All Good Things Must Come to an End

Well, it's official. No more hockey for us until the fall. Unless you count Stanley Cup playoffs and since the Bruins are actually playing well, I expect we'll be watching Versus quite a bit between now and early June.

John has a strong will than I and retired for the season several weeks ago. I suppose that also had to do with his somewhat lame teammate threatening other players with lawsuits if they looked at him wrong and the refs sending his best pal home for 5 games for fighting (sort of). Oh yeah, and then there's the call of the boat. Must be like dog whistles where only men can hear that particular frequency. I on the other hand held on as long as I could, went to another fun tourney in Anchorage and played as much as I could until there was no more hockey left to play.

So now we're moving on to the other addictions... fishing, fishing and more fishing. My little sister Suzi is having bi-coastal wedding receptions - Philly in May, Spokane in September - and we're hoping to bring a haul of Alaska's finest seafood with us. Guess that means we need to start hunting and gathering to make that May deadline. Luckily the salmon regs are pretty liberal this spring with 3 kings allowed a piece and 2 rods per person through the end of June. If we can't get a few fish under those circumstances, we're in trouble!

In other news, the sun has been kind enough to grace us with its presence quite a bit in the past few days. Speaking of grace, our next door neighbors welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Katharine Grace (Kate), almost 4 weeks ago and my cousin Christa has a month or so to go before her son arrives. We are so lucky to have friends and family with great kids for us to share (and then send home). Seriously, it must be great to have your own kids, but to have a 2 year old say "I love you" all on his own and he doesn't even belong to you - that is pretty cool too! And of course, I love them dearly too (John does too, but he'd never admit it!).

So, for now, no new photos and not much to report, but the snow is slowly melting from the yard, the crocuses are blooming and the boat is ready to hit the water. There's bound to be good stuff coming our way and we'll be sure to share them with you as we go.