Old and Wrinkled

PP carved a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. Its days are numbered. The pumpkin has developed major league wrinkles. I took his picture before placing him gingerly in the garbage. His work here is done. Halloween is gone.

After watching the Vikings and Brett Favre work some uncommon magic this afternoon, I got myself ready for USTA tennis action at the University of Minnesota tennis center in Ridder Arena. I once again had to play the number one position against the best team of the opponents. We lost a couple of close sets 6-7, 4-6, but the two and three positions prevailed and the team as a whole remains undefeated. This is a photo of the court on which we played. It was taken before our match, and the mixed team on the far side were the team we played two weeks ago.  The U courts are nice, but the surface is a little slow and it often puts off my timing a bit.  No excuses, we could have won.

It was a nice day outside, too.  Our string of exceptional weather continues.  It hovered in the sixties in mid afternoon.