July 9-13

With the end of street hockey season and no baseball around anywhere the last few days were very uneventful. Jenny and I had lunch on Thursday as usual and again on Friday, she had some papers that needed to be taken into town and where they needed to go is closed on Saturdays. After a week away the Barnstormers were scheduled to open a series at home on Friday but a steady all-day rain caused the game to be postponed and rescheduled as part of a Saturday doubleheader. Earlier in the week Dick Myers and I discussed going to Aberdeen on Saturday night for the ballgame, in the afternoon he came into my place and we headed south into Maryland from there. The Williamsport Crosscutters were the opponent, they are the Phillies' New York-Pennsylvania League affiliate. Williamsport, PA has a long history in pro baseball dating back to the 1880s, the Phillies have been there since 2007. The Aberdeen Ironbirds are the Orioles' club (since 2002) so it was a rare chance for me to watch the two major league organizations I follow go head-to-head (albeit at a lower level). The Cutters trailed by one in the seventh and scored twice to take the lead, a six-run eighth inning put the icing on a 9-2 Williamsport win. On the way back into Pennsylvania I called Jenny, she said they were having fireworks at the community park in Quarryville. As we came further north on 222 I could see them to the east from about five miles away. Such are the rural, wide-open areas of southern Lancaster County. Take care, thanks for reading.