yearbook, blanket giveaways

 i attended the st. paul saints baseball game tonight. it was my 7th, and likely final, of the season. there was two giveaway items, fan appreciation night. it was a yearbook, and a blanket. the latter was sponsored by the minnesota corn-growers, also the sponsors of the foul poles. my second, the other was a blue 'security blanket' like what linus has. not too many saints yearbooks either, i know i have one from 2004, my first year in the twin cities. there was rain in the forecast so i brought a rain jacket, but didn't need it. the game was scoreless for a while. saints went ahead 1-0 at the end of the 5th with 'little ball' and louisville tied it 1-1 in the next inning. both teams got a 2-run home run in the 7th, to make it 3-3. it stayed that score until the 9th, when a failed pickoff move at 1st led to the runner going to 3rd, nobody out. the sacrifice fly was enough to score the winning run, so the saints won 4-3. i bought one item from the souvenir shop, a rubber gift card holder with the saints logo on it. i have one for my loyalty card for hy-vee, it works well for finding it when i need to 'grab and go'. 

i actually was double-booked today. in the morning i went to a benefit walk at the soccer field, first time there. so i took plenty of pictures of the venue. there was plenty of snack foods for this event. i ended up with 10 wrappers. some were small granola bars, 'kind minis', some were keto snack mix, and some were jack links beef steak. i won a small green towel from one of the sponsors, playing bean bag toss. and there were advocacy comic books. the event was over around midday, and i needed to get to the next place anyway. this was the post office, where i picked up 2 amazon orders, charlie brown books. i had lunch, slim jim beef jerky and old el paso refried beans, then laid down for a while. when i got up it was time to get to aldi for the weekly grocery order. not long after that it was time to get to the saints stadium. late in  the evening i went on a walk and found 35 cents.