What a great day I/we had yesterday. The weather was perfect for a walk with the fur-children to the library where we returned a book and picked up several more, including my latest non-fiction book, Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. While I've only just begun, the book holds the promise of being a confirmation of some things that I already believed. But that's politics, and I try to avoid that subject in my blog unless, and until, I am unable to avoid my own Collision Course.
Yeah, I know there is a song lyric in that last paragraph, one from an old Carpenters song, but I don't always have to include a YouTube™ reference to that lyric. Wait, of course I've decided that I do, so here it is, from the Carpenters. The song is one that many people of our generation, and even some in the current generation, include in their wedding music.
I didn't realize that the song was originally part of a commercial song written by music composer, Roger Nichols, and sung by lyricist, Paul Williams, for a commercial for Crocker National Bank. That was before it was recorded by the Carpenters in 1970, becoming their biggest hit. This version includes Karen Carpenter on vocals and behind the drum kit that she loved to play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPD4LtA1vo
We have a current temperature of 47° under partly-cloudy skies. I thought about taking our camera, coupled with my new telephoto lens, out to take some pix of the moon through the trees earlier when I let Ginger out about 4:30 a.m. But until I am more comfortable with the extra weight of the camera and that lens, I did the most prudent thing I could do, I left the camera and the lens safely in the bag. Maybe tomorrow night.
Once the sun rises today @ 8:08 a.m., the NWS has forecast that today's high temperature will reach 49° under partly-cloudy skies before the sun sets tonight @ 6:49 p.m. It is not surprising, as it happens every year, but the days are drawing to a close earlier and earlier as we approach winter. Don't forget, that according to the NWS, there is still that strong chance of a mild, less snowy winter, due to that El Niño effect that I mentioned the other day. We shall see.
I'm hoping for that lower snow total mount, as it looks like I'll be having that rotator-cuff surgery on my left-shoulder. I won't know for sure until the doctor has had a chance to peruse the results of the MRI I'll be having next Monday, but I know what the last ache I had in my right-shoulder felt like, so...
Speaking of the camera and the missing tripod part, while I was outside doing some of those mundane but necessary chores, Mary found the missing piece. Turns out that she had to remember where she had had to stash some of the loose things from our china cabinet prior to the carpet installation a few weeks ago. Once she did that, she was able to go right to the hassock in the downstairs bedroom where she had stashed those loose items. I have now attached that part to the lens mount in our camera bag so it won't get misplaced again. I also filled five bags with yard-waste.
We did get to Ace hardware™ to take advantage of their sale on yard-waste bags. While I may now have more bags than I or John will need, they don't spoil sitting in the garage waiting to be filled. Yes, those bags are available everywhere this time of year, with prices varying from the sale price of $1.49 @ Ace Hardware™ for 5, to $3..99 for 5 at the grocery store. So, while I won't generally stand in line to give money, I will stand in line to take advantage of a sale, especially when that line was only myself and another woman who bought just enough bags and a new rake to match her evening ambition.
Today, I will finally get to that apple pie baking and applesauce making that has been on hold for a few days. Since I was outdoors yesterday doing some of those outdoor chores things, I had no chance to get to the baking. However, I did heed Mary's advice and I did not "Overdo" those chores. I am learning, albeit slowly.
For those of you who are into baseball, the first game of the 2018 World Series™ between the Dodgers and my beloved Red Sox is tonight @ 8:09 p.m. in historic Fenway Park in Boston. Game 2 is tomorrow night, "Same Bat time, same Bat Station", before the series moves to La La Land for game 3 on Friday also @ 8:09 p.m. Just because, here is another YouTube™ snippet, featuring TVs Adam West, dressed as a police officer, not Batman, intoning the famous words, "Same Bat Time, Same Bat Station", in an obvious send up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alQ0zUjLLmg
That looks like enough for today and yesterday and today. Ciao.
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