Category Archives: Phoenix Rising

Travels to Arizona for a little Spring Training

Phoenix Rising

Day at Cubs Park, with benefits

Rosters
Flip ponders the Padres lineups, especially No. 7 Middlebrooks, who we have a signed baseball from. Flip’s calculating his retirement plans.
field
Daddy Earl at the Cubs-Padres game today. Great time, even though Carl wound up working for more than two hours up in the mezzanine on a techie phone call. Great seats right behind home base, surrounded by Cubs fans. Go Padres!
Game on
Daddy Earl at the Cubs-Padres game today. Great time, even though Carl wound up working for more than two hours up in the mezzanine on a techie phone call. Great seats right behind home base, surrounded by Cubs fans. Go Padres!
Go padres
Flip at the Cubs-Padres game today. Great time, great seats. Good section-mates.
Chicago hot dog
The Chicago-style dog with all the fixins.
At the game
Daddy Earl enjoys his seat behind home plate and away from the sun.
beer guys
Flip sports our beer guy Mark’s signed and numbered baseball card. Collect and save!
Flip at the game
Photo bomb!
selfie for us
The family that plays together …
Go Seahawks?
Baseball is over for Flip. He’s ready for football with his new Seahawks helmet from Daddy Earl.
bunny wonder
St. Francis of Aflipsi. The animals are not afraid. Not sure what Flip thinks, though. Probably, “what’s the white stuff falling on my head?”
Ralph talks back
Not everyone wants to listen to Flip all night, so Ralph talks back at him, in his own language.

 

Phoenix Rising

Flip’s first Major League baseball game

Flip, Mr. Baseball
Flip grandstands on the San Diego baseball team outside the Peoria sports complex with the Padres vs. the Rockies at hand.
The boys and Flip
The boys enjoy the view before the game starts. Flip’s already a little sunburned.
The girls and Flip
The girls grin with Flip during the game. The Rockies won, 6-5, but it was a great game.
The boys
Here are our handsome escorts! Flip left to find a hot dog and a brew.

 

Phoenix Rising

Baggage to beverage and family in between

On the carousel
 Flip gets a ride after a long flight. Fortunately the bags came pretty quick and Debbie and Syvlia swooped  in and  delivered us to our final destination.
Dad, boychild, Flip and planes
David shares just one of more than 100 model airplanes, which are really handcrafted and to scale and freakin’ awesome. Flip’s a bit blown away and snuggles close to Carl.
Lovebirds
Lovebirds enjoying some dandy Mexican at Tia Rosa’s in Mesa. Flip is enchanted.
What a relief
After dinner and drinks, what a relief.
Flip's audition as a bird
In David and Jean’s backyard, Flip seizes the opportunity to sample some gourmet bird food, or so he thinks.
Flip's apertif
Well played, Flip! Well played.

 

Phoenix Rising

Dinner and a movie

Flip starts his trip with a stop at Humps in Clatskanie for dinner and a movie. Coming in the middle of “Outlaw Jose Wales,” Flip had the urge to eat a cow. It looks like his wish came true with the biggest chicken fried steak I have ever seen.