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Monthly Archives: July 2021
What? No umpiring this weekend?
Yesterday was a busy day. It was house cleaning day to start with. I made French toast two different ways for breakfast – both with banana bread and with apple/cinnamon bread, it was excellent. I left for Lethbridge around 12:30 … Continue reading
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July will be over before I know it…
I will be heading to Ontario in 3 weeks, for a week-long vacation. It is my 50th birthday in August and I will be spending my birthday in my home province. I am also going to see my Aunt who … Continue reading
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A relaxing few days…
Yesterday was a pretty relaxing day. I drove a friend to work early in the AM and then went back to bed for a couple of hours at 7am. The hot weather that we had for a week finally broke … Continue reading
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Great weekend of baseball…
Saturday’s double header of umpiring was some of the best played baseball that I have ever umpired in Babe Ruth. The trip to Calgary was uneventful, as trips should be. It was partly cloudy with a nice breeze. The first … Continue reading
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Back to the diamond…
The heat wave in Alberta is finally over, I think. It’s quite comfortable right now and the forecast calls for more reasonable weather. Thankfully. I am heading to Calgary this morning to umpire a double-header today and one is also … Continue reading
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Heat, slo-pitch, Covid and the All-Star Game…
Yesterday was a pretty slow Canada Day for me. It meant the end of the restrictions, masks and various ridiculous rules that have been around for months (16, 17 months) due to Covid. Alberta is the first province to remove … Continue reading
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Moore’s can go to hell…
As readers know, I returned to the world of umpiring this summer. I had to buy a couple of pair of grey pants for umpiring, so, a few weeks ago, I made a trip to Lethbridge to Moore’s to get … Continue reading
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