When adequately filled

To follow up on the Pouf! blog entry a few days ago, I wanted to show how the Moroccan leather footstool appears when adequately filled. I think it looks great. Betty has been attacking it lately, so it’s obviously already becoming a beloved member of our furniture family.

If you think you’d enjoy some light but smart mystery fiction involving jazz subjects, I highly recommend a trio of books by Bill Moody: Solo Hand, Death of a Tenor Man, and The Sound of the Trumpet. The latter two involve real-life musicians Wardell Gray and Clifford Brown. These books were published in the late 1990s, when I first read them. I just re-read the first two and am in the middle of the third. All are available at the Eugene Public Library; well, all but The Sound of the Trumpet, which will be when I’m done.

And speaking of books, yesterday two volumes recommended by friends arrived in the mail: Dragonflies and Damselflies of Oregon by Cary Kerst & Steve Gordon, and Jon Miller’s Confessions of a Baseball Purist (written with Mark Hyman). Miller is a funny man and one of my favorite baseball play-by-play radio announcers. He’s been working for the San Francisco Giants since the early 1990s, and has also spent time with ESPN, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Oakland Athletics.

And speaking of baseball, a pitcher with a great name—Hayden Birdsong—performed masterful relief work for three innings last night to help San Francisco defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in the first Giants home game since April 9. Nice to come back to Oracle Park and win the first game of the homestand!