June 28, 2015
(This is part of a 365 project
during my 70th year where I write and illustrate a blog on each
day’s gift.)
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| David Ettlin with Buck Showalter gnome. |
After storms postponed yesterday’s game, the rescheduled Orioles
game tonight against the Cleveland Indians ended with an 8 to 0 Baltimore victory. A highlight of the game was a fantastic
and dramatic stretched diving catch by Travis Snider, who also hit one of the game's homeruns. The Orioles showed
gnome mercy to the Indians.
What a fun time with husband David and friend Stacy. It was
a game honoring Orioles manager Buck Showalter and a huge crowd of Baltimore
fans lined up to enter the stadium and claim their free Buck Showalter garden gnome. Of
course, we all rooted for the gnome team. At the 7th
inning stretch, we sang John Denver’s Thank
God, I’m a Country Boy instead of his well-gnome song Country Roads Take Me Gnome.
What’s more American than baseball and garden gnomes…and all
the puns that follow. One fan informed us that it wasn’t weather that had postponed
the original game but health concerns about gnomonia. Of course, when talking
about gnomes, one must use the correct gnomenclature, as David reminds me. (I’m
not sure if I’ve done this.) One fan held a sign: Buck Showalter—to gnome him
is to love him. After the game, cheering fans left the stadium saying goodnight
to their friends with phrases like, “Nice gnoming you.” And they returned home
because there is no place like gnome.
Gnome puns intended.
My gift today is a
garden gnome.
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