NO CELL PHONES, INTERNET OR TV-OH MY!

Hello Everyone!

I'm so sorry we've been "incommunicado" for a whole week!!!  Krumbs and I were taking one last trip for the summer.  (Sniff, sniff, boo-hoo, hoo, hoo...sniff)  We went to Cooperstown, New York...the place where baseball was born!  (Maybe not "born", but baseball is definitely the focus in this tiny town~we were in Baseball Heaven!!!)

Cooperstown is considered the birthplace of baseball because in 1906, a man named Abner Graves claimed that his best friend, Abner Doubleday invented baseball on a cow field in the village in 1839.  When we visited Cooperstown, we even went to Doubleday Field, which is the exact spot Abner Doubleday supposedly created baseball 173 years ago!  Here's a VIP-Very Important Note: Baseball historians all say Abner Doubleday did not really create baseball, but it was still fun to visit!!  To see Doubleday Field and learn more about its history, click here.

Have you ever heard of the BASEBALL HALL OF FAME?  We have, and Krumbs and I couldn't stay in Cooperstown without a visit!  We had such a fabulous time...VIP-Very Important Note:  The hall of fame is all about baseball, but don't throw one there.  There are plenty of things to see and lots of glass...not a good place for a baseball game!!!  We saw old uniforms, team rings, read about how players overcame prejudice and discrimination to play together, and even learned about the first women's baseball league!  To read more about the Baseball Hall of Fame, click here.

We stayed on a huge farm and believe it or not, we had no cell service, no internet service , no alarm clocks and NO TV...for a whole week!  We woke up with crowing roosters, (Yep! They really do "cock-a-doodle-doo" every morning!!!!!) helped milk cows, walked through rows and rows of corn stalks and fed the chickens.  We ate the best, freshest ice cream in the world, visited the largest barbecue in the country and went to the Farmers Museum and the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum. It was the best vacation ever!!!

We had no internet service, no cell phone service and no computers for a week, but we had a fantastic time!  Have you ever had a time when you weren't sure if you'd have fun...and then you have the time of your life?   That was our experience this week...we're almost ready to end our "living the late life" summer.  This week will be all about back to school shopping, school supply shopping and life organizing while we say good by to our "Late Great Life" and hello to our "Back to School Basics".

Of course, we left vacation with "baseball on the brain" and as soon as we came home, we visited the Cafe for fun and exciting stories about our current obsession~baseball!!  We found a slew of fun articles...check out "The Broken Window By-Law" by Lisa Cook and "Spitting on the Field" by Lisa Yakowicz.  Both articles give some really wild baseball information!