San José and Back.

3-16-10 SHORT HILLS: We were in San José over the weekend and saw some excellent pitching on the SJ Little League AA Reds by Eoin, three scoreless innings giving up two hits and two walks with six strikeouts and the win. The bullpen gave up a run, but got the save. Joey bats leadoff and played third base, and Eoin bats third, after his sixty pitches, he played shortstop.


Righty Eoin singles.


Lefty Joe sets it up.


ERA-zero. We heard there was some rain in NYC.

California is awash in flowers—magnolias, fruit trees, poppies, wisteria, hyacinth and all those warm climate plants. The new dog, a five month old German Shepard, is getting trained and seems very responsive.


Murphy the dog.

After the red-eye Sunday night, we had a day of rain back in NJ on Monday. There was a lot a rain here over the weekend while we were sunny in Cal. Today was beautiful, sunny and warm, and I started doing more clean up of sticks and branches brought down by the winter storms. I laid pavers on a muddy path, started siphoning water out of the pool, spread lime [Ca-MgCO3] and gypsum [Ca-MgSO4], 80 lbs of each in the yard on what should be lawn. I started fertilizing all the shrubs and bulbs. I saw a butterfly and a honey bee, must be spring.

New blooms: Crocus.

Can you find the pollinator working the snow drops?


Crocus.