that I paid $1.50 for.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Glad your ear is better, keep treating it kindly and hopefully it won't return

[michelle stevens hamann (from livejournal.com)]

My husband and kids went to the Salem Keizer game. It took them 6.5 hours to drive home to Vancouver - normally like a 60-90 minute drive - and I-5 north to Seattle looked like a parking lot about an hour after they got home. Pretty sure you made the right call, not going to the game.

[susandennis]

Oh I would have absolutely gotten a hotel room for both Sunday and Monday nights and just made a day+ of it. I'm sorry to hear their trip was so frustrating. But, was the game fun??

[michelle stevens hamann (from livejournal.com)]

I think the game was your standard short-season A game, which made it much less exciting than the eclipse. They had NASA scientist there, who talked during a lot of the pregame time, and in the breaks leading up the eclipse, which he said was really awesome. The had seats on the grass berm right behind the Hops dugout (which is actually our home team), and I think had a lot of fun with the guys during the eclipse delay.

[susandennis]

I love minor league baseball best of all. You see the best and the worst (sometimes in the same play) and there is never a shortage of shinanigans.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Come to Oregon & meet my cats! :)