Play Ball!

The baseball season in the U.S. has begun! This promises to be another exciting season. With the addition of instant replay, maybe the umps’ poor calls won’t change the outcome of games.  My Yankees open up in Houston this Tuesday. We will be celebrating Derek Jeter in this, his final season.  Meanwhile … WE INNERUPT THIS POST TO BRING YOU BREAKING NEWS!!!

My funky green ball has been located. After weeks and months of allegedly scouring every inch of our condo, the ball turned up under TW’s bed. TW claims to have looked under her bed many times without success. It was jammed between two of the under bed boxes.

We don’t know how I came in possession of the green ball. TW thinks it was part of a package I got quite a while ago from Mariodacat. I love this ball so much that I was no where around when TW tried last month to photograph the ball. By the time, the shutter clicked, this is what the pic looked like.

Early yesterday morning, I was heard running through the condo playing with my green ball. I batted it! I threw it in the air! I gleefully chased it all over to give it the what-for. Life is good again.

I’m thinking my green ball must be magnetic cos TW can’t walk close to it without stepping on it. Her foot is magnetically drawn to that ball. Even when she sees it and tries to step around it, she still lands right on it.

Yes, there were replacement balls. The first was from Petland Discounts. While I played with it, it never quite fit the bill. Then she bought a package of animal-print balls, knowing full well that her and Pop would never see them on the carpeting in the hall. The zebra-print ball was not on the rug for a half hour before it ended up crushed under TW’s big foot. Now it’s out of shape and slow much like she is. Do you have a favorite toy you couldn’t live without?

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