Word of the Day: Avulsion

Avulsion – a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another.

Or in this case a tearing of the time – space continuum, as 125 Broughton Ave in Hilda, SC, or at least the Post Office there, has vanished. Our second attempt to locate a postal facility in this micro town failed just as it did the first time. Maybe it is like Brigadoon and appears only one day every hundred years. I did take a picture of the next best thing though, the Town Hall. I won’t put it in the postal gallery with the other 10 we grabbed today though, just not kosher. Fittingly, there is a sign on the door saying the Town Hall is open the 2nd Saturday of the month from 8 AM to 12 noon.

Three quarters of the way through our Postal Safari today we stopped in St. George for lunch, Taco Bell. Two hard tacos for Donna and two soft tacos for Brian and we split a medium fruit punch.

Josh Becket of the FRS was pitching today. So far this year he has had 7 starts and has 7 wins, but something happened on the way to a record 8 straight. An avulsion on the right middle finger, leading to “irritation of the skin” lead to him being pulled from today’s game after the fourth inning. This is the team being cagey, Mr. Beckett missed several games last year because of a blister on his throwing hand. To me, no matter how you spin “avulsion on the right middle finger, leading to irritation of the skin”, it is a blister. Supposedly the early exit was a precaution to prevent an actual blister, we’ll see.