Lydia sent us a box of mail on Day 51. The mailbox folks sent it USPS instead of UPS. Usually that wouldn’t matter, but USPS mail is not delivered to the RV site. They hold it for a week then send it back. It’s up to us to go pick it up. I learned that today when I took a trip to pick up the box.

The heat has returned and is going to ascend into triple digits once more. But the temp drops drastically at night into the 60’s and will sometimes drop into the 40’s range. Thank goodness our A/C units work properly. So far.

Diane took a trip to the BX to get an electric razor for her legs. I told her she needs legs like mine. Mine have no hair. I’ve enjoyed that kind of hairlessness for many years. For some reason the little I had was either absorbed by my body or it just fell off when I wasn’t looking. Lucky me, right?

When she returned, Max and I were sitting on the patio enjoying the dissipating heat after a long walk. After sitting with us for a bit, she declared it time for supper, so we went in to eat her stew that’s been cooking for a couple of days. I didn’t take a picture of it, but I did get a shot of the meat while I was cooking it yesterday.

There just isn’t anything better than homemade stew.

This evening Diane and I had the honor of watching the LA Dodgers win the first game of the 2024 World Series 6-3 in extra innings against the NY Yankees. We didn’t start watching the game until the top of the 9th with the score tied 2-2. No one scored in the 9th so it went to extra innings. NY was batting first and managed to score 1 run so to keep it going the Dodgers had to score at least 1 run. With 1 out they got a hit, and the next batter walked. Next up was Ohtani, the Dodgers heavy hitter. He hit a long ball that was caught by the left fielder who promptly fell over a wall out of bounds. That was out 2 and it’s my understanding that because the left fielder fell out of bounds with the ball, the runners got to advance so runners were on 2nd and 3rd.

Then the Freddie Freeman came up to bat and the bases were loaded. I didn’t understand how a runner wound up on 1st base because I never saw a batter get a hit or get walked. But there he was. Freddie took the first pitch and drove it out for a grand slam walk off. That was significant for two reasons. 1) In all my life I’ve never witnessed a grand slam that won a game; and 2) That was the first walk off grand slam in World Series history.

What fun.

Then I went to bed.