Some Days

I actually went shopping for clothing yesterday after we visited Beltone for an adjustment to Brother's hearing aids.
He has had them for a week and they were set so loud that he turned the TV so low I can't couldn't hear it - seems I'm a listener, not a watcher. He has hear sounds that he hasn't heard in years: traffic, rubber on tires hitting road, stove vent fan, water to the ice maker, clocks ticking and he says the commode flushing sounds like Niagra Falls.
The Beltone man activated the toggle on each aid so that Brother can manually turn them up and down. Even turned down, it still doesn't seem right to me - the TV is still too low for me to hear comfortably.
And it hasn't been easy to get into October Baseball fever since neither the Yankees or Atlanta are playing. I'm pulling for the Mets and Detroit, but who knows now ... it's just not as much fun this year.
I like Ivan Rodrequiz, maybe I'll think of his nickname in a minute ... and that the Trammels from somewhere in central Florida where we used to go to spring training, Alex and Bubba, were with the Tigers.
And we knew Marvelous Marv Thornberry of the Amazing Mets. He lived in Memphis and came to the bottom to fish. He was a neat guy, but is no longer living.
Our other fun baseball people are Andy Seminick and a couple of American League umpires, Dale Ford and Durwood Merrrill. Dale is retired and lives in East Tennessee but Durwood has gone on to that big game in the sky.
They sure did have some good stories to tell.
Back to my shopping, 1 fall jacket, one knit top, and 3 co-ordinating pants. Well, after all, it's the first time I've winter shopped in about 10 years ... all the weddings have been in the summer.
And if you read any of the earlier blogs, the toaster is working better now, I have my new glasses, but don't see much better, and I have one article in Power for Today this quarter.