Game 107: Yankees (Cortes) at Cardinals (Hudson)

Good news is hopefully many didnt watch, thanks to the game being on Amazon Prime last night.

Prime was wonky all night. The sound was off all game and at one point the video gave seizure inducing flickerings during the end of the game. 

It was delivered in its normal format on DISH TV through extra innings…

No offense inger, but I never want to share a two-holer with you.

Just like the Yankee bullpen.

Walking through our bathroom door threshold, one looked straight ahead toward the east wall, where two windows looked upon our back yard, which was essentially St. Augustine grass, a septic tank, a shed housing the pump to our water well (normally with garlic hanging from the roof), several bamboo trees, huge fig trees, oak trees, a vegetable garden, and a fenced lot for horses.  Behind all of that was a field usually plowed, flooded, or filled with rice, or rice stubble after harvest.  Between the two windows in the east wall was a gas heater that produced an open flame.  

On the west wall was the door, a sink and medicine cabinet and a small bench that held towels.  On the south wall was all storage space: inset cabinets from floor to ceiling, inset drawers, an inset clothes hamper, and behind two doors was a closet full of shelves, and above the two closet doors were two more cabinets that reached the ceiling.  

On the north wall was the tub and shower and the two now famous back to back toilets. The first one, if seated, faced west; the second, if seated, faced east.  Separating the two was a partition wall that contained the plumbing for them.  Each had its own toilet paper roll.  

The bathroom was not unisex.  Any female using the facilities had complete privacy.  There was a different standard for the boys.  We never had privacy.  Any attempts on my part, as I mentioned previously, were met with derision and scorn.  I avoided such arrangements, often using the great outdoors to micturate.  No one lived within a quarter to half mile from us, except my grandmother.  Plenty of trees, a horse barn, three sections of garden, and the sides and back of the house to utilize without being seen.  

The house was set on concrete pylons, roughly two to three feet above the ground, to guard against flooding from hurricanes or multiple days of torrential rain.  When this did happen, ditches surrounding the home parcel would overflow and surround our house like a lake.  Occasionally, an alligator would take temporary residence near the mail box until the water subsided.  

We also had four boys and one girl.  Yep St. Augustine grew so fast, especially when it rained.  We also had a Lawn Boy push lawn mower at one time (remember mixing the gas and oil?).  My father later discovered big-wheeled lawn mowers that had a self-propelled option (if the grass was not too tall), that looked sort of like this: