Sylvia's Scenario

If I'm not posting in awhile it's because something is happening in my life to cause writer's block. This month, my writer's block was called October baseball.  Our team, the Seattle Mariners, made it to the MLB playoffs and kept winning.  They've made it to the playoffs before, exactly six times since their inaugural year of 1977, but this year they kept winning. This year they made it to game 7 of the ALCS (American League Championship Series) after winning the ALDS (American League Division Series) against Detroit.  Not only did we make it to game 7, they were ahead in the game through seven innings before they lost to the Toronto Blue Jays.  That's the closest they have ever gotten to the World Series...within 3 innings.  Agonizing, to say the least.   Playoff games are not like regular season games at all.  They're much more intense and there is lot more strategy applied by the coaches like the way they use the pitchers, how they arrange the batti...

This year was a busy Father's Day but that's okay because the past few months have been rather relaxing for us.  I'm not going to say "boring" because the older I get, the more I like those kind of days and "boring" connotes negativity which isn't how it’s been at all.  I guess if we're  not traveling or having out-of-town visitors coming to our house, then our typical days are just "relaxing" and there's nothing wrong with that.  But this past weekend, my brother and wife came to Seattle so I decided to plan a family barbecue while they were here which ended up being on Father’s Day. After dealing with covid the past four years, I feel like I am getting back into the hang of hosting large gatherings again. I admit that I did get out of practice there for awhile.  The end of March was our Mariner Ticket Party and we'd only been home a few days from a visit to Washington D.C. but we threw that one together pretty well and everyon...

We returned from Europe and it's been nonstop since.  Fortunately, for whatever reason, we did not have jet lag on this trip so we were able to hit the ground running as soon as we returned.  Nick came home with us from Spain because he had planned to attend the MLB All-Star game since Seattle hosted this year.   It's a huge event in town that lasted five days. But before all that began, he headed to Oregon to attend a golf tournament with eight other college baseball friends for four days of marathon golfing.  (118 holes of golf, to be exact). They are a pretty tight group of friends from their college baseball days together at George Fox University in Oregon.   They ended up being a Hall of Fame group of guys, actually.  They were inducted into their college's Hall of Fame in 2021, a very prestigious award.  Nick returned from Oregon just in time to celebrate his birthday, the first of many in July for our family.  Sometimes it gets hard fitting...