Sports
Time To Break Out The Snowboard
Ok now that the winter weather has started blessing us with a little snow I guess its time to break out the snowboard and cross country skis. My daughter and her boyfriend went to a northern michigan ski resort last weekend and tackled the slopes for the first time this year. It was my daughter’s first time trying out her luck at snowboarding and she had a ball. Now she seem’s to think I have to go. Can you imagine it a 40 year old fat man trying to stand up on a slick snowboard racing down a hill completely out of control. I bet that video will make it too #1 on Youtube. Anyway I decided I would take her, my wife and other kids out in the next week or so and try our hand at snowboarding. Back in the day I used to be quite skilled on downhill skis and hopefully this will be like riding a bike. I’m sure i’ll probably break my leg, arm or other body part but heck why do we have insurance if were not going to use it. Just to let you know I did go out and buy a cheap burton snowboard off of my favorite auction site and I’m anxiously awaiting its arrival. I figured if I’m going to get killed at least I might as well get killed with my own snowboard. I’ll update you from the hospital to let you know how my snowboarding adventure goes.
Can’t Wait Until Spring Fishing
Man I hate winter already. It’s just got started and im already getting the winter blues. Worst part of this time of year is that I can’t hit my favorite fishing holes. The bass boat has been put into storage, the rods and reels stored in the garage and now its the waiting game. I know many up north like to go ice fishing but for the life of me I can’t understand sitting on the ice freezing my tail off to catch a few fish like a polar bear. With nothing to do I’ve turned my focus to reparing my old rods, reels and lures to get them ready for spring. Maybe someone will buy me some new fishing gear for Christams, but if not I’m sure I can find some good clearance fishing gear this time of year. I’ll also spend a lot of time going through my tape library and catching up on all the fishing show’s ive missed over the summer. I probably have 80 hours of bass fishing show, tournaments and other fishing related videos to watch in my spare time. Thank god for Tivo and the internet. Maybe I’ll spend some time planning my fly fishing vacation for next year.
What Did I Get Myself Into
I went to our local little league association meeting last night to meet with other coaches and parents to discuss this upcoming little league season. Little did I know that there was going to be an officer’s election taking place. Somehow I ended up getting voted in as the president of our little league association this year. After the meeting I met with the previous officers of the little league and was handed an inventory list for all the equipment that our teams have. It was quite a shock to find out how much of the little league equipment from last year is going to need to be replaced. Knowing how bad the economy was and how strapped for cash most parents are I started looking at ways to find low cost gear for our teams. I was pleasantly suprised to find that ebay has tons of baseball bats, softball bats, catchers equipment and little league training equipment listed for sale. I figured most of it would be used little league bats that parents were selling after kids had out grown them, but there was quite a bit of new items for sale as well. I did some surfing at the local sporting goods stores and compared the clearance little league equipment they had to the prices on ebay and most of the items on ebay were still less expensive than buying from a retail store.