Tuesday, March 22, 2016
March 21-22
Spring officially arrived on Sunday but the following day was no indication of that whatsoever. It was remarkably chilly and windy, I did the usual Monday lunch at the mall. In the afternoon I was at the ballfield at McCaskey, the boys were hosting the York County School Of Technology in a preseason scrimmage. I took advantage of the opportunity to clean up the PA booth (which is in reality a glorified storage area), I'd be willing to bet that the tabletop in there hadn't been cleaned since the previous spring. The wind was howling out of the west-northwest (from the rear of the booth), with temperatures in the mid-40s being inside was the best place to be. JPM plays eleven of its twenty games at home, the regular season starts on Thursday the 24th at home against Reading High (it's deliciously ironic that the first game is against a school from the city that I once considered my home in pro baseball but that was a different lifetime). I stayed for about three innings then took my leave to go home for supper. In the evening we were at the street hockey rink at Reservoir Park, we had our captains meeting for the start of the spring season. There were ten teams represented but there are always those who get in at the last minute. The wind had not died down at all, I fired up the portable heater in the building in an effort to take a little chill off the bone. Tuesday was quiet save for the morning errand run but the next few days will be busy. Take care, thanks for reading.