Sid The Kid

I see that Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins had a Gordie Howe Hat Trick last night against the Boston Bruins. For those who don't know- a Gordie Howe Hat Trick is a goal, an assist and a fight in one game. He did that and better. The Pens won the game in OT after blowing a 4 goal lead. I am always happy to see Ex UNH players do well. Ty Conklin was in net for the Pens having just been recalled from Wilkes-Barre.

I Don't Know Dean But I Am Happy To Be On His List

My grades were all posted this morning for my first semester. They are as follows:
Tech Math: A
Surveying:B+
Computer Apps(CAD): A-
Chemistry:B

That all equals out to a 3.53. As I said to Leigh this morning I haven't gotten all those grades on one report card since high school. So for the moment I am enjoying the feeling of being on the Dean's List. Now I just need to keep it up for 3 more semesters.

Thursday

Today is my last final. I was supposed to have my last final on Friday but our professor is offering it today as well. I did well enough in my math class to be exempt. Did I already write that in my last blog? Can't remember. Anyway I had an average of 90.2 in Tech math so I don't have to take the final. I am quite happy to get an A- in that class. It is worth 5 credit hours so it is big in the GPA. I am now in the library reviewing for my chem test. It has been a good semester. The workload for each class was at times overwhelming, but overall I kept up with all my homework and class assignments. I will let you all know the rest of my grades as I get them.
Tonight when I get home I will be opening the bottle of champagne I have been saving.

Finals Week

Hello to all my family and friends still out there. Been a very busy semester. I have finals this week. I hope to be able to write something about my semester once it is over. Two finals on Tuesday, one Wednesday and one Friday. Hopefully I did well enough on my last Tech Math exam that I will be exempt from the final. Otherwise that exam is on Thursday. My last exam of the week is in Chemistry. See you on the other side of my semester.

Go Cats Go!!

I am always happy to see the Wildcats win hockey games. But there is just something extra that I feel when they beat BU. They beat them last night 4-1 in BU's back yard. It was also Coach Umile's 400th college win. For those who don't know Jack Parker is the coach of BU. He is also a tremendous coach with a boatload of class. He had the PA announcer at the game announce that it was Umile's 400th win. Not something every home team coach would think to do for the opposing team.
Back in my UNH days our group used to sit right behind the opposing team's bench. We were very vocal and at times obnoxious. I am reminded of one of our favorite cheers.
"Lets go Blue....Screw BU!" In fact we liked that cheer so much we didn't just chant that when BU was in town. We used to pull that one out all the time. Didn't matter who the Cats were playing.

So GO CATS GO!!!

Birthday Greetings

A big shout out to ZACK!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you enjoy your day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY..........

World Series Winner

I have finally figured out who will win the World Series. I can't believe I didn't realize this before. Must be that I have been too busy at school to take the time to see this obvious fact. For those of you who didn't know I have had this whole week off from school. But that might be another blog another time. Back to my prediction. It is really quite simple once you look at where the next Frozen Four is going to be. Last year we went to St. Louis. Cardinals won the World Series. Hmmmmmm. I am going to predict that the Rockies will win it all based on this very scientific study I have just finished. Actually this thought came to me a couple of days ago but I had to do extensive research to prove my hypothesis.
Fact or Baloney? You be the judge.

Autumn in Vermont

I took some pictures around the house the other day to share with everyone.



It was a good winter squash year.


We only got 3 pumpkins from our five plants. I only let one pumpkin grow per plant hoping to get giant pumpkins. They were slow germinating which led to us getting only BIG pumpkins as opposed to giant ones.







These shots were looking down the driveway towards the out front veggie garden. Corn, onions, potatoes, squashes, kale, beans, leeks, and sunflowers grew in this garden.

We are rapidly approaching "peak foliage" in our part of the world. The highways and byways and even the little dirt roads are crowded with leaf peepers taking in the beauty of the change of seasons.

Putting the "Civil" in Civil Engineering

Our freshman class of civil engineers went on an outing today. (You might want to check out Johhny the Bobblehead's blog.) There were about 18 of us that went. It was a lab for one of our courses. Called Freshman Orientation for Civil Engineers. We went to Montague CG in Randolph VT. Our professor feels it is important for us to learn and understand golf as it is a very important part of doing business. Plus he wanted us to learn how to be civil on the golf course.

Website is www.montaguegolf.com

Very nice course. I hadn't been golfing in several years so it was fun to get back out and hit a few slices, a couple of trees and the green actually. We had a shotgun start and played best ball. Our team scored about 42 I think. I wasn't the scorekeeper. I just provided the entertainment for my teammates. Fortunately for several of us our math class had been cancelled for today. Maybe even more fortunate for our math professor!!! She might not have thought it was very civil of us to come to class after consuming several carbonated malt beverages.

Wondering about the weather

So Lynn what are we supposed to do for your kids?

Birthday greetings....

Happy Birthday to my big sis Lynn. She's pretty old. Maybe I should have used a larger font.

Hope you don't have to do your schoolwork today.
Too bad the WIldcats aren't playing at home today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNN!!!!!

Scrolled

I just happened to scroll down my own post to see what was there. As you may or may not have noticed I have some advertising on my page. Funny that the ad has that other Michael Jackson listed. The one who used to be a cute little member of the Jackson Five. Not really sure what happened to that guy but he can't hold a beer mug to the Michael Jackson I wrote about in my last post.

RIP Michael Jackson

Hello Everyone,

The RIP is not for the past memeber of the Jackson Five but instead someone much more important. He WAS the BEER HUNTER. He knew everything there was to be known about beer. As he lay on his deathbed his parting words were something about one regret that he never had the chance to taste the beermaker's homebrews. And with that he passed.
If you want to read a bit about him check out this link.

http://www.beertown.org/michaeljackson/

So those of you that indulge in this wonderful beverage please hoist your next one and toast Michael Jackson.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14124170&ft=1&f=1021

You can also check ou this bit that was on NPR on Sept 2nd.

http://www.allaboutbeer.com/

One last site you can check out.

Good Luck

I say to the beermaker today. He is some steeplechase type race in Meeteetse today. I hope he has fun and finishes the event.

School

I have now been to four days of classes. So far so good. But then again we have only had one quiz. I did manage to get 100 on my very first quiz of this semester. Hope I can keep up some semblence to that. I have a new desktop computer now from Dell. It is the inspiron 1520. Very nice but I have not been a pc guy ever. I am having some trouble getting used to the differences. Right click....what the f is that all about? I know I will get used to this beast and learn to love it but right now it is very foreign to me. Sorry that I am not putting out very many blogs for all you allt for me.(that would be southern talk) to read but I won't be able to do much about that.

The homework is already being piled up but so far I am wading through it. Lots of reading to do also. Damn my brain isn't used to this much thinking. But I do like it. I am really glad I decided to do this. There will be days (daze?) when I might question my sanity about this going to college thing but I know I will be rewarded in the end. Plus the support I am getting from Leigh is great. She was a grad student several years ago so she knows what is happening to me. One of the things I don't like about being away from home all day is that many of my jobs at home are now turning in Leigh's jobs. She has to work all day too so I feel a little bit bad when she does my chores. I am also working about 15 hours a week too. Mind you none of this is whining or complaing just merely stating facts. I am very lucky to have a wife who is so supportive of my new goals in life.

I hope everyone is doing great. Keep on blogging so I can keep up with all you are doing.

On a side note now. Hey Man Computer World aka Mikey get it together dude. How about a few posts?

Chilly Start

I noticed when I went outside this morning that there was a bit more of a chill than we have had since probably last May. As I walked to the barn to feed the horses and chickens I noticed that there was frost on the windrows from where I had been mowing with the tractor yesterday. WhenI got back to the house I looked at the thermometer and sure enough---36 degrees. What the frost is up with that? I heard no warnings that it might get cold last night. I suppose the real test of how cold it was last night is to look at the basil. And it is fine. So we had very scattered frost last night. We have only just gotten our first few red tomatoes. It can't frost yet. Just had corn last night. Still needed a few more days on the stalk but I was getting impatient.

Yesterday we did some harvesting in the bean and broccoli rows. Leigh froze about 12 quarts of yellow beans and I froze 10 quarts of broccoli. We now have over 50 qts of beans, mostly green, and about 40 qts of broccoli in our new upright freezer. Plus we have about a dozen quarts of raspberries. Oh we have a few qts of peas too. Our old freezer was a small, old(35 years), chest freezer. Now we have a new energy efficient 17 cu ft frost free freezer.

What to wear on my first day of school....

I remember back a few decades ago when it was the first day of school. We would always get our clothes out the night before. Well we did it for a few years but of course MCW and beermaker stopped that long before Lynn and I did. But I just happened to think about that as tonight is back to school eve for me. I am very nervous about this. I want to do really well. I want to get great grades. I don't question my ability to do this as I proved to myself durint the Summer Bridge that I am able to do the work. I think I am nervous because it is a new beginning. Entering into unknown areas. I don't think my being nervous is a bad thing. I think it is a very common thing. I will try to keep you up to date on my progress.

I was going to take a picture of the boys in my closet deciding for me what to wear tomorrow but I just don't have the energy right now to do it. So just imagine that photo is included in this post.

Happy Birthday Mom.....Part 2

Hello All,

I was a little quick on the draw on my first birthday post.

I hope you have a great day today Mom as you enter into your eighth decade. WOW....you are going to catch Sudsy if you keep up this rate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from all your Vermont friends and relatives.

Happy Birthday Mom!!

What the ....part 2

I am going to send a letter to the NCAA to see if I can find out why I didn't get tickets this year. I hope they respond to my query.

Summer Bridge

It went by even faster than I thought it would. My summer bridge program ended today. All we had today was a ten minute meeting with the physics and math professors. I had a good chat with them. For the second week in a row I got 100% on my end of the week math tests. My physics test from two weeks ago was 70%. Third highest in our small class. I am happy to report that on my test this week I received a 78%. Highest grade in the class. Nice way to close out the program. I am really happy I took this bridge program. It will be nice to have some other classes such as Surveying and CAD in addition to Chemistry and Tech Math.

Good to be past the first hurdle.

What the......

How could the NCAA Ice Hockey selection process do this to me? After 3 successful years of going to the Frozen Four I was denied tickets this year. I got my notice in the mail today. So of course I called the beermaker immediately to tell him of my woes. All we could figure was that people who were higher on the list (that is more than 3 FFs to their credit) who had not gone in the past decided to go this year. I have no other explanation. Unless the beermaker and Ray got luckier than I, we will be buying our FF tickets this year from eBay.

Damn.....or as Frank would say "Holy Crap"

gotta get back to my studying.

Grades Update

I am happy to report that I got an 83 % on my Tech Math test from last week. Like I said the other day...Physics not so good. I only scored a 46%. But as my teacher was quick to point out I was the 5th highest grade in the class. Mind you there are only 10 of us in the class. But he said I would get a solid C on the test using the scale. So 4 people did better but 5 did worse. All in all I feel pretty good about my first week back hitting the books. Next update probably won't be until next week. Hope you all have a great week.

I just love that photo of our dog Leo. Didn't it make you all either laugh or smile when you saw him with his doggles on?

My Dog Is Cool...

This is our dog Leo. He is one cool dog. He likes to ride around wearing his "doggles." That way he can stick his head out the window as we zoom down the road not having to worry about the occasional bug or dirt particles that might get into his eyes.
When I was driving home from school the other day I heard a story on the radio about dogs and being in cars in the hot weather. They were just re-iterating how bad it is to leave your pup in your car. They gave a website that you can go to to see if it is too hot in your area that day to safely bring your favorite pup along for the ride. All you have to do is enter your zip code and they do the rest. You should check it out.

www.mydogiscool.com

Same Boat

Hello Everyone. I feel like I have gotten into the same boat as the breadmaker.
I think I won't be posting many if any blogs for the next few weeks while I am
doing my Summer Bridge program at Vermont Tech. I have 2 hours of Tech
Math and Physics each day. This past week I came home each day and spent
about 4 hours on my homework. I also just got a job working in a hardware/feed
store in the Northfield. Northfield is just over the mountain from our house.
About a 15 minute ride to work. I will be working there on Saturday and Sunday.
School was very hard for me this first week. I haven't had to think like that in
30 years!! I had 4 quizzes and 2 tests this week. I did okay on the quizzes
but not sure about the tests as they were on Friday. My math test was pretty good.
The physics test not so good.

Heavy Rain Today....

We had some heavy rain come through today about noon time. We got almost 2"of rain in about 45 minutes. The pictures are just some shots of the veggie garden near the house to show how much rain there was. There was also some hail. It was a little bit larger than a pea. It did no damage to any of the veggie crops. The beans are laying on the ground right now but I think they will bounce back up.

Green River Reservoir

Although the Leo thought it would be a great idea for him to come along on our canoe trip we decided that it would be better for him to stay home. I couldn't imagine those two in a canoe on dry land never mind on water.





Cully was really leaning towards going canoeing but once again we just had to say no.
I couldn't imagine those two in a canoe on dry land never mind on water.




We had just bought a new rack to put on my car. For those who don't know I am no longer a truck owner. I have been driving this 2005 Subaru since last September. I really like the car but I do miss being up higher when I drive. Anyhow back to the story. We are the fortunate owners of a nice canoe. Leigh's Mom gave it to us last year. We went up to the Waterbury reservoir a couple of times but never any further than that. It is about a 20 minute ride from our house. So this year with the different car we needed a rack. I put the rack on the car Thursday night. Very simple to put on. Then on Friday morning we were all ready to go on an adventure.




We decided that we would go to Green River Reservoir a little bit north of us. As you can see my able copilot was all ready to go.



It took us about an hour to get there. we arrived about 9:00 a.m. There was only one other person who had signed the sheet that day. It was a beautiful day. We paddled around the reservoir for about three hours. We only saw a couple of other boats for most of the time we were out there. When we got back to the boat launch area around noon there were quite a few people and their assorted non-motorized boats. Most of them looked like they would be camping for the weekend. We were quite happy that we didn't have to see them while we were out paddling around.

We had a great time. We decided not to bring Leigh's camera with us just in case it got wet. It made us say we need to buy a case for it so we can bring it with us. That is why there are no photos from our trip included here today. As we were first setting out we heard some loons calling back and forth to each other. It reminded me so much of those early days at Bow Lake when I would be out rowing in my rowboat. Man we had fun when we were kids at Bow Lake. I'm sure my siblings would agree with me. We paddled past a couple of camp sites that were occupied but other than that we saw no one. The water was smooth. No breeze at all. Very easy paddling. As we paddled along there was absolutely no noise at all. Other than our paddles dipping into the water we heard nothing. Except perhaps the deer flies that would buzz us any time we got close to land. At one point during our paddle we had gone up the narrow part-about 40 feet and decreasing for about 2 miles until you reached a beaver's dam- and the deer flies were thick. I would guess I saw 15 buzzing around Leigh's head as we were slowly paddling up this part of the reservoir. It was the same around my head. The biggest difference being Leigh had remembered to bring her hat with her. Ever since I got my haircut I don't wear a hat as much as I used to. Like never. It was very Everglade like as we paddled toward the dam. We had read a guide book about the reservoir before we went so we knew the dam was coming. Small 3-4' diameter tufts of grasses sticking up from the earth surrounded by water. Marsh like. Moose habitat. But alas we saw no moose. But we did see a great blue heron as we approached the beaver dam.
It stayed in place until we about 15' away from it. Then it very slowly took off flying about 30 yards downstream. We saw the heron for most of our return trip out of the end of the reservoir. About 15 minutes. It was really cool the way he flew just ahead of us a couple of times to get away from us. Not very far. But just far enough. We also saw some canadian geese with their babies. About 8 little geese swimming along.

However the best thing we saw was the mother loon with one baby on her back and the other practically glued to her side. We were close to the loon designated area (I wasn't aware that loons could read signs. Apparently this one couldn't either as she was not in her designated area.) when we saw a loon about 30 yards straight in front of us. So we just kept on paddling. I kept waiting for the loon to dive. But it didn't. Then Leigh, with the aid of the binoculars, saw that it had babies with it. We then swung wide of them. She let out a couple of warning cries as we went past her. The small ones were very fuzzy and new looking. It would have been very good to have had the camera at that point.

When we were rounding the island that was about 300 yards from the launch area we hit a very brisk wind. The last few hundred yards were an effort. The breeze as they say, (whoever they are) came out of nowhere, to create some small white caps as we finished out our trip to on Green Mountain Reservoir. We will go back there again this summer for some more paddling. Leigh had packed us a nice lunch to have but we were back before it was time for lunch. But also happy to have missed all those other people who had been arriving.

Here is a link if you want read a little bit about the Green Mtn. Reservoir.

http://www.vtstateparks.com/htm/grriver.cfm

What Up Mom?

Mom have you posted anything yet?

PTI Rocks

I tuned in PTI tonight to see if perhaps Tony and Wilbon would mention Gary's birthday today. Well it was Wilbon on the road and Bob Ryan sitting in the studio in place of Tony. It was probably better it was Bob Ryan as he knows some New England sports. Here is the conversation as I heard it.
Wilbon: Say Bob we want to wish a happy 54th birthday to Gary Warner of Meeteetse Wyoming.
Bob: I remember him well Wilbon. It was the mid 1970s in Lewiston Maine. He was a punter for Bates College. They were a real powerhouse back then.
Wilbon: What? What? What are you talking about? Bates College a powerhouse? Powderpuffs maybe, but powerhouse?
Bob: You better believe it Wilbon. All the other top D1 teams were afraid to play them.
Wilbon: I suppose you are right. Anyway Happy Birthday Gary.

Birthday Wishes

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Beermaker. Hope you have a great weekend at Red Rocks.

Johnny Has His Own Blog

Quite pleased to announce that over the weekend we were able to come to contract terms with Dr. Johnny. His demands regarding travel percs were a little bit outrageous but we finally were able to figure out who would actually accumulate the air miles. He is now doing (mostly photos of himself) a blog. Hope you enjoy it.

This photo is Karen and Gary in Yellowstone in 2006. Old Faithful is in the background.

Memories

I don't know if any of you do this, but Leigh and I try to do this fairly often. As a day comes to a close and we are lying in bed, close to sleep, Leigh and I try to tell each other a memory from sometime earlier in our lives. If you don't ever do this you should try it. You just say, "Hey I have a memory to share." And away you go. Learning something about your partner that you may not have known before.
Well today I was out stacking some wood. I was listening to Vt. Public Radio while "All Things Considered" was on. I can recall, in Virginia, Zack and Jack singing the theme song to that show with just a slight twist on the words. They would sing "all things considered, all things considered, all things considered and some things not". I am not really sure if there are words associated with that theme song. If there were really no words to their theme it is too bad they didn't happen to call us in Hightown and we could have given them those lyrics. I found none at the NPR website. Does the beermaker or anonymous remember that they used to sing that song? Another memory that I had at about the same time was that, (that is while I was stacking wood) about the same time,(that being Zack's age) was of Zack going absolutely WILD when the "Barney Miller" theme song would come on the TV. I am talking WILD. And they say white boys can't dance??? Well they never saw Zack when that song was played. He was possessed by that song. Not the words but the instrumental part. I am fairly sure that the previously mentioned beermaker and anonymous will remember Zack and that particular memory of mine. I would bet that if Jenny were to play that song she might see a side of Zack she didn't know existed!!!

I also happened to think about the beermaker just rocking in the rocking chair at breakneck speed with then baby Cody when he use to cry. It always amazed me at how fast he could get that chair going. Perhaps we should have put him on the grid to power our house.

Hope this entry has prompted the rest of you to think back on some memories of your own.

Vacations

So who is coming East this Summer? Need to make sure I will see whoever ventures this far (or further) East.

Wish

Just wanted to wish Amy a Happy birthday for May 14th. Hope you had a great weekend leading up to your birthday. There are some readers out there that remember when you were born....

One More (or more) Reason To Love Hockey...

I really love hockey. You all know that. I just love hockey. I love to play. I love to watch. Truly a lifelong passion for me. Today I watched the Sabres beat the Rangers. I do enjoy seeing the Rangers lose. Almost as much I enjoy seeing the Red Wings lose. But there were two things that I really liked as the game ended. Well of course actually three. First the Rangers lost!!!!!
The next thing is the handshake after a series ends. I just think that is one of the greatest shows of sportsmanship there is in any sport. I have been on both ends of that handshake. I have been the winner and also the loser. Much more fun to be the winner. The other thing I liked was the Rangers' salute to their fans when the game was over. It is a very European way to end a hockey game.

New Computer

what do I need to do to go about finding out about the Dell college student program?

Tilling

Oh what a great afternoon I had. First my weekly staff meeting was cancelled. One might think that would be enough to create a banner day. But no it got even better when I fired up the Troy-Bilt, on the second pull no less after a Winter of inactivity, and was able to till the smaller of my three veggie garden spaces. I just love the look and smell of a freshly turned over garden. Guess that is why I am Gardenboy!!!
One a sort of negative note. I couldn't get that lazy farm boy Johnny to come and get the stones out of the garden space after I had tilled. No fresh peas for him.

Tags or Plates

I just happened to think of this as I was driving home from school today. Kind of a silly subject but one I do think about as I drive to different parts of our country. Living in a tourist area affords us the opportunity to see a lot of different license plates. I was wondering if any of you have these same random thoughts about license plates? There are several states' plates that when I see them I get a good feeling. Not that this is my complete list but here are a few. Vermont, Alaska, Wyoming, Virginia, Colorado, and North Dakota. Some of the states that don't give me such a warm and fuzzy feeling are (far and away my number 1) New Jersey, then Massachusetts, Connecticut, Texas, New York and well New Jersey again.

I've Been In Hockey Ever Since I Can Remember....

Suppose I ought to tell you where I have been lately. Nowhere actually. One of our computers was in the shop for repairs. That would be Leigh's computer. Hers is newer than mine so I use hers when I post things on this blog. Mine is a year or so older and is not really very technologically savvy anymore. The snow has finally left all parts of our yard and the grass is turning green. My cold frame is growing rather nicely. I put some lettuce, spinach, and mesclun mix in there. I got off to a rather late start this year as I was lazy last Fall and didn't set up my cold frame for the Spring. That left me several weeks behind where I should have been. I am hoping to be eating some greens out of there in 2 weeks.

We have seven more weeks of school. I know the teachers are all looking forward to the end as much as the students are. I suppose that when you are student you never really think about that aspect of school. Once school is over I will have about 4 weeks before I start my summer program at Vermont Tech. That program starts on July 15th. It will be 5 days/week for 4 weeks. It leads right up to the first day of school in August. Wait a minute some of you might be thinking. The last we heard you had decided to put off going to school this Fall. This is true. But after some deliberations we have decided to just bite the bullet and go for it. I am trying to get some student loans to cover my expenses. I don't think it will be a problem to get the loans. I am going to try to get some grants also. They are nice as you don't have to pay them back. This summer my school days will be 2 hours of math, then 2 hours of physics followed by 2 hours of language arts. So it will be 8-4:30 each day. Vermont Tech (aka VTC) is about 35 miles from our house. Most of the drive is down Rte 89 so it will be an easy commute. My major will be Civil Engineering. I need to buy a new laptop before I start as well as some fancy calculator for the math courses. I am looking at the Dell line. Right now they are having a 25% off sale until the end of May. I will more than likely get a Dell. The guy who is in charge of the CE program recommended I get a Dell and told me all the stuff I should make sure it has. I have no idea what Bluetooth is but it is on his list.

I have been toying with the idea of starting another blog. Actually Johnny and I have been discussing it as he feels I don't give him enough press on my Gardenboy blog. I did have to remind him that he really isn't a very accomplished typist. Not a problem he retorted I just want pictures. So I will keep you posted on the progress of that idea.

And I have been in hockey ever since I can remember....

The Only Thing I Don't Like About Hockey Is The Off Season

My journey to get to St. Louis was an effort. But of course worth every second of it. I had 3 hours lay-over time in Philly. I figured I would get to know the Philly airport better than Tom Hanks in Terminal. It all started so innocently in Burlington. I noticed as soon as I got out of the car that my plane was delayed by 15 minutes. Shouldn't be a problem I thought to myself. Oh how could I have been so wrong? The reason we had a delay was because the flight crew had arrived late the previous evening so they had to have their 8 hours off. No big problem. Our plane sat onthe runway in Burlington for almost 3 hours. Partofthe delay was the Philly airport was closed for a short while. Enough to mess up my easy travel day. My flight from Philly to St Louis was scheduled to be at 11:25. My plane landed at 10:55. I was in row 22 on a plane with 22 rows. I didn't get off the plane until 11:10. I ran from one end of the airport to the other. A long run in Philly. I was the last person on the plane. And then we took off. I was fairly certain that my suitcase was not running as fast as I was. And so it goes. My suitcase was delivered the next day. After that all I had was fun. We got to see 3 great hockey games. Each better than the one before. The seats we had this year were very good. We were in the front row of the balconey. Plus ESPN was doing interviews right behind us in-between periods. They asked us to sit down while they were on air. I would guess we were showing up in their camera shots. They wanted to have a clear shot of the ice behind them. Not our mugs.

I will write more later. There is just so much to remember.

More To Follow...

Right now I would encourage you to click on the link called Clark, The Goalie.

I will be back with my thoughts on the FF on Thursday.

St Louis

Hello....see you in St. Louis. Hope everyone's air travel is easy. See you at the baggage claim area. I believe my plane arrives in from Philly at 12:56. Then it will be time for some local brew pub action.

Everything I learned, I learned from Sudsy.

Johnny in Rome

I ALWAYS want UNH to be one the teams that we get to see at the Frozen Four. I understand why Zack made the comment he made about it possibly being better for certain fans (read rabid fans) to not have their favorite team at the FF. After he gets a few more years of being a Wildcat supporter he will understand the need to have them at the FF. Certain fans have been cheering for UNH hockey for more than 30 years. Some fans were even lucky enough to have seen UNH play in the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit in the National Semi-Finals. Twice. 1977. 1979. Back when these fans were in college there was no Frozen Four as it is known today. I still reme, er I mean certain fans remember, that semi-final game in '77. Game tied at 3. Overtime. Puck deep in Wildcat end. Face-off to the left of the 'Cat goalie, Dan Magnarelli. Ref drops puck. Puck never hits the ice as the Wisconsin center iceman hits it out of mid air over Mag's shoulder. Game over. 4-3. What a letdown.


Oh wait back to the comment. I must admit I will be more relaxed with the 'Cats not playing in St. Louis. Speaking of which I must admit to something I screwed up on for our FF experience this year. I didn't get us as close to the arena as I strive to be.
I realized yesterday that there is a Hyatt right there at the rink. I just don't know how I missed that. I promise to do better next year. Last year was really great being just about 1/2 block from the rink. Somehow I bet we will muddle our way through this.
What we want the most is 3 great hockey games. I must tell you that I will be cheering for the Hockey East teams. I find it very difficult to do. Hard to cheer for the teams you have been cheering against all year when UNH was involved. Not to mention, but oh I must, one of my favorite cheers from going to UNH games--"Let's go Blue, Screw B.U." Of course there will be an exception to my Hockey East statement. I just love those Fightin' Sioux!!!!

Photo Order

In my last photo post the images did not show up the way the preview had indicated they would. So it starts with Tom and Erica, then me, and so on.

Just Wanted To Share Some Photos

Scottrade Center Section 329 Row A Seats 1-4 Front row balcony behind the net. I think we will like these seats.

Johnny Relaxes In Italy

Jeff in Venice 2006

Traditions

Traditions

I have been looking over the different options you can
have when doing a blog. I have made a couple of
changes to my page already. As I get everyone's blog
address I will add it to my links as I noticed Cody
and Maggie did.

Hard to believe Spring has sprung. We got about 14 inches of
snow over the weekend. Leigh and I went XC skiing on
Sunday. We bought passes at a local touring place in
December. Leigh has been more times than me. I would
guess she has been between 40-50 times. I guess I
have been about 30. I have less than her because she
would ski on days that I had hockey. I usually
skipped skiing on hockey days. But now I have ended
all 3 of my hockey leagues.

I must admit that my main focus right now is going to
the Frozen Four with Gary, Zack and Cody. This year
the FF is in St Louis. I hope UNH is able to win 2
hockey games this weekend so they too will be in St.
Louis playing for the National Championship. We are
turning this gathering of Warner boys into a family
tradition. Gary and I have done it the past couple of
years. It was decided that Co and Zack needed to get
in on the fun. So we invited them along. Plus they
are both old enough to enjoy, legally, a nice brew pub
beer. I'm sure we will all have a story to tell and
pictures to post when we all get back from the FF.
For those who don't know we will be in St Louis from
Wed April 4 through Sunday April 8. The NCAA sent me
a letter last week telling me they would be sending
out tickets this week for the games. I suppose they
probable sent Gary the same letter.

Go Cats Go!!!!!

Hope

I suppose I will start this the way many people dive into something new.....I don't know if this is going to work or not.