October 1-6

The expected heavy rain from the south moved into the area overnight into Thursday, the night's three-game schedule at Reservoir Park was postponed. We rescheduled them for Monday the 12th, that gives us two straight Mondays of makeup games. Friday's weather was more of the same, after an afternoon haircut appointment I elected to stay in for the duration. Several of the evening's high school football games were affected by the weather, some were moved to Saturday or Monday while others had starting times changed to late-afternoon instead of the usual 7:00 kickoff. McCaskey was playing in Landisville against Hempfield, had the weather not been so unpleasant I would have gone but at my age the idea of standing on the sideline in the rain for three-plus hours isn't all that appealing anymore. There was a time when I would have tolerated it but those days are few and far between at this point. I was seeing Internet updates on the games all night long, JPM lost 39-29. They were trailing 33-7 in the third quarter but rallied to make the final score somewhat more respectable. There was little else going on the weekend outside of lunch with Jenny and her mother on Saturday. That storm system in the Caribbean they were watching ended up moving out to sea, areas in the southern part of the nation were hit hard but the northeast was spared the brunt of it. Stopped by the rink on Monday morning, the rink was surprisingly clean from the weekend (all of the wind was from the north and northeast which makes a difference). In the evening we played the makeup games from September 29, one west game and three crossovers. In the West the Killbots beat the Hammerheads, the crossovers saw H&F Tire over the Blues via shootout, the Oil Riggers over the Misfits and the UniLords over the Pub Dawgs. On Tuesday the format was the same, in the West game the Riot beat the Hammerheads. In the crossovers the Steamers won over H&F Tire, the UniLords downed the Misfits and the Blues defeated the Kings. Take care, thanks for reading