Got Bat.........I don't need your fancy ball...........

Monsoon. Jackie Robinson Day. 2012.

Okay, so we go to the beach as usual and toss the stick. On the way back, here's a really nice softball washed up at the edge of gentle waves. I've tried this before and once in a great while it works. Not today........

I grab a stick. A good sized one I don't think Monsoon will like. I toss the ball up a bit, smack it in hopes of enticing a chase, but Monsoon lunges, instead, for the stick in my hands..........

Back home, I break out my old wooden bat from who knows when. We go out into the backyard and again, I toss the newly found softball up a bit and hit it gently, urging Monsoon to chase the ball.......NO WAY.

She comes after the bat! Designated hitter perhaps?

We'll see if she learns to pull a ball up the third base line............