Monday Meanders

During cleaning, over this past weekend, among other treasures, I found a book I hadn't seen in many years: "Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People" by Harry T. Peters.  It's a 1st edition, published in 1942.  I even have the dustjacket.  It is a really, really neat book.

Da Cubs lost three straight to St. Louis.  If nothing else, this little losing streak will server to bring us Cubs' fans back to a measure of reality - many were willing to throw the "Plan" to the wind - the whole rebuild from the ground up - going to take several years "Plan" - in the face of a club that played really good baseball for about a month.  Theo and Jed are going to stick to the plan - this happened at just the right time - before the fan base rose up in mutiny.

I found another book I haven't seen in a while - it's a "coffee table" book called "Irish Houses & Castles" by Desmond Guinness and William Ryan.  It's a 1974 reprint of the 1971 book published by Viking Press.

I love the Yokohama tire commercial where the guy goes, "Duck ... Duck ... Goose!!"  I think it's very witty.

Grannie is very disappointed.  Tiger played poorly in the final round of The Open Championship and did NOT win.  Ernie Els DID win - known as "The Big Easy", he's a man that's earned an enormous amount of respect in and out of Golf.

I'm rather glad that Ernie won.  It's been a long time since he's won a Major - and several years where he's not had a lot of success on The Tour.

All things come to he who waits.

Ndinombethe.