It’s a beautiful day, and I’m looking out at the Bull Durham swing I just put out in the front yard. I call it a Bull Durham swing because it’s the kind of swing that Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon were sitting on at the end of the movie Bull Durham. One of my favorite baseball movies. It’s in today’s podcast. It’s a beautiful day. And that swing is just sitting there. And I’m in here. In the house. Where I’ve been all winter. I’m recording this in May. It’s a beautiful day. And I just put the swing up after a long winter of storage in the shed. That’s a job that gets your attention when there’s only one person doing it. The frame is kind of heavy, and the only way to carry it by myself is holding the top of the frame up over my head as high as I can and walking it all the way over to the front of the house. Once the frame is set up, it’s time for the swing. The swing itself isn’t very heavy but it’s about six feet long which is too long and floppy for one guy to carry both ends. As I said, the shed is all the way over on the other side of the property. My Lady Wonder Wench stuck her head out the door and volunteered to help…but I said…”No…stand back woman. I can handle this.” I don’t know why guys are the way we are. But I’m getting too old to fight it.
