So how 'bout that Carlos Silva? Minnesota Twins. Last night. 74 pitches. Complete game. No, no, stay with me, whether you're currently missing the daily boxscores, or don't follow the game until late September, this is a good post... 74 pitches. 9 innings: 6,7,10,8,13,3,7,10,10.

I think I saw my first 3-pitch inning last night too. No, not just 3 up, 3 down. We've all seen that plenty enough, even amateur followers like myself. 3 pitches. 3 outs. Of course, the infield was giving him plenty of support. If I was the opposing manager, my thoughts were to recommend not swinging on the first pitches. But you don't tell your hitters what to do at that level, I suppose. And if they were swinging, Silva was delivering mostly strikes.

It was fun to watch, on tv, with Norm. Twins were playing the Brewers, but despite geography, I don't follow them as my home team. Sox beat the Cubs yesterday too...
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They say it's rained, or been overcast, something like 12 out of the last 17 days in the Twin Cities area. So people are down, in that rainy spell kind of way. The onions like it though. I picked up some starter plants, but less than last year. Two peppers, more tomatoes, one parsley. Norm says he likes to wait until after Decoration Day to get them into the ground anyway, so there's plenty of time to get more.

If I had a camera with me, you'd be enjoying a fine picture here: the sun was out yesterday afternoon and evening, and they have a cool white "greenhouse" constructed in the grocery store parking lot. Lined horizontally with the flower flats, and backdropped against the blue sky, the way the sun was hitting this temporary structure (made of plastic? wrap?) made it look like a hangar, or salt collection bin, or something futuristic. It was more in the colors and the shapes, against the clean white structure. Yeah, a picture is worth a thousand, I know. And no, I wasn't hallucinating...

Anyway, the people here are eager to get out, plant their summer gardens. A man at the library desk now, in fact, checking out movies, is talking about the weather. Ah, life in a small town, on a rainy Saturday. It's good... especially if you're not here for the whole rainy spell.