At The Ballpark

It was a great night to go to a baseball game last night.

Michael, a friend who has an advertising agency here in town, and I went to Monroe Wednesday night to see my beloved ULM Warhawks play the Mississippi State University Bulldogs in an out-of-conference game at Warhawk Field on the ULM campus. Michael graduated from MSU as did I from ULM and the two of us have made it a tradition to go to any game that the two schools play against each other that's within driving distance. Counting last night, we have been to three baseball games and one basketball game over the last 8 years. We have a great time but usually Mississippi State wins the games.

Until last night. The Warhawks broke a 1-1 tie game pitcher's duel with six runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat the Southeastern Conference team 7-1. The story to the game is HERE. I didn't gloat but it was hard to hide my glee from Michael. Overall, we had a good time as usual, sitting in reserved seats midway up the stands on the first base line. We had our game caps on and sat in front of another MSU graduate who lived in Winnfield. He ended up catching a foul ball that arced over into the stands, bounced over us and the guy stretched out backwards to catch it...a really good catch! We were also part of the 5th largest crowd to see a Warhawk home game with 3,673 in attendance. Five of the six largest crowds were here when LSU came to play...not much of a surprise.

The "Left Field Lounge" area of Warhawk Field,
part of the large crowd on hand.

Well, the windows are in an finished for the most part. I have to do the painting on the casings...one of the ways we're trying to save money on this job...and we'll have to get new blinds. The glass area on these new windows is larger than the old ones and we weren't expecting that, so the old blinds are about 2" too narrow. That's an expense we weren't expecting but it has to be done. The new windows look great and really enhances the look of the house from the street. Now we'll see if they save us any money on our heating and cooling bills! There's a tidbit of work left to be done in the guest bathroom by the wall guy and then I can dive in to finish up the renovation there. I'm actually anxious to get on with the painting and attaching the wainscot paneling. It's going to look really nice when it's done and it shouldn't take me that long to do it. We still have to decide on a medicine cabinet and on how we want to hang the mirror. We're going to use the mirror from the master bath but we haven't decided how to frame or hang it yet.

I ventured out to Tuesday Night Worlds to see what my fitness was like after all this time off the bike (well, I did ride Saturday thru Monday but those were short rides) and to see how my foot would hold up under real pressure. I ended up doing alright, got in about 30 miles of hard riding but, yeah, I need to build my endurance back up. It'll be tough to do in April since I'll be spending a lot of time with the Centenary kids at races. May will have to be my big training month to where I'll look at doing some races in June and July.