The 2021 Garden - Phase 2

The pepper seeds are "in" (first of three) and the tomatoes will be set up as soon as more potting mix is delivered.

Baseball Trivia - 2

 

Q: What Hall-of-Famer pitcher had the record for most wins by a left-hander in the National League until Warren Spahn broke it, AND was the first player to die between his election and his induction into the Hall?

A: Eppa Rixey

Close Call # 1 (and now #2)

 

A couple of weeks, and a couple of posts, ago I had a new snow blower delivered to my home.  I was very excited about it and was watching for the delivery truck on the day of its scheduled arrival.  I also wanted to give the driver a hand getting it in the garage since I knew it weighed 34 pounds.

The truck arrived and I opened up the garage door and guided the carrier and my new toy into the garage.  As is usually done, I stood in the garage and made small talk with the driver.  Halfway thru our conversation I suddenly realized that neither one of us was wearing a mask and I was only about 4-5 feet away.  Eventually he left.

I rushed upstairs and took a long and thorough shower.  Then I went for a run and exhaled more than I normally do on my runs.  Then I returned home and began the count of 14 days awaiting possible symptons.  Well, today was day 15 so either I did not get the rona or I did and I am asymptomatic.

Yesterday, my cable box shut down and it was determined that a technician would need to come out and look at the problem.  The only other option would be to go without TV for maybe the rest of the year or however long this pandemic will last.  I don't watch a lot of TV but the Super Bowl is a week away.  So I made the appointment for this morning to have someone stop by.

The technician arrived around 8:15 and he was masked.  I was double masked with gloves.  He would be the first person to set foot in my house in the past 10 months.  Being a hermit has kept me alive and I hoped that this was not going to be a mistake.  He was here for about 90 minutes, half inside and half out.  New cables needed to be installed and updated, entering the house and the ones up high out by the street.  I was amazed as I watched him working out by the street.  His ladder was not set against the telephone pole but rather hooked onto an existing wire going from my pole to another.  And it must have been strong enough because he was a big fellow.  And to top it off he was working up there in 14 degrees and 20 mph winds!!

Anyway, the TV/cable is working again with a brand new remote control.  But the new box have the capability to connect to my DVR player.  Oh, well, I never watched that many DVRs anyway.

Is the rona in the house?  A new count to 14 begins!

Baseball Trivia - 1

I've decided to post a weekly baseball trivia question until I get bored of it or run out of questions.  You are welcome to try and come up with the answer, look it up on Google, or do both, or neither.  It's up to you.  On Wednesdays I will post the answer.

Q: What Hall-of-Famer is the only pitcher to defeat the Braves in all three of the franchise's locations: Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta?

A: Robin Roberts

The 2021 Garden - Phase 1

The seeds arrived today!!  This year's garden will feature, as always, sweet peppers.  This year there will be four varieties: Big Baddy, California Wonder, Thunderbolt, and Emerald Giant.  There will be one tomato: Bushsteak (a small bush type plant which is preferable to the tall staked plants).

Cucumbers (Marketmore 76) again will reside on the side of the house, and for the first time (not tyme) I will be growing an herb.  In small planters on my patio I will have basil (Emerald Towers).

Next up--planting in seed trays.  Stay tuned.

Oh well.

 

"A man who forgot his password to access his Bitcoin could lose $ 220 million" (from the Entrepreneur)

   

This is why I write down every password, and I have MANY, and store them in a file in my desk!

Bring On The Snow!

I bought a new snow blower today.  The old one was getting on in years and wasn't reliable when it was time to start up.  This proved to be very frustrating when the snow was nearly a foot and I realized that I would have to shovel once again.

This time I bought an electric snow blower.  A few years ago I bought an electric roto-tiller for my garden.  It is made by SunJoe.  I will take a picture of it and add it to this post when I can (it currently is dismantled and stored away).  The snow blower I bought today is by SnoJoe.  If it performs anything like the tiller, I can't wait for the snow to cover my driveway!

And it even has a light!

Tommy Lasorda R.I.P.

 I hope St. Peter doesn't ask Tommy what his opinion of Kingman's performance is!  

How To PROPERLY Repel A Traitorous Mob On Steps

      

     

   

With long rifles and Cossacks.

    

Repelling Traitors

2020 Running Wrap-up

 Personal

   
Stats for the year:

    

1,114.476 Total Miles
294 Days Running including a streak of 212 Days
Average/Day = 3.7907
   
The total amount of miles and the streak are both new O.M.P.B.s.

    

Racing

  
All road races in New Jersey, and most likely everywhere else, were canceled in 2020 because of CoVid.  So since 2019 was marked by injuries, my last 5K was 8/2/18.  Hopefully road races will return sometime in 2021.
  

Coaching

  
No need to repeat everything that has been posted in the Middle and Upper School X-C blogs.  The link for these blogs can be found in the upper right hand corner.

2020 Books

 The total for the year (29) could have been 1 or 2 more but since early December, the library leasing system here seems to have shut down.  I have been waiting for a book since December 9th and it has a status of "Active".  I got tired of waiting and requested a second book and have been waiting 8 days.  I'm bored beyond bored now and have just requested a third book.  Here are the books read for 2020.

    

American Dirt Cummins, Jeanine

American Sherlock Dawson, Kate Winkler

Animal Keepers, The (RR) Behnke, Donn

Barnum: An American Life Wilson, Robert

Catcher In the Rye, The (RR) Salinger, J.D.

City of Girls Gilbert, Elizabeth

Dear Edward Napolitano, Ann

Disney’s Land Snow, Richard

Fleishman Is In Trouble  Brodesser-Akner, Taffy

Franny and Zooey Salinger, J.D.

German House, The Hess, Annette

Lake of the Ozarks Geist, Bill

Long Bright River Moore, Liz

Long Petal of the Sea, A Allende, Isabel

Lon Chaney: The Man Behind The Thousand Faces

                                        Blake, Michael

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen Palmer, Dexter

Nine Stories Salinger, J.D.

One Little Secret Holahan, Cate

One Night At the Lake Chase, Bethany

Pops DeLong, Thomas

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters… Salinger, J.D.

Secrets We Kept, The Prescott, Lara

Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball Frommer, Harvey

Soft Place To Land, A White, Susan Rebecca

“The Giants Win The Pennant!” Thomson, Bobby

Tony’s Wife Trigiani, Adriana

Tough Luck Rosen, R.D.

We Are All Good People Here White, Susan Rebecca

Where the Crawdads Sing Owens, Delia