On Memorial Day you really can't do better than Ray Charles at his absolute best. Here's his outstanding arrangement of America the Beautiful :

O beautiful, for heroes proved

In liberating strife,

Who more than self their country loved

And mercy more than life!

America! America! May God thy gold refine,

Till all success be nobleness, and ev'ry gain divine!

We have nice weather here at Berea-Rose for this long weekend. Lots of baseball last week -- right up until Saturday's mid-day game out on the hot sun at Groza field. Alane got a sunburn but Cookie's team picked up a win. He even got a hit! Mojo had a practice session over at the other field, and we could have gotten him there following Cookie's game but everyone was over-heated from having been in the sun that long -- especially Mojo himself (who had been at the playground most of the time).

I gotta get some baseball pictures posted here...