October 7-10

Monday morning at the bank and the lawyer, it was a matter involving the estate account which was satisfactorily resolved. We had planned on a night of makeup games at the rink but the weather once again was uncooperative. A front was approaching from the southwest in late afternoon, it was expected to arrive right around the time we would have started. Don and I agreed to postpone although the rain had not yet arrived, some of the captains kidded about it but there were no serious objections since just about everybody knew the forecast was bleak. It proved to be the right decision, it started to rain shortly before 6:00 and continued for most of the evening. The games were reset for Monday the 14th as they now become makeups of makeups. Tuesday was a much brighter day, I was at the rink in the afternoon for some much-needed prelim cleanup work. In the evening we played for the first time in a week, winners were the Killbots over the Owls, the Misfits over Dutchmaid, NTS over the Trashers and Risky Business over the Hammerheads via OT shootout. Jenny and I had midweek lunch together on Wednesday, later in the afternoon I was at McCaskey. The boys soccer team was playing its final home game which is annually played in the stadium to make use of the PA for Senior Night activities. The head coach is a guy I've known a long time time, his name is Adam Wood. Woody used to play in the dek hockey league and for the past few years he has also worked with the Royals as a video/analytics coach so I see him quite often at the Arena as well. The day began at 5:00 with the JV game (JPM lost 1-0), after that we did the Senior night recognition. The varsity game brought out the cheerleaders, the band and an enthusiastic crowd, in many ways it reminded me of the football program's better days. JPM won the varsity game 2-0, scoring both goals in the first half. On Thursday we reached the midpoint of dek hockey season with night #7 featuring the rematches from opening night in September. Victorious on this night were Risky Business over the Owls, the Killbots over Dutchmaid, NTS over the Misfits and the Trashers over the Hammerheads. Four weeks are in the books and we're only one night behind in terms of makeups, that's a far cry from the Fall '18 season when it seemed like it rained more often than we played. Take care, thanks for reading.