I woke up this morning to a dusting of snow. It’s April 22, so we are a month into spring, but, this is Alberta. We’ve had some nice warm weather, then it’s followed up by cold weather and snow. The snow won’t stick, it’s going to be about 10C today, but for now, it looks festive – if it was Christmas Day.

We had a decent enough weekend. I umpired a double header for Babe Ruth Calgary. Two excellent games. We had a 15 minute hail delay in game two. What excitement.

I didn’t go into work on Monday, I wasn’t feeling well and had absolutely no sleep from the night before. I’m feeling much better this morning and actually slept last night.

Back to the regular routine. Work, dinner, walk the dogs and head to the YMCA. I’m hardly watching any TV any longer, but that’s OK. The evenings zoom by and we often don’t have enough time to get everything done. I’m liking it.

JT and I are heading down to Crowsnest Pass on Friday. I’m going to retrieve my parents antique dresser from a friend who’s been looking after it since I left CNP almost 2 years ago now. We are then heading for dinner at the Indian restaurant and then heading home in the early evening. Should be a good day for a road trip. We’ll bring the dogs as well and will go for a walk before dinner.

This weekend is the Babe Ruth Calgary umpiring clinic. I’m helping out. It’ll be good to mentor the younger umpires. The Supervisor is going to use me to evaluate and train some of the younger recruits this summer, that’ll keep me out of trouble, maybe.

JTs birthday is May 5, we are heading to Banff May 4 and spending the night, should be an awesome trip. We are planning on taking the gondola to the top of the mountain and doing some hiking. I’m toying with the idea of bringing Hera up there with us, we’ll see I guess. The dogs are staying in a boarding/spa facility overnight. They probably won’t like it a ton, but it won’t kill em.

I guess it’ll be a bit busy over the next few weeks. I’m looking forward to the adventures.