one beautiful spring day after another

OUCH.

We're a day or so past mid-April but it would be foolish to think that we should expect something other than mid-December weather.  Maybe it's all our fault here on Laurel Avenue.  Miz Susan and I had just been saying that we needed some rain to green things up and wash away the evidence that several dozen sparrows had spent the winter hanging out in the shrubbery at the end of our back deck.  Whatever this mess is, it should do the trick.  And it will also allow me to postpone getting the car washed for another week or so.  It's bad enough that the Holiday Station can get away with charging us $3.47 a gallon for gas; should it really be allowed to soak us another eight bucks for a quickie carwash?  Which doesn't even include vacuuming the floor mats.  We've got to go down to one end or the other of 7th Street and pay $20 or more for the super deluxe car wash to get the wash with the floor mats extravagance.  Which doesn't even include a tip.  This middle class life style just ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Target Field in all its early season glory.  Really.  It's out there somewhere.

The Twins game got called off on Wednesday and I can't hardly wait to get to the sports section to see what the official cause will be listed as.  Rained out?  Snowed out?  Wintry mixed out?  Whatever it was, it would have been a bad night to be either standing around in the outfield trying to tell the difference between fly balls and baseball-sized snowflakes or sitting in some unprotected seat down the first base line. Either one of those would have carried a high risk of hypothermia.

For once, the baseball gods were smiling on the Twins.  Wednesday's postponement set them up for a day-night doubleheader against the hated Blue Jays.  The Jays usually play at Target Field as if they have the home field advantage.  But yesterday, the Twins won both games including a night cap that could have been mistaken for a 9th-grade scrubs game.  The Twins parlayed at least four walks, three wild pitches and a lone hit (I think) to score six times in the eighth to climb to the 5th best record in the American League.  They might not lose again all year long.