Go fourth!

The wins keep multiplying. Another first-place finish in last night’s Alley Cats tournament. This victory was all the more unlikely because I truly did play like shit, especially early on. We got knocked into the loser’s bracket in the first round and barely managed to avoid being first out of the tourney. Had some luck along the way and kept fighting and scratching our way into the championship finals. It came down to the last leg of a very tough match but we pulled it out of our ass somehow.

Congrats to my partner, Kevin. The best thing I can say about last night is we didn’t give up, even when things appeared hopeless.

So that makes four tourney wins in a row. Will I take the fifth tonight? Not going to answer that on grounds that it may incriminate me.

In other news, the weather has finally cleared up. That allowed me to take a slightly longer and more interesting walk this morning. I’m sure y’all have been jonesing for some outdoorsy pictures, so here you go:

Those of you who have been following Kevin Kim’s epic walk from Incheon to Busan know that he likes to include an occasional dead animal in his photo essays. So, I dedicate this frog to Kevin!
What with all the rain and me playing darts I haven’t had the opportunity to share a new view of Easter mountain for quite a while now. Here you go.
The rain is more than a memory though. Most of the back streets I was walking on were full of puddles like these.
Others provided muddy reminders of our recent wet weather. A bit further up this alley was a babbling brook I had to cross. Too wide to jump over so wet shoes it was.
The final climb taking me back to home sweet home.

It does seem that there is a hierarchy amongst my pets:

I do believe Buddy is signaling that he is indeed top dog.

And that’s all I’ve got for today.

I hope you’ll agree that this was a bloomin’ good post…

UPDATE: Well, damn. I didn’t even check today’s post title because it didn’t occur to me that I might have used such a silly pun previously. Turns out I did–way back in September. Then my cute pun was about our hike: Us four going forth on the fourth. Hey, it was funny in my head. Oh well.

3 thoughts on “Go fourth!

  1. I appreciate the croak-out! Congrats on the win, and good luck with the next contest. Keep batting a thousand (if you’re okay with mixing metaphors)!

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