Chris
really surprised me yesterday. She told
me that I should get back into my long-time hobby of baseball card collecting. Well, actually it was Cailyn who kind of
breached the topic, ignited the spark. Seems
she is doing a report for school on major league baseball player Barry
Bonds. I’m not at all sure why he was in
the mix to choose from, but, hey, a baseball player is a baseball player,
right? After we heard about the report I
rummaged through one of my baseball card tubs until I managed to find a card of
Barry Bonds for her. It was from back
when he was just a really good, all-star caliber player for the Pittsburgh
Pirates. Long before he (allegedly) discovered
steroids and became a muscle-bound beast.
Hope she can use the card in her report somehow. But back to the collecting. My next goal is to complete the set of
1961-62 (It came out over two years) Fleer Baseball Greats. I have most of the second issue, since I started
collecting cards in 1962. And our
research yesterday indicated that the 1961 set should be much easier - and
cheaper – to find. And it does appear
that there are a myriad of places to begin online. Not as much fun as gong to card shows and
little shops, but I guess we all have to adapt.
In
the afternoon we took our walk and did our stair-walking. I still did lunges up on the deck in between
flights of steps. It wears me out, but I
think it’s really helping the knee rehab.
Afterward we rested a bit in our new patio chairs. That’s when we saw a fascinatingly cute
little blueish bird flitting about our bushes.
I tried to get a picture, but it would stay still long enough. It obviously wasn’t a hummingbird, which we
see all the time, so Chris grabbed her trusty iPad mini and looked it up. Best we can figure it was a Cyrillian Warbler. Sounds like a creature on Star Trek to me …
Psalms
138:7 says, “Though I walk in the midst
of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the anger
of my foes, with your right hand you save me.”
Father,
thank you for sharing that tiny bit of your creation with us. It was beautiful. Amen.
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