The Native Iowan

I am pleased to report that the seasonal “rainy-season” is on schedule.

I smile and think of my ol-pard, W.E., he lived for a decade or more in the Solomons and Fiji. He is a natural observer and a ‘fair dinkum’ climatologist… he claims that in the tropics you get a wet season, and then a wetter season.

Here in Qld we run the full spectrum of pendulum swings regularly. If it’s not in-drought, the floods are killing us.

Welcome to Queensland,

Mate.

Over 25mm/ 1inch of rain in the last 48 hours. Soft gentle enduring rain that fills the cracks, does not erode the surface. It’s a great start to the “wetter-season”.

I’m watching the US Pro-Baseball play offs. I like baseball. Played when young. Enjoyed the idea of one-guy with a bat, facing a full team. It is a game of subtleties, finesse. But not fitness. Some of these guys look like they train n ice cream n marshmallows. But they sure as shit can hit a ball.

Babe Ruth was no Adonis.

So far some good games going on.

I was a catcher in my day. Not a good catcher. Maybe dependable, but we were kids and some kid, usually the big one, the fat one, got into the catchers gear and squared behind Home-Plate. I started kinda young and enjoyed it.

Dodgers just scored. Bottom of the 1st. Short drop to centre field. (Or center field) two outs and man on second…

That’s all baseball-talk.

And the beat goes on

More later

Big smiles