Brian H. Feighner
@feighnerbh
Ret US Army PH/FP doc. Now baseball, gardening & travel (53 countries, 49 US states). OLD SCHOOL catcher & baseball coach. “I thought this was the kid with the arm who couldn't hit?" Dick Bowie, Baltimore Orioles HOF.
Once again, I order the local pils and am surprised at what a solid beer it is. It has a 82 rating on Beer Advocate. It was well balanced and not too hoppy even at 35 IBU. Cheers.
Caught the first hop I tried from Dover to Ramstein. Kicking back in a Gasthaus to get over the jet lag. How many features do you see here that are definitely not found commonly in the US?
Vorletztes Heimspiel. Jetzt zählt jeder Sieg. Am Samstag, 18.07., empfangen wir Schriesheim im Ballpark in Saarlouis. Die Saison geht in ihre heiße Phase und wir wollen den ersten Tabellenplatz aus eigener Kraft verteidigen. Dafür dürfen wir uns keine Fehler mehr erlauben.
Sorta. More like: There is a military requirement to fly cargo from Point A to Point B. If the weight of the cargo is less than the capacity of the plane, you can hang onto netting along the side of the plane.
My unofficial military Space Available air travel rules, gleaned & refined over the past 50 years. Catching free hops around the world is the modern day equivalent of riding the rails.
I was a MS3 on my first Medicine rotation in Houston. We were working up a bunch of young guys for occult cancer (to explain their opportunistic infections).
@afkostka.bsky.social caught the BaySox for Father’s Day. Povich threw 43 pitches (34 strikes) in 3.1 innings. 1 infield hit, KK ꓘ, 0 BB, looked sharp. Beavers 0-5 as DH, no pop in the 3 ABs I saw. Fun day.
Caught the Chesapeake BaySox on Father’s Day. Cade Povich & Dylan Beavers made rehab starts. Povich looked good. Sported my German Alfeld Greenhorns merch in style!
A quick rain shower early & now a sunny day for the vegetable garden. Okra and beans are up. Weeded & now ready for a Father’s Day MiLB game. Most of the 13 tomato plants - 5 varieties including 3 Sungold - are setting fruit. Yay.
My wife & I have been thru some rough patches in 46 years of marriage, but nothing like this morning when I discovered that MONSTER ate all of the cinnamon bread bites from last night’s pizza run.
@capitalweather.bsky.social IS BACK! No longer associated with the WaPo.
Last morning at the Lake House in Thompson, NY. Pretty good mirror effect off the water.
They’ll remember their days at www.giantmicrobes.com/us/media/cat...
Cardinals threatening in B2, down 3-1 to the Longhorns in Foothills Major Baseball Association action. Calgary, AB, waiting for our flight back east. I’m thinking we’ll win the ‘Who came farthest to see this game?’ contest if they have it. No concession stand, eating up the last of the RV grub.
@lizzierie.bsky.social I was a guest coach in Germany last year for a lower-level baseball team. Even at those levels, true to Teutonic form, scorekeepers must take courses & pass an exam before they can be an official scorer. And the scoresheet is standardized!
Right outside the RV. Lake Louise Campground, Banff NP, Alberta.
Hitting all the highlights across the High Line in Montana. Here’s Salem Sue, the World’s Largest Holstein Cow.
In Montana & looking to grab a few bottles of this tasty brown ale. The timing of this RV relocation was great for the price but terrible for watching minor league baseball. Pretty much every place we’ve been to opens up just after we’ve had to leave.
Sitting on the bank of the Heart River where it dumps into the Missouri with Whatzername. Life’s OK.
Using my Merlin birding app to add to my life list as we cross the continent. Saw several sand cranes yesterday, including this big one in Steele, ND.
Dancing at exactly 45 ° 00’ 00” N latitude / 90 ° 00’ 00” W longitude, one of two 45/90 spots on dry land. Halfway between the N pole & the equator and halfway between the prime meridian & the antimeridian. Making our roadtrip count near Rietbrock, WI.
Those aren’t smiles but grimaces after the NP Ranger recommended hike of 1.5 m to Lake Michigan was mostly soul-crushing, thigh-high fine sand. And uphill both ways. Sleeping Bear Dunes in the distance on the left.
Sunset on Lake Michigan at Holland State Park, MI. Yesterday was the first day the beach area was open after all the sand kicked in by winter storms was finally cleared. Tons of people out in the nice weather to welcome the new season.