The plan today is to get out in the road-buckling heat and work on the John Deere. I'm hoping that just changing the hydraulic fluid and filling it to the proper level will solve my problems. If not, to the shop it goes. I'd be out there in the heat and humidity right now if this stuff didn't have to be thought up and typed. I'm all about the sacrifice for my two readers.
Great news for LSU baseball fans. The Tigers already figured to be a national contender in 2010 but Blake Dean coming back for his senior season moves them up a peg. Somewhat risky move on his part, though. Major League Baseball knows he can hit. The only way for him to improve his draft stock is to show that he can play somewhere in the field. A shoulder injury has mostly kept him out of the field the last two seasons. He plans to get himself right and his head coach has committed to giving him that chance (See QOTD). A chance is all any ball player should want.
61 days until football season ...
Quote of the Day
We'll find room for Blake Dean somewhere on the field if he comes back. We're committed to that. That kid has earned that from me.
Paul Mainieri, LSU Head Baseball Coach
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "He's not just "some guy"? He's some guy with a cool quote!"
There is a profound quote there but I don't know that I would characterize it as cool. I think I'd lean more towards sad but true. -Rob
Dog days, for you. We have warmed up a bit, but it is still pretty dry. We had some humidity yesterday and for a while it looked like thunderstorms, and then it just evaporated. They said on TV that the dewpoints were in the 30s here today and that June temps ended up to be 2.3 degrees below normal.
I've heard only one thunderstorm roll through this year and we are well into July. We're also down at least half a foot in rain for the season. I hate to ask for trouble, but feel free to send a little of that humidity our way.
Our lawn is such a quagmire the John Deere has left a series of trackmarks all over it! And let's not talk about how somebody got stuck in a large boggy section...
Heat and humidity in Louisiana is a bit different animal than heat and humidity anywhere else, Dave. I wouldn't wish this weather on anyone, whether they want it or not.
I've gotten my John Deere stuck twice, Fi. It was embarrassing enough that I had gotten it stuck and couldn't get it out on my own. The embarrassment moved up a few notches when I had to call a wrecker to pull me out both times.
Sometimes I stay in out of the heat an humidity to do some blog reading. I figure if somebody's going to write something down, I should do my part and read it.
Commitment like ours is rare, Delmer.