Today's High Temperature: 23 degrees
Current Temperature: 8 degrees
I stole today's title from the chorus of a Don Henley song about a woman, but I think it works here too. Temperatures are bitter cold at the moment, but forecasts call for 5o degree temperatures starting Saturday, and it is expected to hold for at least the next week. It will be over soon. Just a matter of time.
Danny had his good friend Thomas over after school today. It was so windy which made the frigid temperatures feel even colder. I had a hard time tying their skates. My fingers were numb! They skated for just under 2 hours. They kept in constant motion so they held up pretty well. Their cheeks stayed red long after they came in.
I have a walkie-talkie set that we take with us camping or on trips. We use them to keep tabs on the kids or keep in touch when we split into groups. Today I put one walkie-talkie, with volume on high, on the bench by the rink, and kept the other one inside with me in the kitchen. I would periodically click mine to see if they were ok. They would stop skating and look up at me in the window and give me the thumbs up. When they were done they called me and I went out to get them.
Current Temperature: 8 degrees
I stole today's title from the chorus of a Don Henley song about a woman, but I think it works here too. Temperatures are bitter cold at the moment, but forecasts call for 5o degree temperatures starting Saturday, and it is expected to hold for at least the next week. It will be over soon. Just a matter of time.
Danny had his good friend Thomas over after school today. It was so windy which made the frigid temperatures feel even colder. I had a hard time tying their skates. My fingers were numb! They skated for just under 2 hours. They kept in constant motion so they held up pretty well. Their cheeks stayed red long after they came in.
I have a walkie-talkie set that we take with us camping or on trips. We use them to keep tabs on the kids or keep in touch when we split into groups. Today I put one walkie-talkie, with volume on high, on the bench by the rink, and kept the other one inside with me in the kitchen. I would periodically click mine to see if they were ok. They would stop skating and look up at me in the window and give me the thumbs up. When they were done they called me and I went out to get them.
I am about to go out for a quick skate. I want to enjoy each one before it's over.
UPDATED: 10:40 pm.
Holy crap is it cold! I lasted a half hour.
I invented a new drill. It improves eye, hand, beer, stick coordination. Hold your stick in your strong hand, beer in your weak hand, and stickhandle with a puck around the ice, switching on the fly from skating backwards to forwards.
I remember one time as a kid watching Rick Middleton score a goal with only one hand on his stick on a break-a-way. He used one hand to hold off the defender and the other to make the goalie look foolish.
If my sister Kim is reading this in Switzerland..or whatever the country of the month is..., my question to you is this: When we would watch the Bruins play back in the day when we couldn't afford Levi's, we had a superstition: what did we use to do every time the Bruins scored a goal?
UPDATED: 10:40 pm.
Holy crap is it cold! I lasted a half hour.
I invented a new drill. It improves eye, hand, beer, stick coordination. Hold your stick in your strong hand, beer in your weak hand, and stickhandle with a puck around the ice, switching on the fly from skating backwards to forwards.
I remember one time as a kid watching Rick Middleton score a goal with only one hand on his stick on a break-a-way. He used one hand to hold off the defender and the other to make the goalie look foolish.
If my sister Kim is reading this in Switzerland..or whatever the country of the month is..., my question to you is this: When we would watch the Bruins play back in the day when we couldn't afford Levi's, we had a superstition: what did we use to do every time the Bruins scored a goal?
Let me tell you friends. It's flippin' cold out tonight. I stopped skating and I could feel the sweat on my back start to get cold. I love the sound of my skates crunching on the ice. The stars are bright, the moon is brighter, Debbie waved to me from our bedroom window, and my beer was a slushy. That to me is happiness.
Funny thing. Since I started doing this blog thing, I have agonized over spelling words wrong. I just noticed now that I have a spell check function. Wat a dumie.
Funny thing. Since I started doing this blog thing, I have agonized over spelling words wrong. I just noticed now that I have a spell check function. Wat a dumie.
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But of course I remember..I used to jump off the horrid plaid looking couch, and you would jump out of the reclining chair and we would high five. Or if we were lazy, we would just high five from our seated position, reaching across the gorge. Of course, my memory was never the best so if I am wrong, please correct me.
That's about right - As I recall though, I would spin in the chair and high-five you as I spun around. Very impressive though...and Mike O'Connel was your favorite player. Now he is the ex-GM that is despised.
No no, your great memory has its lapses...my favorite player was Barry Pederson #10. How could you forget that!!!!
Right you are...Wrong am I. Barry Pederson now works in the tv studio for B's games.
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