Game 117: Rangers (Perez) at Yankees (Sabathia)

Yankees win! Holder with a great hook to end it. Echoing others, why sit Bird? He usually hits lefties better than righties.  Yankees ties their high water mark for the season at 31 games over .500.

I've given up catching the Red Sox, unless something weird happens, they're too far back.

I guess I'm just an optimist.  And, I remember 1978 like it was yesterday.  Keep hope alive!  

Missed this one today in favor of taking a drive through forest near Greenhorn Mountain. The mountain has a peak elevation of slightly over 12,000 feat, which only makes it the 1,107th tallest peak in Colorado. It has excellent prominence however, standing a bit more than 6,000 feet above the surrounding plains.

Disappointed we didn’t see any game animals, but the views and weather were beautiful and the solitude was great. Peace and quiet.

We saw black squirrel, which you don’t see in the east, and an animal resembling a chipmunk called a seven-striped ground squirrel. It was mid day in the forest, so it’s rare to do much animal spotting. The area is rich with elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep, etc..

Maybe we’ll take some back roads on the way home. We’re still a good hour away on the highway, so plenty of time to wander the back roads a bit.

Yep, because then the Yankees would also be playing out of their minds...

I can only imagine Denali. I've been to the top of Pikes Peak at 14,330 several times. We also drove up Mt. Evans which is a bit taller, I believe but the road ends about 1/4 from the top. None of the four of us in the car were game to walk the trail up to the peak. The walk to the rest rooms was enough for us...  (:

I watched a special on Public TV a couple of weeks ago that showed some of the wonders of the Andes. That, too must be amazing...Those peaks are often 18,000+ feet as well, and rise up with great prominence over the surrounding land.

We did take a nice little side trip on the way back into the little (but growing) town of Rye, which skirts the east side of Greenhorn Mountain and it's sister mountains that make up "The Greenhorns" which are also part of "The Wet Mountains". Along the way we spotted a herd of antelope, probably a couple dozen strong. I was also able to figure out where to go the next time, which will take us as near to the peak of Greenhorn Mountain as the road goes. We were looking for that road today, and darned near found it. Someone gave us a bum steer when we asked for directions, and I kind of knew it, but it was a nice forest service road, so we decided that if we were going to be semi-lost it might as well be on half-way decent roads. I never needed to utilize the four wheel drive on my truck, but I was getting close for a little while. Next time, I'm going to make approach from the north, whereas today I approached from the south...

This country sure is beautiful. I need to do more of these drives. They relax me, and you never quite know what you'll see...I have the Kebler Pass near Crested Butte on the list for this autumn. That road takes you by the largest living organism on earth, a grove of aspen...all growing from one single root system...We want to see it when it's in autumn's blaze...Those are truly the experiences we moved to Colorado to see. We did too much with other people in mind this year. They were nice trips and great experiences, but I want to go deeper into the forests and higher in the hills. To see the smallest towns and the places that used to be towns and no longer exist other than a few ruins...