It’s official, today is in fact the first day of spring around these parts, and what better way to celebrate that than with gingerbread tulips, and a warm gentle rain. It’s not spring without puddles or mud. Though I don’t have high Hope’s that this warm spell will last, I do expect at least one more dumping of snow about 3-4 inches worth before we are actually done with the stuff for good this year. It’s way too early to have this much (dry-ish) grass shown all over the place. You can’t have April ice puddles and slushy snow banks in the park if the snow melts by the third week of march. That’s just crazy talk. No-no, to be consistent we need long submerged icy patches in the grass surrounded by meters wide 1/8 inch deep puddles absolutely everywhere, as far as the dye can see. Clogged sewer drains full of backed up ice and grit with no flow. That’s April in Ontario, not dry grass, open roads, and above zero temperatures. April is when we DREAM of patio drinks, not when you can actually do it without a parka, toque, and an insane denial of the actual outside temperature. Come on, get with it man!
Thursday is here. Father in law is on his way back to Florida, hope he doesn’t get nabbed by ICE to make a statement about the US/Canada relations gap. Passport or not, he might potentially have some trouble. He does have a resident drivers license for his place in the Keys though, so maybe that will be ok? I don’t really know. Hope it all works out smoothly for him, and any other Canadian travellers to the US over the next four or so years.
The Leafs won their second game in a row, managing to beat Colorado whom only recently demolished the Leafs 7-3 a few nights ago. Good to see the Leafs hold things together, largely in part because Woll had a hot glove, and was making many much needed saves. The offensive portion of the team needs to step up and put more pucks in nets to help the poor guy out a little. The last few minutes of the third period were a real pressure cooker. Not to mention how many empty better chances the Leafs bungled by shooting wide right, and wide left. Those should be gimmies at this level of play. But, they won, so the criticisms calm down a smidge.
What else is new? Oh yeah my eldest daughter got her glasses yesterday, that didn’t take long at all. She seems pleased as punch to have the helping hand with reading the smart board in class. Let us hope that it does something positive so she is less stressed about school. Also we’re all paid up until the end of June for Taekwondo, so she should be able to take her red stripe belt test before we pause for the summer break. That would be a welcome break, to have the new belt in hand prior to going off for two months. That way when we head back at the end of August she won’t have forgotten any of the new red stripe patterns, because she won’t have been able to learn them yet. A fresh start at a new level come September. That’s a nice way to head into the fall. Love it. From here she has another couple of belts left to go. Red stripe, red belt, black stripe, and then a massive commitment to move ahead with black belt training. But I figure that both the red belt, and black stripe belts are 6 months or longer to achieve, so she’ll be heading into grade seven or eight before needing to decide about the much more expensive, and difficult testing for a black belt. Still have time to gut check that in a few years time. We’ve come an awful long way from white belt training, let me tell you.
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