World Series

 

The best thing about the World Series was subscribing to newspapers from both cities so we received two special sections.

Friends invited us over to watch with them and their place was decked out. They rent their place and the owners have put many fake animals in the yard.

Inside the house everyone was dressed in Dodgers gear, 

but hats were set aside.

They even had something I had never seen, Dodgers papel picado!

Another winner of the day was a friend who also combined two celebrations.

May Leftovers

 

My baby's adorable feet, xylophone for scale.

A receptionist's amazing miniature collection, but nothing for scale, unfortunately.

cactus in bloom

the powder room outside the bathroom
under the grandstand at the LA Co. Fair

Italian book that showed up in our little library

snapping a picture with a turtle in the water before thinking
that the turtle might snap at those juicy-looking fingers

matilija poppies

Our friends' daughter on the
front page of the New York Times

Headline News

On April 3 our history calendar highlighted the first mobile phone call.

On April 4 the New York Times used their Headlines in History to mention
 that the wire-less telephone had been introduced the day before.

I think this is the first time it has happened, but I keep looking for another connection.

Dirty hands

From reading five papers that came into the house today.

The New York Times is delivered to the house five times a week
and my parents-in-law share their Sunday edition with us.

The Los Angeles Times is delivered to the house four times a week.

The Claremont Courier arrives in the mail on Fridays.

Sometimes D. bring home The Student Life from campus and occasionally I pick it up

A. is good about bringing home the Wolfpacket, but we have a subscription, too.
Tonight the paper was given out at the football game after the homecoming queen was announced.

There are also library books and magazines to keep up with!

On the other hand

Most area papers cater to its readers, as does the Oklahoma City paper.

Here is the day's front page prayer.

In addition to Dear Abby they have Dear Dr. Graham.

 But this was not the same.

The L.A. Times lists the conference of the L.A. teams first.

The N.Y. Times lists the conference or division of the N.Y. teams first.

I was surprised to see that the OKC paper lists the Eastern Conference first.

I don't think there is a deep meaning to it all, but it is fun to read the local paper and learn a little something.

Changes

One of the few comic strips I read daily is gone.  I looked all through the paper for an explanation but finally thought to look online.  The creator is retiring, although still creating Sunday strips.  You can read more about Stone Soup on Jan Eliot's blog.  The new strip is Half Full by Maria Scrivan.

In other exciting news the local grocery store has chip readers.

I feel obligated to point out this is not my purchase being run up.

A credit card could still be swiped, but the machine will now read chip cards.  I will need to get used to waiting until the entire purchase has been registered before putting in my card, plus there is another pause while the chip is read.  I am glad I am not there at dinner time tonight!

And this is new, too, but deserves its own post.

Filling my time

On his way D. asked how I would fill my day.

The table was strewn with the day's papers along with at least one old one.

More magazines arrived in today's mail.

And there are always book-club books and books people recommend.

Sorry, clean clothing and dinner will have to wait.

Then and Now, newspaper edition

Times change, pun intended.  The bottom paper is from March 31, 1998, the middle from January 13, 2001, and the top from this week.  They had been saved originally for the energy policy articles, but I saved them a second time because I wanted to see how they compared to the current paper.  The width of the paper is obvious.  The price of this week's paper cost $1.50 at the newsstand and the other two cost $0.25.

Some topics don't change.  Before recycling the papers I noticed this article in the 1998 paper, written by two Pulitzer Prize winning reporters, neither of whom is still working for the L.A. Times.