Quote of the Day:

"How did the bull get into the pit?" -- Zsolt

"The same way David Douglas did." -- me

Journal of a Sabbatical

June 19, 2000

nothing in particular

Today's Bird Sightings:
Thoreau's - Not Mine
robin (American robin)
huckleberry bird (field sparrow)
red-eye (possibly red-eyed vireo)
wood thrush
blue jay
scarlet tanager
cuckoo (probably black-billed cuckoo)
bobolink
partridge (ruffed grouse)

Today's Reading: Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau edited by H.G.O. Blake, Traces of Thoreau by Stephen Mulloney

Today's Starting Pitcher:
Brian Rose

The Red Sox are being clobbered by the Yankees as I write this. Is there a mercy rule in baseball like in softball? I haven't been paying close enough attention to determine how many of the runs were given up by Brian Rose. Poor Brian Rose. Someday he will be a good pitcher, but probably not in Boston.

I finished Traces of Thoreau. It grabbed me the same way Mulloney describes being grabbed by Thoreau's Cape Cod. It made me want to go walk on the Great Outer Beach again as I haven't done for years. The Cape rarely figures in my travel plans because of the unbearable traffic getting to and from, but I suppose if I really wanted to go there I could take the boat from Boston.

This just in: final score 22 to 1. Yikes!