Two Noras: July 7, 1914 and July 7, 2021

Nora Bauer: Tuesday, July 7, 1914

Got my Trial Balance today. Worked on my library scarf tonight. 

Nora Spitznogle: Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Worked downtown, WW and groceries after, and surprisingly played kickball tonight. 

It sounds like Grandma Nora was able to close out the bookkeeping for June for Barnes Construction. That must have been a good feeling. And what the heck is a library scarf? Nothing showed up in the newspaper searches for that era. Googling just shows scarves with books on it. 

I have a new resolve about losing the weight that I gained last year. I popped in to Weight Watchers for the first time in five weeks and had actually lost .2 of a pound. I'll take it - not gaining over the last two weeks feels like a victory. 

Weeks ago when I signed up for the Second Helpings kickball team I was just doing it to round out the team, but was promised that I wouldn't need to play. 

So here we are. 

Between injuries and vacations there were only eight of us able to play...against a younger team that fielded 11 players - at least one of whom played Division One soccer. 

I played third base and the other team kept kicking it towards the grey haired lady. I managed two tag two of them out and totally bumbled throwing the ball to make a third out. In my defense I just learned today that you could throw the ball at someone - I assumed kickball was like baseball - throwing the ball at someone was bad. And I'm not sure that I can deliberately throw the ball at someone. 

I only had to kick twice and didn't get on base either time, but one of my teammates scored - that's an RBI, right? 

I also learned what the mercy rule means....