March 3-6

The middle part of the week was largely quiet, a morning errand run on Tuesday was followed by Wednesday lunch with Jenny in Quarryville. We had not planned on doing lunch on this day but the forecast for Thursday was ominous and it was right on the money. It began to rain on Wednesday afternoon, I took the scorebook over to basketball practice since I was going to be absent from the game on Saturday. JPM opens the state tournament against Abington (the champion of District I), the game is at Cheltenham HS at 1:00 on Saturday afternoon. Since we are the number-eight seed from our district our opponent gets a home-territory advantage, Cheltenham is about three miles from Abington. In 2006 we opened states against a school from Philadelphia in a Philadelphia gym and won the game, maybe lightning can strike twice. The afternoon rain turned to snow overnight, by daybreak on Thursday it was WHITE. There were reports of accidents and early closings all over, Jenny called and said they couldn't get out the front door. I got as far as the front porch but no further because there was no reason to. The storm finally moved out in the evening hours, on Friday morning I got the car moved out, cleaned off and kept a haircut appointment (travel in the morning was of little concern, most of the main roads were clear). The morning newspaper had a story about the storm, they estimated that the city got better than eight inches while in Quarryville they got eleven (the southern part of the county always seems to get more, probably because it's largely rural). Spoke to Don in the afternoon, he said the night's indoor hockey schedule at the Nook was still on. This was the final night for the eight-week regular season, playoffs quarterfinals are on Friday the 20th. The Nook's Thursday activities were curtailed because of the weather, the court the league plays on is needed for other leagues on the 13th so hockey has a week off until the 20th. Take care, thanks for reading.