A Ride, a Wedding, and a Win

There is a ribbon around the front handlebars and stem of our tandem. It was left over from our wedding. Our plan was to ride the tandem home from our wedding, suitably bedecked. Alas, owing to the calamité at the wedding, this excursion never happened. But we finally got to ride the tandem to and from a wedding today. This was for our friends Andrea and Steve, who got married out on Putah Creek Road at the Center for Land-Based Learning farm. This is an educational farm and walnut orchard dedicated to teaching about wildlife-friendly and sustainable agriculture. All had a good time at the wedding, and the food was excellent, catered by the happily-named Magpie Caterers of Sacramento, whose t-shirts Pica was coveting.

Another auspicious event occurred today — the Giants broke up an eight-game losing streak with a win at home today in extra innings against the Yankees. We were following the game by radio on the ride out to the farm, and the Giants were down 4-1. Not so good. After the ceremony, having found a spot at one of the reception picnic tables, we started following the game again, joined by our baseball co-conspirator Barbara. The game was tied 5-5 going into the bottom of the 9th. The Giants were in fact leading 5-4 at the top of the ninth, but the Giants gave up a mammoth home run to Alex Rodriguez. It was not until the bottom of the 13th that the Giants won on a squib hit by rookie Nate Schierholtz. Barbara let out a whoop, and a fine day was made complete.