Party and Baseball

I'm really behind in my posting. Back to last Sunday. This was Oscar night. Ellen Edwards had us to her house for an Oscar party. Kent, Carolin, Mary, Ellen, Sue and I were at the party. There was enough food to feed about 100 people. Sue bought tiaras for all the girls to wear. We all voted on the winners. I think Sue did best. It was a good evening and I think everyone was happy with the winners. Thank you Ellen for a great evening and good food.

Now on to Monday. The party Monday was for the arrival of Karl and Peggy Stahl. They have been south for a week or so in Parker and Yuma Arizona. They got in about noon Monday. Peggy came right over so she and Sue could walk Charlie. They do this back home a lot. I took Karl for a tour of Happy Trails in the golf car. Monday evening we all met at Mary's house for a barbecue. Kent got pressed into cooking duty. A job he does very well,, I might add. We all had a good visit. It was good to see Karl and Peggy again. Thank you Mary for another good time and more good food.

Mary had to show us here new bed and the ladder for Dan. There was a story behind the ladder but I forgot what it was. I think that is most likely good.

Tuesday I went up to the Happy Trails Wood Shop. This is a large building with just about any tool you need for woodworking. It cost $25.00 a year for membership. I had to go thru a hour and a half orientation. Now I get my pass card to use the place. I have a thing I want to build to carry our electric oven we bought to use outside. I'll show pictures when I get it done. The rest of the day we just sat around because the weather was not too good.

Wednesday was baseball. We had bought tickets to the Mariners Texas Ranger game a couple weeks ago. We had been lucky and got the last two seats right behind the Mariners dug out. We were two rows up.

As we were going to the game, Peggy called and said that they were going to go also. We knew that there would be lots of seats available, but figured that the closer ones would be gone. So we get to the ball park and run in to Peggy right away. She says that she had sent Karl to get tickets. Well Karl heads for the ticket office. Some lady grabs him on the way and asks if he is looking for tickets. Well Yea !!. She takes him by the arm over to her husband that was trying to get rid of two tickets. Karl buys them not knowing where the were going to sit. Turns out Our tickets were section 109, row E, seats 13 and 14. Karl are section 109, Row G, seats 13 and 14. Yep right behind us. Two rows back.

It was a good game Ichiro lead off with a hit and scored a bit later. I got a picture of him while he was hanging out at 3 base. Griffy was not there. This game was at the stadium in Surprise which is the home of the Texas Rangers and Kansas City. The Mariners play out of Peoria. We picked this game because it was close to home. It is a pretty new stadium that appears to seat maybe 20,000. They only had about 6000 yesterday.

As I said our seats were right behind the dug out. We were right in the area between the ball players you see standing in the dug out. Good seats really. No foul balls our way. Which was good as were were close. The game ended with the Mariners winning 6-3.

After the game we all came back here and Peggy and Sue washed some of their cloths while Karl and I went to the store and chatted. I cooked spaghetti for dinner. We all chatted after dinner while Sue did the dishes. Peggy offered to help but our kitchen is kind of a one person place.

Today (Thursday) I;m going golfing with the guys from the ranch. Sue will be home playing in her Happy Aquarium. She and Charlie are currently at the dog park,