Tuesday Evening Musings

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In case you didn’t notice, I took yesterday off. It sort of morphed into taking today off, too. Unintentional, I was just busy watching hurricane coverage. I still am (you can’t believe how those palm trees are bending over in Key West, and Mallory Square is flooded ), but I thought I should at least wave to everyone. ::waving:: I went for a lovely walk yesterday in a local park. I saw some Orthodox Jews performing tashlikh, which is a Rosh Hashanah tradition of symbolically throwing your sins into the water to get rid of them. That has a nice symbolism for Christians, too. Micah 7:19 says, “ He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.” The photo attached is of the ducks in Brown Park. They love to hang out by the bridge, because they know someone will come by with bird seed for them. I expect no pity or sympathy, but I had to buy new jeans. My old ones are way too baggy now. I’m watching the end of the Cardinals/Brewers game. The Cardinals can win the NL central with a win tonight. The Cubs (who I’ve rooted for when they acted like they wanted to compete) have guaranteed themselves third place in the NL central, while the Reds and Pirates chase each other in the race to 100 losses and last place. Oh, what has become of the Big Red Machine of my youth. Also in baseball, Aaron Judge is getting walked so much lately that I’d hate to be his Fitbit. He had four walks tonight. I don’t know why pitchers don’t want to pitch to a guy with 60 home runs. Seriously! How else can you cement your place in history than to give up a big home run? I personally remember Jack Billingham because he was a pitcher for the Big Red Machine in the 70s. Everybody else remembers him because he gave up Hank Aaron’s 714th home run. Ditto Al Downing of the Dodgers, who gave up #715 to Aaron. Oh, well. The Cards have clinched with their victory over the Brewers. Sorry, Uke (Bob Uecker is the Brewers’ radio announcer). I’ll be looking for a new countdown theme. Meanwhile, y’all have a great evening! And do remember those folks in Florida. They’ve been through this a million times, but I don’t think it ever gets easier to endure a hurricane.