We Got One
October 31, 2025
Sherlock Holmes, complete with pipe, was our only trick or treater. That’s one more than we got last year. I like the trend.
I was also glad, if we were going to get only one trick or treater, that it was a costume I recognized. I’d read a list this morning of this year’s most popular costumes, and I didn’t know a single one (characters from KPop Demon Hunters, Labubu and Wicked). I’d have really fumbled at the door if our one visitor was wearing one of those.
Here’s a shot of our kitchen window from the front porch …
Also: Dodgers won tonight. There will be a game #7.
Over the Scorekeeping Moon!
October 29, 2025
You know what I learned tonight? How much I love scorekeeping. I knew I loved it for all the years I did it, but I’d forgotten how much. I’m sad there are only two more (if the Dodgers get lucky) games in the World Series and then baseball season is over for the year.
Scorekeeping checks all my ocd boxes: counting things, documenting every little thing, totaling things, making columns and rows match.
Plus? Baseball.
Found a scorebook with some blank pages (this one was from July 2015.. ten years ago) at the top of a stack of scorebooks, stats, rosters, tournament programs, newspaper clippings, certificates, and a couple of varsity letters. The stack was on top of a file box that was also filled to the brim with baseball documentation and memorabilia dating back to T-Ball days. Well organized and labeled, I might add.
(Just to underscore the depth of my documentation fetish.)
From tonight’s game (the 5th of a, hopefully, seven game series) between the LA Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays won and now lead 3-2 in the series. The teams travel to Toronto and resume play on Friday the 31st (Halloween, I just realized!).
Things of beauty, no?
Bottom 18
October 27, 2025
Thank goodness for that Freddie Freeman fella, who whacked (finally) a walk-off solo home run to end a game that had started nearly 7 hours earlier, and give the Dodgers a win … as well as a 2-1 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series. As fantastic as the game was — and it truly was a stunning game for the ages (glad I saw it!) — I was losing patience. I mean, a 9-inning game is long enough, but this was two full nine inning games in one.. an 18 inning game! And nobody had scored a run since about the 7th inning, so this spectator was starting to get frustrated. But … I couldn’t look away. I was there for every pitch, every hit, every blown opportunity, every new pitcher (there may have been twenty pitchers in this game!).. all of it.
Anyway, look it up, it will surely be record setting in so many categories and my description will not do it any justice at all. I did listen to the post game analysis (A-Rod, Derek Jeter, Big Poppy (wow), and that one other guy named Kevin, I think) and know for a fact this game will be going down in history as one of the greats.
As happens every year during the World Series, Jim and I become overnight fans, rooting like nutcases for Our Team! We typically know not a single player, but we get to know them fast and have the nerve to get angry with them when they don’t perform to our liking. It’s shameless. (Hilarious, really.)
Anyway.. now we love Ohtani, and Freddie, and Mookie and that cute Will Smith.
Isn’t this a sweet pic? It’s Freddie hugging Dave Roberts, the Dodger manager. He looks more exhausted and relieved than happy, but sure he’s all three.
Life of Wry 