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Scratchings in the Dirt

Happy Easter!

How can you tell that I have a million things to do?  By the fact that I am blogging on the morning of Good Friday, with a house to clean, bookwork to finish, windows to wash,  suitcases to pack, food to purchase and prepare, and seven people coming for lunch on Sunday.  But I’d rather

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Hitting the Reality Wall…

…sometimes called “Davidson”.  The Midgets went down hard to the Davidson Huskies this weekend.  The first game wasn’t too bad, just 3 – 1 for them.  (Stephen assisted the goal!)  Our boys played well (Adam even got a shift!)  but they just couldn’t keep up the pace into the third period.  Not that that bothered

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We won!!

The Midgets won the Provincial Northern Final series!  It was an amazing game Saturday night. There must have been 500 people in the old barn.  What a night!  Arborfield was up 2 goals from the first game, and they scored early in the game to put them up by three.  But the Thunder turned on

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On a Bus Heading North

Adam, Stephen, and I , and 40 other hockey-crazed people, hopped on a charter bus yesterday headed for Arborfield, a village of 200 people about about half-an-hour northeast of Tisdale.  Yep, you’re right, that would make it a five-hour drive from Kerrobert.  The Midgets played Game 1 of the Provincial semi-finals.  They lost.  They gave

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Meanwhile, back at Hockey Central…

I’m getting old.  The cold wind just cut right through me yesterday, prompting an outburst along the lines of “I wish I was in Africa right now!!”.   I even got a chill at the rink in Paradise Hill on Saturday, and that is unusual for me! And speaking of the Paradise Hill arena (ha,

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