Christmas 1986
Dec. 28th, 2010 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgLurking in the family album I found this action shot from Christmas 1986, taken in the folks' backyard. We were playing backyard cricket/baseball with a shovel for a bat and lemons for balls. The lemons tended to explode on impact, and I'm not quite sure if there was a scoring system. Or teams. But roundish things were thrown and struck with longish things, and there were appeals and celebrations.
Why the baseball element? We were hosting an Americal sailor for Christmas while his ship was in port, as he was penpals with Eldest Sister (yes, actual hand-written letters exchanged through international snail mail with sometimes significant delays due to unmentionable deployment logistics). If memory serves he was an aircraft engineer from Idaho by name of Jeff (nicknamed "Spud" as was anyone from the potato state), possibly off the USS aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.
Jeff (if indeed that was his real name) struggled with the concept of a blazingly hot Christmas, but he was friendly, polite, and enthusiastic. We were all a bit bewildered by him. It was an interesting day and one of our most unusual Christmas celebrations.
For reference that's BB D up to bat/shovel and Middle Sister R at slips/backstop.
Why the baseball element? We were hosting an Americal sailor for Christmas while his ship was in port, as he was penpals with Eldest Sister (yes, actual hand-written letters exchanged through international snail mail with sometimes significant delays due to unmentionable deployment logistics). If memory serves he was an aircraft engineer from Idaho by name of Jeff (nicknamed "Spud" as was anyone from the potato state), possibly off the USS aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.
Jeff (if indeed that was his real name) struggled with the concept of a blazingly hot Christmas, but he was friendly, polite, and enthusiastic. We were all a bit bewildered by him. It was an interesting day and one of our most unusual Christmas celebrations.
For reference that's BB D up to bat/shovel and Middle Sister R at slips/backstop.
