Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone in which nothing much happens. You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

I write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheheim.

We are bringing you an encore episode tonight, meaning that this story originally aired at some

point in the past. It could have been recorded with different equipment in a different location and since I'm a person and not a computer

I sometimes sound just slightly different, but the stories are always soothing and family-friendly,

and our wishes for you are always deep-rassed and sweet dreams.

Now, I have a story to tell you,

and the story is simple, without much action, but full of relaxing detail.

Our minds race, you know this. And this story is a way to move your mind off the expressway and

onto an exit ramp toward a serene resting spot.

I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

If you find that you are still awake at the end of the second telling, don't worry.

Just take yourself back through any of the details of the story that you remember.

This works well if you wake in the middle of the night.

Use the details to get right back on the exit ramp and before you know it you'll be drifting

off to peaceful sleep.

Our story tonight is called In The Bleachers.

And it's a story about a game watched on a crisp fall evening. It's also about pumpkins on doorsteps.

Flannel shirts from the back of the closet, and remembering that there are lots of ways

to grow.

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