Filling Our Time

Sunday evening we had another delicious meal at the Bier House and were so pleased to see Ted's brother Dan from Key West along with his son Patrick who was deployed yesterday to Iraq. He is the fourth young man from our families to be serving and we are so proud of them. God's speed Nick, Stephen, Matt and Patrick.

Early Monday Ted took the truck to the airport and flew to Orlando. I was pretty much stuck here for the day and cleaned some cabinets, read my book, watched TV and played on my computer. He had his business dinner then spent the night with Kristin. They had a good visit and he was able to do some things around the house for her that required lifting. He arrived home Tuesday afternoon and we eventually did our laundry before dinner.

Another nephew, Sean from Phoenix, was in town for a conference and asked if we all had time to come downtown for a quick dinner before he caught his flight home. Peg, Kath, Dan, Ted and I met him across from The Great American Ball Park at the Holy Grail for dinner. It was a nice but quick visit and we were so glad to see him. We walked over to the outside of the ball park and took a few photos. When we were kids we would pay a quarter to sit in the bleachers at old Crosley Field. Then it gave way to Riverfront Stadium. Most recently Paul Brown Stadium was built on the riverfront for the Bengals and the Great American Ball Park was built for the Reds. Then Peg took us on a tour of all our old haunts from years gone by. It was very enjoyable.

When we arrived home our NY neighbors had a fire going behind the trailers on the banks of the lake and we joined them. They had been to the Jimmy Buffett concert at Riverbend the night before and had lots of stories to tell. They were interested in our life in Texas. We had to get up early and they were pulling out at 6 a.m. so we called it a night around 11.

The next day we went with Karen & Ron to the facility where her surgery was performed. Everything went well and when she arrived home she wanted to take a nap so we left. After lunch, we went to Sam's to stock up on goetta, Skyline chili and turtle soup. Woo Hoo! I''m set for a couple of months now.

Here are some photos outside Cincinnati's new Great American Ball Park.



Theodore Bernard "Big Klu" Kluszewski (September 10, 1924 – March 29, 1988) was a Major League first baseman from 1947 through 1961.


Joseph Henry Nuxhall (July 30, 1928 – November 15, 2007) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, mostly for the Cincinnati Reds. Immediately after retiring as a player, he became a radio broadcaster for the Reds from 1967 through 2004, and continued part-time up until his death in 2007.



“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind, then the manager is a success.” ~ Sparky Anderson