Then teh storm hit, Matt Gamel, Prince Fielders replacement, BAM, season ending injury. This is bad because the Brewers have absolutely no one that can play first base on a regular basis, nobody! Then BAM, lightning, Carlos Gomez, one of the fastest players and one of the best center fielders in MLB pulls a hamstring (or something like that). BUT WAIT, HAIL, now one of the top five fielding short stops in the Majors rips his knee and is probably out for the season so the guy that WAS filling in at 1B needs to play shortstop. And then last years MVP Ryan Braun tweaks his achilles heel and those things take forever to heal. NEXT?
OH WAIT! Cory Hart is playing with only half a brain. The guy is not in the game at all. I've seen four bone head blunders lately. Running the base blunders, fielding blunders, missing signs at the plate!!
The only good thing is that it's early May with 140 games to play!
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Things I did not know. After watching Survivor last week I find out that 22 year old's think that 28 year old's are so over the hill old that they can not possibly win a physical challenge one on one. I had never considered a 28 year old to be "old".
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Things I did not know. When you need to have CV joints replaced on your car you probably need to have your tie rods also replaced.
OK - for anybody that does not know. A CV joint on your car is like a knee joint. It is a constant velocity joint and is part of a drive shaft, the shaft that attaches to a car's transmission at one end and the wheel at the other. They are only in the front of the car. Perhaps you have heard of a universal joint. Those were in the back of the car when cars had back wheel drives. But with front wheel drive cars manufacturers had a new problem, as they had to turn the tires as well as go over bumps.
CV joints just wear out, get dry like human knees. My Subaru has 17,000 miles and I guess that is a lot. The hardware does not cost much of installation is . . . .a bitch. $500. When you see a car beside the road with a tire that fell off? CV joint.
BUT WAIT!!!
If you replace the CV Joints you PROBABLY need to replace the tie rods. The tie rods basically turn the wheels when you turn the steering wheel. Pretty important. IF the CV joints wore out the tie rods probably are really loose and need to be replaced. In a nut shell they transfer and control motion between two components. BAM $300!! And don't forget to have your tires aligned!
LOL - I was told so many times to MAKE SURE I have my wheels aligned after all that. I asked about that at the garage and was told that is like asking to make sure when you buy a new tire and have them installed to make sure THERE IS AIR IN THE TIRE!
So when you cars wheels makes a noise when you turn a corner. It's going to cost you some money sooner or later and oi you wait too long your wheel will fall off OR when you turn your steering wheel, nothing will happen! Get it fixed or just always go straight!
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Things I did not know. Elwood had his SuperBowl this weekend and we took our trip to The Flower Factory. He's been saving all year for this trip, had his program (catalog) all marked up with what he was going to buy and had spent the last 400 hours of his life referencing, cross referencing, double checking, looking for alternatives and had his game plan AND game face on!
I on the other hand said - "if I see something I like I might pick it up on the spur of the moment" which made him turn white. It's how I roll.
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| The Flower Factory |
The problem I have with The Flower Factory is that everything is labeled with their Latin names and no photos. If you go there you must know what you want. Their catalog is extensive with zero photos. It's basically like the stock section of the Wall Street Journal but with flowers instead of stocks.
The nice thing about FF is that it's very natural and everything labeled!
WELL, all was going well until we were looking for "Lilium 'Lollipop' (Asiatic)". Yes , you must say it correctly. We find the wall of Lilium and come to the EMPTY bins of the Lollipop! OH KNOW!!!! THE DAY IS RUINED!!!! all hell breaks loose. THIS IS A TRAVESTY!! LORD JESUS WHY OF YOU FORSAKEN US!! SOMEONE IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS!!! He throws his catalog down in disgust and screams THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!! (with four explanation marks).
I talk him off the edge of the cliff and when I say talk I more or less just kicked him off!
He finds something else but there is a cloud over his head. We talk to the people at checkout and a woman takes us aside and say "Check out Kopke's" which is just north of The FF. We go there and it's like a super WalMart for annuals with a small Perennial section AND they have Lilium 'Lollipop' (Asiatic). . . . . .for $17.50!! sigh!!
He buys one and we get lost trying to find our way to pay for anything. Seriously, we did. We ended up in some area that had EMPLOYEES ONLY signs and had to reverse and after 20 minutes and asking people we found where the counter was. All was well.
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Columbus had 1.63 inches of rain yesterday with 1.13 inches coming down in 25 minutes and flooding back yards.
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I'm not seeing any of my liberal friends boasting about the big spike in tourism for Wisconsin and how Wisconsin has moved from something like 40th to 20th in a recent magazine for small business coming here!
Walker can not take credit for any of this (but he did) of course just like he should not be blamed for Wisconsin losing jobs. Things like job creation can not be measured after 1 year or even 4 years (like Obama). Look back 10 years from now to see how things are going. This is a global economy and 1 and 4 years is very very short term thinking. There are other things you can blame governmental officials on but the economy is not one of them.
With that said - check out this video!!
http://youtu.be/s49HkpsbHmM
OPEN YOUR LEGS AND LET THE GOVERNMENT IN!
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OK - why don't female softball players wear baseball hats!! Do they think they are better then males? "We don't need no baseball hat? It's just a crutch? Come on guys, don't be sun wimps!" Do female baseball players spit? Spitting is part of the game, it softens the infield! Keeps the dust down!
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OH - another photo from Lake Mills. This is Mill Pond (seems every town has a Mill Pond).
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| Mill Pond - Lake Mills |
Have a great Monday - going to the Brewer game tomorrow! Whoo Hoo! or what's left of the Brewers!
Rod
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