The game was on the line as I stepped up to the plate. Actually, we were up eleven runs, and had no outs. For a championship game, this was a yawn. We...were playing a team from Vancouver. They'd used all their gas to get to the championship and had nothing left.The pitcher let loose with a fastball that wasn't, and I smacked my second home run of the game. As I trotted around the bases, I looked up in the stands. Tami was sitting with Traci, between my folks and Robbie's dad, near the third. "You can't be serious," Ron said."Well, if I have to go in..." I said. "Then so do you guys." I grabbedChases hand and we followed Julie."That doesn't even make any sense," Ron complained as he reluctantlyfollowed us.I stopped at a selection of bras. I saw a teal and white polka-dot brathat caught my eye. "Julie this is cute." I can't believe those wordsjust came out of my mouth.I turned back to Chase and Ron who were just standing in an aisle lookingawkward, trying not to stare at. Cooper laughed."The blindfold is an illusion," Bud laughed along with Cooper. "And the boxing gloves are quickly shrinking away."After dinner and a shower, I spent a little time cleaning up after myself in the kitchen and then sat down with the laptop out on the front porch. The rocking chair there had been inviting me since I'd first walked up the porch steps and I finally succumbed to its lure.I had decided to look first at water skiing in the Santa Rosa area. The two biggest lakes in the. "Marcus sighed heavily, "George has given me a couple estimates if'n this bill passes. Right nasty." Can we absorb it?"There was a moment of silence then another heavy sigh, "Yeah, profit margin'll make Momma scream ta all hell but we can take the hit. Don't know how some of the smaller charter's'll do with it." Well, I've been trying to get them to make the tax a pass-thru. It'll raise prices but at least it'll raise 'em across the board." That'd help. You comin' in for Momma's birthday?".