Archive for October 17th, 2009

Sounders – Playoffs!

October 17, 2009

****WARNING – SPORTS BLOG*****

The Seattle Sounders beat the Kansas City Wizards tonight 3-2.
That is enough to put them into the MLS playoffs, in their first year in the league.

I did not think they controlled the game as much as I would have liked, but when they got behind in the score, they wasted no time in coming back to tie, and then take the lead.

More fun – and the reason for the post, is that we are watching, and at the end of the game they pan to the Sounder’s fans behind the goal. And there is Rey, amoung the other die-hards. He was easily recognized thanks to Pooh’s creation (his hat). Saw him several times.

Spoke to him afterwards and he said his feet were freezing. He was going to enjoy a bagel while he tried to warm his feet in the car before heading back to St. Louis.

Woo-Hoo. Carl & I have tickets to the MLS final championship game in late November. [It is in Seattle regardless of what teams are in the final.] It would be great if Seattle could make it all the way.

Baseball note: Angels & Yankees are currently tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 9th in new Yankee stadium. I know my dad is pulling for the Yankees, but I find myself routing for the Angels in this one. [Carl is routing for 7 games.]

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RAIN

October 17, 2009

Thought of the moment. It was raining – hard. Hard enough to stop and watch. For several minutes. And go look at our 10 yards of mud dirt waiting to be spread about – another day. And now, just a minute later, the sun is shining. Must be a heck of a rainbow somewhere.

But earlier this day we held, or helped put on, a 50th birthday party for a good friend. This was held at a batting cage, with other more than 40’s in attendance to remember that age is only a number. A little pizza, a little cake, and voila – a party.

Earlier than that we were puttering around, dishes, starting split pea soup to put the ham bone to good use. That was until two things conspired to stop the soup. 1) Realizing I could not fit the suggested cooking time in before said 50th party. 2) Power outage. We never lose power at our house. Well, almost never. There was the time the crow committed suicide on our transformer. But the rain was only lightly falling, and the wind was almost negligible. Still 1-2 hours without power.

Bad news from the north. Ashlan has the flu. Send your good vibes her way.

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